The Guy Rick Snyder picked to collect taxes in Detroit doesn't pay them!

[RapBrown]

That's nice; the guy Rick Snyder picked to collect taxes in Detroit doesn't pay them...this is just too much http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130316/METRO01/303160352/ … …

[Cincinnati_Kid]

Let's not jump to conclusions here.

[MidTownMs]

Let's not jump to conclusions here.

Why? Jumping to conclusions is a lot more fun than waiting for the facts.

[illwill]

Let's not jump to conclusions here.

Why not? There isn't anything good about this.

[cla1945]

I am amazed that the "Nerd" didn't do his homework. To put a man in charge of a city with financial problems who can't pay his own bills is ludicrious. Snyder needs to get rid of him and find someone else.

Is there anyone out there with any integrity?

[MidTownMs]

I am amazed that the "Nerd" didn't do his homework. To put a man in charge of a city with financial problems who can't pay his own bills is ludicrious. Snyder needs to get rid of him and find someone else.

Is there anyone out there with any integrity?

That person's mother hasn't been born yet.

[Honky Tonk]

That's nice; the guy Rick Snyder picked to collect taxes in Detroit doesn't pay them...this is just too much http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130316/METRO01/303160352/ … …

Neither does Joann Watson and look how many times she's been reelected.

[RapBrown]

Eh, you realize that's the problem, Kevyn Orr was never elected?

[DetroitPlanner]

Neither does Joann Watson and look how many times she's been reelected.

She was re-elected once.

[Honky Tonk]

She was re-elected once.

Really? I guess it just seems longer.

[Honky Tonk]

Of course I do. Do you realize he was put in place because the people that WERE elected just can't seem to get their act together?

[RapBrown]

and so putting in a man that doesn't pay his taxes.... Never mind, you're too sharp for me.

[Honky Tonk]

and so putting in a man that doesn't pay his taxes.... Never mind, you're too sharp for me.

Well, he claims he's going to take care of it, so let's see what happens. Any word on when Ms. Watson plans on paying hers?

[Zug]

In a world without any gray area, true, he's a man that "doesn't pay taxes." But to me it sounds like an honest oversight. I mean, he paid $16,000 the day after he found out. Did the liens disrupt his ability to restructure Chrysler?

[cla1945]

He claims he is going to take care of it after the fact. How many of us have forgotten to pay taxes when they are due? He got caught, hense "he's taking care of it", otherwise, he would still owe if no one found out.

[1953]

I've been trying to understand what taxes I am suppose to pay as someone who recently hired a nanny, and I've been told by many people that a large number of people don't realize or actively ignore paying taxes on childcare. The government treats you like an employer when you hire a nanny, but most people don't think of it this way.

[Cliffy]

He claims he is going to take care of it after the fact. How many of us have forgotten to pay taxes when they are due? He got caught, hense "he's taking care of it", otherwise, he would still owe if no one found out.

I don't tend to forget taxes from a few years ago let alone this year.

[daddeeo]

As Homer Simpson says,'Doh!"

[Motor City Sam]

Just as Pugh's inability to handle his finances contributed to my decision to not vote for him, Orr's tax issue raises a flag, also. Hard to believe he "forgot" or it "slipped through the cracks" considering he had four liens placed on his home since 2009. Seems like that would have been a pretty good reminder.

[coracle]

I'm sure the Gov. would have known that if you chose a Democrat it's to be expected; it goes with the territory. We've just had four years of a Treasury Secretary who came into office as a Tax Delinquent. Rules that Democrats administer are not supposed to apply to them; their job is to extract money from people that have it and give it to people that say they don't have it. It's called Re-Distribution; and if they consider taking from themselves and giving it back as a zero sum transaction who's to argue over a trifle?. I like what I've seen so far of Kevyn Orr and I'm sure he's up to subtle ways to extract money from Detroit Citizens and Bondholders alike. Check what he did for/to Chrysler Bondholders to achieve his signature achievement. He is a good choice for EFM.

[noise]

I'm sure the Gov. would have known that if you chose a Democrat it's to be expected; it goes with the territory. We've just had four years of a Treasury Secretary who came into office as a Tax Delinquent. Rules that Democrats administer are not supposed to apply to them; their job is to extract money from people that have it and give it to people that say they don't have it. It's called Re-Distribution; and if they consider taking from themselves and giving it back as a zero sum transaction who's to argue over a trifle?. I like what I've seen so far of Kevyn Orr and I'm sure he's up to subtle ways to extract money from Detroit Citizens and Bondholders alike. Check what he did for/to Chrysler Bondholders to achieve his signature achievement. He is a good choice for EFM.

This is 100% indisputable, in the same way that all Republicans are racist pedophiles. Just facts.

[coracle]

This is 100% indisputable, in the same way that all Republicans are racist pedophiles. Just facts.

When you've got nothing to say it's best not to publish anything so nobody knows; instead of making your noise so everybody knows.

[Not In MI]

Shouldnt the correct title for this thread be "Yet Another Democrat Appointed to a Position Of Setting Economic Policy Is Found to Not Have Paid Their Taxes"

[Det_ard]

Shouldnt the correct title for this thread be "Yet Another Democrat Appointed to a Position Of Setting Economic Policy Is Found to Not Have Paid Their Taxes"

To wit:

On November 24, 2008, President-elect Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate Geithner to be Treasury Secretary.^[28][29] During his confirmation, it was disclosed that Geithner had not paid $35,000 in Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes from 2001 through 2004 while working for the International Monetary Fund.^[30]

The IMF, as an international agency, did not withhold payroll taxes, but instead reimbursed the usual employer responsibility of these taxes to employees. Geithner received the reimbursements and paid the amounts received to the government, but had not paid the remaining half which would normally have been withheld from his pay. The issue, as well as other errors relating to past deductions and expenses, were noted during a 2006 audit by the Internal Revenue Service^{[31][32][33][34]}

Geithner subsequently paid the additional taxes owed,^[35] and was charged $15,000 interest, but was not fined for late payment.^[36] In a statement to the Senate Finance Committee, Geithner called the tax issues "careless," "avoidable," and "unintentional" errors.^[35] Geithner testified that he used software to prepare his 2001 return, but that the tax errors were his own responsibility.^[37][38]

Geithner was sworn in as Treasury Secretary on January 26, 2009


On January 26, 2009, the U.S. Senate confirmed Geithner's appointment by a vote of 60–34.^[39][40] Geithner was sworn in as Treasury Secretary by Vice President Joe Biden and witnessed by President Barack Obama.^[41]

Hey, if Obama thinks it's OK if the US Treasury Secretary had a little tax issue, it must be OK for a city EM.

[Zacha341]

Hah! Pesky tax evasion doesn't seem to abide partisan boundaries... we can see that up close and personal from the recent Kilpatrick and father court case!

Hey, if Obama thinks it's OK if the US Treasury Secretary had a little tax issue, it must be OK for a city EM.