Kathleen Sebelius: Another Obama Nominee, Another Tax Problem
In preparation for her confirmation hearings, Health and Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius hired an accountant to scrub her taxes. The paid accountant discovered “errors” over three years of tax returns requiring $8,000 in back taxes.
It may not be on par with Tim “Turbo Tax” Geithner who missed paying $35,000 in self-employment taxes or come close to Tom Daschle who failed to pay $140,000 in taxes and interest. But come on! Kathleen Sebelius is the governor of Kansas and her husband is federal magistrate judge so they can afford to hire a decent tax accountant right? Maybe that would defeat the purpose… I dunno.
However seeing as how Republicans in the Kansas legislature had to inform Governor Sebelius that she would be breaking state laws by borrowing money from healthy state funds it couldn’t repay to cover shortages in other accounts, maybe her personal tax problems were “innocent errors” after all…
[...] to the AP, Kansas Gov. Kalthleen Sebelius has been confirmed to serve as the nation’s health and human services secretary. The 65-31 [...]