{"id":2375,"date":"2009-01-23T10:05:25","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T15:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=2375"},"modified":"2009-01-23T11:15:43","modified_gmt":"2009-01-23T16:15:43","slug":"on-geithner-and-his-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2009\/01\/23\/on-geithner-and-his-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"On Geithner and His Taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The moment I heard the nature of Timothy Geithner’s tax issue explained, I felt like I knew something about the man.\u00c2\u00a0 James Fallows explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I do not believe, and will never believe, that his failure to pay his own self-employment tax while at the IMF was an “oversight” or a “mistake.” I have many many friends who have worked for this and similar organizations.<\/p>\n

[ . . . ]<\/p>\n

I could go on with details but I’ll just say: if this were a situation more average Americans had experienced personally, he would not dare make his “mistake” excuse because everyone would say, “Are you kidding me???”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This tracks perfectly with my own reaction, based on my experience in a town full of people who have similar employment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It seems clear that this issue isn’t going to derail him, and maybe that’s okay:<\/p>\n

I accept the argument that he is a necessary part of what has to be the best possible team America can assemble at this moment. But I don’t like the fact that he is obviously dissembling on this point, and that he obviously was not playing it straight over a long period of years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keep that in mind, in the coming years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The moment I heard the nature of Timothy Geithner’s tax issue explained, I felt like I knew something about the man.\u00c2\u00a0 James Fallows explains: I do not believe, and will never believe, that his failure to pay his own self-employment tax while at the IMF was an “oversight” or a “mistake.” I have many many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc","category-policy","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2375\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}