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sugarpop · 02-06-2009, 07:37 PM

Well, in Obama's defense, there is only so much he (and his team) can do to find this stuff out. They are looking at people's tax records and digging into their backgrounds, and asking extensive questions, but if people don't disclose things that aren't there in black and white, there isn't much they can do about it. Yes, they did drop the ball. But it's not like Obama cheated on his taxes. Or like he condones the behavior of those people. (And I'm not really sure they DID cheat. If someone makes an honest mistake, and then repairs it, why is that necessarily a bad thing?) I owed some back taxes once for several years before I paid them. I just think people might be making too big a deal out of this.

02-06-2009, 07:37 PM	#79
sugarpop Professor Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: the edge of the abyss Posts: 1,947	Well, in Obama's defense, there is only so much he (and his team) can do to find this stuff out. They are looking at people's tax records and digging into their backgrounds, and asking extensive questions, but if people don't disclose things that aren't there in black and white, there isn't much they can do about it. Yes, they did drop the ball. But it's not like Obama cheated on his taxes. Or like he condones the behavior of those people. (And I'm not really sure they DID cheat. If someone makes an honest mistake, and then repairs it, why is that necessarily a bad thing?) I owed some back taxes once for several years before I paid them. I just think people might be making too big a deal out of this.