Another Day, Another Dem Tax Cheat

Maybe one of our overpaid network news anchors could ask President Obama why he insists on raising taxes, while his best and brightest nominees tend to be the ones who don’t pay them?

Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius recently corrected three years of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding “unintentional errors”—the latest tax troubles for an Obama administration nominee.

The Kansas governor explained the changes to senators in a letter dated Tuesday that the administration released. She said they involved charitable contributions, the sale of a home and business expenses.

Sebelius said she filed the amended returns as soon as the errors were discovered by an accountant she hired to scrub her taxes in preparation for her confirmation hearings. She and her husband, Gary, a federal magistrate judge in Kansas, paid a total of $7,040 in back taxes and $878 in interest to amend returns from 2005-2007.

Well, I guess it was a good thing Governor Sebelius was nominated or she’d never have paid them. And one question to the IRS. Why do they withhold the returns of ordinary people who owe back taxes, but influential people can go years without paying?

I know. Don’t go there.