Should Tim Geithner become Treasury Secretary?

**The King Of Peasants** · January 21, 2009, 03:25 PM

Should we have someone managing the treasury and bailout money who can't even keep his taxes in check? Honestly I can't see why he gets such a free pass.

**~~Barack Hussein Obama~~** · January 21, 2009, 03:52 PM

Yeah I think he's a stand up guy.

**Pickle_mole** · January 22, 2009, 01:06 AM

Originally Posted by Barack Hussein Obama

Yeah I think he's a stand up guy.

Ya a stand up guy that knows our tax system SO well he forgot to pay his own taxes! i mean we gotta have this guy, right? Oh and i like how he had to have a closed doors hearing, whats wrong Hussein? don't want the public knowing?

**Sphere** · January 22, 2009, 01:20 AM

From the reports I heard, it was some goofy rule that said he was technically self employed when he was working for the IMF, so he had to pay social security and medicare separately, it wasn't automatically taken out of his salary.

In any even, it wasn't a straight forward thing. But yeah, that is rather embarrassing, especially as treasury secretary.

**Big War Bird** · January 22, 2009, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by Sphere

From the reports I heard, it was some goofy rule that said he was technically self employed when he was working for the IMF, so he had to pay social security and medicare separately, it wasn't automatically taken out of his salary.

In any even, it wasn't a straight forward thing. But yeah, that is rather embarrassing, especially as treasury secretary.

No this is a very straight forward thing. An 18 year old general contractor with no high school education understands you have to pay the self employment tax.

He also tried to deduct from his tax liability the expense of his daughter's summer camp, which I can somewhat understand.

**Big War Bird** · January 21, 2009, 04:13 PM

I think anyone in tax trouble ought to be able to get the kind of break he got.

**danzig** · January 21, 2009, 06:35 PM

Not being able to handle one's own finances automatically disqualifies (imo) a man from handling the largest economy on the planet.

**Hunter Makoy** · January 21, 2009, 10:01 PM

well that and since we already had a man in who was an expert on the Great Depression i think Obama should have done the same thing he did with the DHS position and leave the TS in for a while to help transition anything. I haven't heard a whole lot on Obama's pick for TS, but so far it doesn't sound good at all.

**Hunter Makoy** · January 22, 2009, 01:47 AM

i don't care if it was the most complicated tax bracket he could be in, he better know this

backwards and forwards. And i think its gonna come out he knew about it, something about the statute of limitations running out.

**The King Of Peasants** · January 26, 2009, 05:54 PM

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...ury-secretary/
Well I doubt we can expect much economic improvement over the next 4 years...

**Admiral Piett** · January 26, 2009, 06:15 PM

I admit, this is kind of a stupid move. If someone is showing problems before he begins his job then it's not a good sign.

**~~Exarch~~** · January 26, 2009, 06:55 PM

Originally Posted by The King Of Peasants

Should we have someone managing the treasury and bailout money who can't even keep his taxes in check? Honestly I can't see why he gets such a free pass.

no