Oops! It turns out that Tom Daschle has his own tax
problem.
Reports ABC News:
ABC News has learned that the nomination of former Senator
Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., to be President Obama's
Secretary of Health and Human Services has hit a traffic snarl
on its way through the Senate Finance Committee.
The controversy deals with a car and driver lent to Daschle by
a wealthy Democratic friend, a chauffeur service the former
senator used for years without declaring it on his taxes.
It remains an open question as to whether this is a "speed
bump," as a Democratic Senate ally of Daschle put it, or
something more damaging.
I find it easier to believe that this was a genuine oversight
than I do Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's case. But
still, it doesn't look good. Why do the folks who want to
raise our taxes seem to have such a hard time paying their own?
About the Author
Doug Bandow is a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute and the Senior Fellow in International Religious Persecution at the Institute on Religion and Public Policy. A former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan, he is author of Beyond Good Intentions: A Biblical View of Politics (Crossway).
