Closing Arguments: Geithner's Tax Problem?

Yes, he should be disqualified.

He cannot be trusted with taxpayers money.

The IRS takes my assets or sends me to jail if I don't pay my income taxes. He fails the test for an appointment and president elect loses integrity.

Yes, he should be disqualified. He is to be the final word on taxs.

If change is to be change we can believe in, we need a person who has historically been someone who is honest regarding his own money and taxes. There is no way he should be trusted with our billions. Income tax mistakes and no payment of 34k over three years is not a one time mistake...

I think that he should be disqualilfied. I thought the Dems. promised the cleanest administration in history. It surely doesn't appear that way. Such phonies and hypocrits.

Absolutely, he should be disqualified. What is this "honest mistake"? He ought to know that he has to pay taxes on his income.

He should be disqualified!

It would be like having the fox watch the chickens. If not paying his taxes is an honest mistake,,,what other kind of "honest mistakes" has he,,or could he make?
We need well qualified professionals in office, not "friends". The leaders of all the companies that asked for bailouts,,they full well knew what was going on, we dont need that in our govt too. It's time for change,,yes,, to honesty, and sensible spending. No more pork barrel,, waste,,more check and balance,,
Thanx,,a retired tax payer, tired of my tax $$$ being wasted,,,,, JW

He is not qualified. You can not make a mistake for 4 years. He knew what he was doing. Now he wants things to be,"Do as I say do and Not as I do".
This change we already have.

Would you make an excuse for me if I don't pay my taxes for years? Forgot??

Is this really a question? To Anyone? I can hardly believe that Obama has the audacity...a word he's fond of...to suggest him knowing this and he had to know! I am disgusted.

Wow, if I didn't pay my taxes I'd lose everything and be in jail and you want to put him in charge of the Treasury???? I guess the IRS never sent him a notice of taxes due or he ignored them? You must be kidding!

They should DQ him. If they would dig they would find out the same stuff about Obama, but they won't let won't let that come to light.

"Honest mistake" my foot! He was a SENIOR official in the International Money Market! He needed H&R Block to file his taxes? Give me a break. He is going to get it, unfortunately, but he shouldn't. The highest post in the land to watch for our money must be transparent and efficient. No "oops!"

No way should this man be entrusted with any money, much less running and setting policy for the United States Treasury. Just like Wall Street and Corporate America. Whatever happened to scruples and integrity? Even Obama doesn't see any problem with this! Perhaps Obama should resurrect Diogenes to help him select appropriate candidates... Oh, I'm sorry. I guess all that "change" rhetoric muddled my brain. That ability belongs to One Entity alone. My choice? Pray... hard, 'cause no one on Earth is listening to We, The People.

If we disqualify Mr. Geither then we should also disqualify Summers, Hillary, Holder, and Emanuel. They are all tainted and should get the boot.

I suspect Obama will circle the wagons and try to protect them. For this, he will pay a political price. Just as George Bush was judged harshly for going back on his no new taxes pledge (read my lips), Obama will be judged harshly if he does not produce an administration that produces real change. This is after all what he promised during the campaign.

Change here means getting rid of politicians that have used and abused the system for personal profit. Greed and arrogance are not principles of change.

Of course he should be disqualified. How do you “forget” the price of a new car? This is just more politics as usual. They make the laws for other people, but see themselves as above the law. This IS the change Obama will give us: his buddies making money on our backs instead of Bush’s.

YES, he should be disqualified.
Also, if someone in govt does not have to pay the tax penalties, then non govt people should not have to pay tax penalties either.
Govt officers, congressman, senators and employees should not think they are above the law.

The problem with Timothy Geithner is not that he fouled up a tax return long ago but the fact that he is this behind-the-scenes, out-of-view kind of guy that people really don‘t know very well. He’s not a very affable type of guy. The new Treasury Secretary will need to be a take charge, very visible, in public view type of person, which I really don’t see in Geithner. So I say, yes oust the dude for the simple reason of some improper filing years ago. Because ultimately, Larry Summers should be the Treasury Secretary, because he’s the more genesis mind, but he can’t be because of his fouled up remarks about women and science while he was president of Harvard.