Here’s another one. The husband of Labor secretary nominee Hilda Solis, Sam Sayyad, very quickly paid up a tax liens totalling about 6400 against his business. I guess this gesture was to celebrate his wife’s nomination. Apparently the couple was unaware of any tax liens against Sayyad’s business, but were inspired by the Deity to visit the Los Angeles tax office to make things right just after Hilda was informed that she would be nominated. (Apparently USA Today served as messnger of the Deity.) Records at the county recorders office show liens totaling $7,630.57, not including interest, so I guess that there’s a bit more to pay. And as with Daschle, this is probably the tip of the iceberg.
Again, I certainly do not have trouble with people attempting to snooker the IRS, because this agency is rapacious. It’s good clean fun, and the sport of most business owners. However, the liberal party which is expecting us to pay ever increasing taxes and accept further government encroachment into our private lives needs to live up to the demands which it places on us.
