Has Sarah Palin Lost Her Shot at Running Health and Human Services?
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 11:32 am
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (who has been well-covered by TWI) pays some back taxes.
The governor’s office wouldn’t say this week how much she owes in back taxes for meal money, or whether she intends to continue to receive the per diem allowance. As of December, she was still charging the state for meals and incidentals.
“The amount of taxes owed is a private matter,” Sharon Leighow, Palin’s spokeswoman, said in an e-mail. “If the governor collects future per diem, those documents would be a matter of public record.”
We’ve actually known about this since last October. Here’s an opportunity for conservatives to wind the anti-Daschle and anti-Geithner cases into one big case for tax simplification, but based on a quick scan of the blogs it seems like they’re ignoring it.
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Comment posted March 4, 2009 @ 9:03 am
What??? How will the flat tax that is proposed help all the rich people and corporations evade their due taxes. Lets keep the system we have now otherwise all those tax preperation firms, cpas and lawyers will lose their jobs, increasing unemployment. P.S. Sarah, you go girl, I'm singed up for your PAC news and cannot wait for 2012.
Comment posted March 5, 2009 @ 9:28 pm
She would be eaten alive now her daughter has gone against her absense of sex flatform she ran on, and made public statements. Along with her tax problems, and the fact when she snubed the CPAC bunch she didn't even make the polls with republicans than. It seems Rush is the leader, than you have Mitt running in there and even Hannity polled a few at the republican meeting. It's getting stranger every day. I think a good strong, honest, intelligent woman like michelle Obama would have a chance, but where would we find one in the republican party now? But we have Tax cheats with both repubs and Dem's, some is just honest over sights, and others are just trying to get away with what they can. palin I think is plain ignorance on the Tax laws and codes on her part. she's not the brightest turnip on the stump. She's pretty enough, just not real intelligent on such things and lacks international or national education on that level. I wish her luck however. Just don't think it will be for the Prez.
Comment posted March 6, 2009 @ 5:28 am
She would be eaten alive now her daughter has gone against her absense of sex flatform she ran on, and made public statements. Along with her tax problems, and the fact when she snubed the CPAC bunch she didn't even make the polls with republicans than. It seems Rush is the leader, than you have Mitt running in there and even Hannity polled a few at the republican meeting. It's getting stranger every day. I think a good strong, honest, intelligent woman like michelle Obama would have a chance, but where would we find one in the republican party now? But we have Tax cheats with both repubs and Dem's, some is just honest over sights, and others are just trying to get away with what they can. palin I think is plain ignorance on the Tax laws and codes on her part. she's not the brightest turnip on the stump. She's pretty enough, just not real intelligent on such things and lacks international or national education on that level. I wish her luck however. Just don't think it will be for the Prez.
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