Comments on: Another Obama Nominee in Tax Trouble

By: Looking for Some Extra Cash This Summer? | taxgirl

Looking for Some Extra Cash This Summer? | taxgirl — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:05:47 +0000

[...] it (a la Obama protocol nominee Capricia Penavic Marshall who apparently never noticed that her $37,000 refund didn’t arrive), you should contact confirm your mailing address with the IRS. If you don’t opt for direct [...]

By: Margie

Margie — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:47:54 +0000

Shame of it all, we missed our mail in payment by one day and now we have to pay another $118.00 on top of the $4K we already sent. Go figure.

By: garagefather

garagefather — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:39:33 +0000

The idea that politicians are or will be better than the average American is naive to say the least. They are no better than the rest of us and often times they are worse. The original intent of our founding fathers was that average ordinary citizens would come to the capital and serve the people in their area. They never imagined a ruling elite like we have today. We have given them so much of our money and thus, so much of our power. They gobble up more and more and naive Americans think politicians are going to help them in the long run if we just give them more power. Naive Americans like Jon Stewart who have talked themselves into this servitude because they have a president that is above us all, better in every conceivable measure than the ordinary American. Jon is not referring to someone who is better than the drunk down the street with a stained wife beater tank top on. That guy would never get elected. No, he is referring to a person that is better than everyone. Better than the business man or the doctor. Better than the accountant and better than the nurse. He wants this man not to have the short comings that Jon knows he has. The shortcomings we all have. He wants to believe that a soul exists that has none of these flaws. He wants a messiah.

By: Wayne Phillips

Wayne Phillips — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:07:25 +0000

Great article! No bias.
I think Robert young’s response is on target. Public service once was a calling, a higher standard for the country. Butpoliticians have cheapen in it by scandel and corruption, omissions (paying of one’s taxes), commission of ‘crimes’ against fellow citizens. What the worse thing is the American people but past it off as ‘that’s politics’.
No, that’s not just politics. That is apathy as to the role of a citizen. It is the system that has developed over the past two decades, and it appears to be live and well for the future.

By: Posts about Jon Stewart as of June 22, 2009 » The Daily Parr

Posts about Jon Stewart as of June 22, 2009 » The Daily Parr — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:43:29 +0000

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By: Robert Young

Robert Young — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:57:26 +0000

“A little older, a little more confused.” I think the problem has been a gradual decline in the standards to which public servants hold themselves. Let’s face it, where we have social interaction and government, there is going to be some corruption, some malfeasance, some aggrandizement of power. What we seem to have witnessed for nearly half-a-century now is the trading of a rather idealistic vision of public service for an “as long as you don’t get caught” model. Public service has become a means, not an end, a means to better oneself, not a means to a better society. We have plenty of less than admirable role models for the new breed of public servant. The sadness here is that some of us had higher, perhaps too high, expectations that Obama could instill a new spirit, a new dedication. As with many other issues confronting his administration, this problem is much more deeply embedded, and will take a lot longer to resolve. We have to keep our expectations high and holding our public servants to the task of being better than we are. We have to hope that Obama does too.

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:02:42 +0000

Oops–left out the link to the NYT article I quoted above:
http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/24/style/first-ladies-to-the-first-lady.html

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:01:30 +0000

Hmm, according to this NYT article (written 16 years ago), Ms. Marshall is a law school graduate with superb organization skills that so greatly impressed then-First-Lady Hillary Clinton that she hired her as her executive assistant.

“Like Mrs. Clinton, Ms. Marshall is a lawyer. She is also a first generation American (her mother is Mexican, her father Croatian), raised in Cleveland. She joined the Clinton campaign after graduating law school at Case Western Reserve. Her organizational skills so impressed the First Lady that she became her executive assistant, a job she held until last fall. ”

It seems to me that if a couple consists of a doctor and a lawyer, the lawyer ought to take an at least equal share of the responsibility for following up on important details like making sure the tax return got signed and mailed off. Or, at a minimum, she shouldn’t be “passing the buck” and blaming it on an oversight by her doctor husband. If they elect to file a joint return, both are responsible for making sure that it gets filed.

The couple also strikes me as seriously out of touch with the every day life that most Americans experience if they didn’t notice the missing $37,000 refund that their return called for! That’s not exactly a minor sum.