President Obama has done a lot of talking the last year about Americans paying their fair share of taxes.
Apparently he means, Do as I say, not as my staff does.
A new report from the Internal Revenue Service has just revealed that 40 of Obama's White House aides owe their employer, the federal government, a total of $333,485 in back taxes.
At least that's an improvement from last year, when the White House aides owed more than twice as much in back taxes. Maybe, since the IRS knows where they work, and it's conveniently just a hop skip and a jump from their office, they're trying a little harder to collect... Just kidding.
This is the third straight year that the chief executive of the United States has been unable to get his own staff members to keep up with a citizen's legal income tax obligations. to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes owed. All this while Obama has made such rhetorical hay about corporations and the wealthy paying their fair share.
In its previous report the annual IRS audit accounting found that 36 of the Democrat's White House aides owed $833,000 in back taxes. The year before it was 41 Obama staff members owing $830,000. In the past year Obama's teleprompter has been on automatic pilot with oft-repeated demands that Americans and profitable corporate giants pay their fair share of taxes.
If they were to collect that money they could pay the Secret Service Staff to keep the White House tours going for another few weeks; maybe even long enough to solve the sequester. That, and a little donation from the
Fox New anchors might keep them going indefinitely.
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