Why pay your taxes?

The nominee for Secretary of the Treasury that oversees the IRS has shown by his deeds that paying taxes is optional. Timothy Geithner has apologized for his “honest” mistake of failing to pay $34,000 in self employment payroll taxes. Now I know a lot of self employed people, and I know that if they didn’t pay their taxes it wouldn’t garner them a nomination to Secretary of the Treasury, it would more likely nominate them to the top of the prosecution for tax evasion list of the IRS.

It wasn’t one mistake but rather his evasion of taxes lasted many years. The question now is will he be nominated in spite of this evidence? This is the guy who will now be in charge of the trillions of dollars of debt we are about to incur.

He has suggested we create a “bad” bank that will house all of the bad debt so that the other banks can lend more money to people that will not pay it back which will end up making the “bad” bank bigger. This is ludicrous. We need to pay down debt not continue the activity that gave us this unmanageable debt that is the lead anchor of our economic ship.

So I say if we nominate this guy we follow his example and not pay our taxes. This way the government has no money to implement this idiocy. It is simply tough love for our government representatives. They can’t help themselves so it is up to us to cut off their supply to end their addiction. Let’s do it before they get any other “big” ideas. Just a thought…