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Corrupt WH Tax Deadbeats Skate Scrutiny

7 months ago, 36 Obama aides owed $833,000 in back taxes

How embarrassing this must be for President Obama, whose major speech theme so far this campaign season has been that every single American, no matter how rich, should pay their "fair share" of taxes.

Because how unfair -- indeed, un-American -- it is for an office worker like, say, Warren Buffet's secretary to dutifully pay her taxes, while some well-to-do people with better educations and higher incomes end up paying a much smaller tax rate.

Or, worse, skipping their taxes altogether. A new report just out from the Internal Revenue Service reveals that 36 of President Obama's executive office staff owe the country $833,970 in back taxes. These people working for Mr. Fair Share apparently haven't paid any share, let alone their fair share.

Previous reports have shown how well-paid Obama's White House staff is, with 457 aides pulling down more than $37 million last year. That's up seven workers and nearly $4 million from the Bush administration's last year. Nearly one-third of Obama's aides make more than $100,000 with 21 being paid the top White House salary of $172,200, each.

The IRS' 2010 delinquent tax revelations come as part of a required annual agency report on federal employees' tax compliance. Turns out, an awful lot of folks being paid by taxpayers are not paying their own income taxes.

The report finds that thousands of federal employees owe the country more than $3.4 billion in back taxes. That's up 3% in the past year.

(full story from 1/26/12 at investors.com)

William James, ICBM, Welfare Reform As We Know It

On this day: August 26

The USSR announces the successful test of an ICBM – a "super long distance intercontinental multistage ballistic rocket ... a few days ago," according to the Soviet news agency, ITAR-TASS (1957)

The Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago (1968)

Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, bolstering reelection bid (1996)

President Barack Obama returns to Washington, D.C., head of Hurricane Irene, cutting short his annual presidential summer vacation on Martha's Vineyard (2011)

b: Anna Ulyanova (1864), Ivan Mihailov (1896); d: William James (1910), Charles Lindbergh (1974)

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