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So people like me, entrepreneurs who have not always filed on-time, also disqualified from office. Got it.

Help me understand you, Andy. What are you getting at? That he owed back-taxes? I agree. He was given extra money at the time he incurred the taxes to cover the taxes. Agreed completely. Tim Geithner owed back-taxes.

Lots of people owe back-taxes. Plenty of Republican businesspeople think its their moral duty not to pay taxes as long as possible.

You're a tax cheat when you reorganize yourself as a shell S-Corporation, claim that a reasonable annual salary is $5,000, and then take your entire annual income as a distribution. Thousands of people do this, most will never get caught.

I have a hard time believing that simply not paying what you owe, or even filing an incorrect tax return, makes you a "cheat". Lots of people get audited. Many of them will owe. Most of those people are not cheaters.



> He was given extra money at the time he incurred the taxes to cover the taxes.

You keep "forgeting" the part where he was told what that money was for.

And yes, someone who can't manage to do their taxes shouldn't be in charge of the IRS. Other jobs maybe, but the IRS, nope.




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