Don't want to pay your taxes?

I actually called Olympia Snowe's Maine office yesterday and asked if I could the same deals that nominees to Obama's Cabinet were receiving. (she voted in committee to confirm Geithner) After all, I have 5 children to feed and clothe and don't have 2 nannies or a driver. But no, that deal seems to be available only for Democrats who want average Americans to be "patriotic" and pay MORE taxes.

On the other hand, perhaps we could flush out all the tax dodgers in Washington, DC by looking closely at the rest of Obama's nominees.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year and a half to pay employment taxes on household help, has withdrawn her candidacy to be the first chief performance officer for the federal government, the White House said Tuesday.

When her selection was announced by Obama on Jan. 7, The Associated Press disclosed that in 2005 the District of Columbia government had filed a $946.69 tax lien on her home for failure to pay unemployment compensation tax on household help.


Obama's first choice for commerce secretary, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, took his name out of consideration when his confirmation appeared headed toward complications because of a grand jury investigation over how state contracts were issued to political donors.

More recently, Timothy Geithner was confirmed as Treasury secretary despite belatedly paying $34,000 in income taxes, and Tom Daschle is still waiting to see if his late payment of more than $128,000 in income taxes will harm his nomination to be health and human services secretary.

Killefer and her husband, an economics professor, had a teenage son and daughter, but she had two nannies and a personal assistant to run her life when she was on the road, she told Harvard business students back then.