The Accountability Factor
A growing list of "honest mistakes" by Democrats is leading this op-ed author to ask, "What does it take to disqualify Democrats from public service?" If tax evasion, suborning forgery and using campaign funds for personal expenses ain’t enough, what is? As commenter "socrates" writes:
Failure to pay $150K in taxes normally gets one in front of a Tax Court judge with the IRS burning your house down.
If you’re a Democrat it gets you a Cabinet position.
Both sides have corruption in their ranks, make no mistake about it. But as I’ve said multiple times in the past, it’s not about corruption; it’s about accountability. On the whole, Republicans tend to remove those involved with corruption, while Democrats, when they do anything, pass a motion and continue with the business of the day. Read those links for a number of examples.
Nominating them for cabinet positions, right "socrates"?
Man is sinful; that’s just the way it is. But if he’s not held accountable for his actions when he breaks the law, do we expect that we’ll have less law-breaking?
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Although it is making it more apparent why Democrats in Washington have no trouble raising taxes, even on themselves. They don’t pay them anyway, so what do they care?
I’m kidding…. (sort of)
Heh, indeed. I saw a political cartoon just today with a Republican (elephant) standing at podium saying, “This stimulus bill gives tax refunds to people who don’t pay taxes!” Behind him, Geithner and Daschle were saying, “Sounds good to me.”
Here I just thought I was being funny but in my daily perusal of National Review Online I saw that Jim Geraghty made the exact same point I did. Funny, indeed.