Here's our Twitter topic of the day:
Two Obama nominees this week took themselves out of the running for White House posts when tax errors came to light. Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health secretary, owed $140k and Nancy Killefer, a former McKinsey consultant chosen to reform the government budget, failed to pay employment tax for her household help.
All this after our new treasury secretary, Timothy Geithner, was shown to have underpaid his taxes while working for the International Monetary Fund.
Is Obama's team sufficiently vetting his nominees? And does the bad news undermine his goal of bringing change to Washington?
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UPDATE: Comments from Twitter users
Alecjr said:
the US tax code is impossible to navigate even w/ a CPA at your side & good people get caught up doing dumb things, fix the IRS
hoorayforadlai said:
obama screwed up IMPEACHED
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