According to Investors Business Daily federal workers have failed to pay more than $3.4 billion dollars in taxes last year.
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.
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