{"id":540,"date":"2009-02-02T00:27:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T04:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=540"},"modified":"2009-02-03T15:50:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T19:50:39","slug":"peons-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2009\/02\/02\/peons-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Peons Have To Pay Taxes (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First Tim Geithner,<\/a> and now Tom Daschle.<\/a> Anyone else getting tired of rich, powerful people failing to pay taxes, saying “Oops! Sorry! My bad!” and getting away with it?<\/p>\n

Geithner’s already gotten his big promotion to Treasury Secretary in Obama’s Cabinet. And I’m betting that after pretending to give Tom Daschle a hard time, the Senate<\/a> will soon give its former Majority Leader his Health and Human Services Secy gig too. <\/p>\n

Just one question: May I join the Tax Defaulters Club, if I promise to pay up in the event I’m ever tapped for high office? <\/p>\n

I didn’t think so.<\/p>\n

Only Peons Have To Pay Taxes (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

I’m so sick of political sleaze
\nWho think they can do as they please.
\nPay their taxes? Not them!
\nBe they right-wing or Dem,
\nWith big friends their promotion’s a breeze.<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Daschle has withdrawn.<\/a> Good! How about Howard Dean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First Tim Geithner, and now Tom Daschle. Anyone else getting tired of rich, powerful people failing to pay taxes, saying “Oops! Sorry! My bad!” and getting away with it? Geithner’s already gotten his big promotion to Treasury Secretary in Obama’s Cabinet. And I’m betting that after pretending to give Tom Daschle a hard time, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,81,52,154,6,7,3,12,45,459,460],"tags":[461,462,464,463,417],"class_list":["post-540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barack-obama","category-democrats-satire","category-health-satire","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-politics","category-senate","category-tax-budget-humor","category-tim-geithner","category-tom-daschle","tag-daschle","tag-geithner","tag-health-secretary","tag-obamas-cabinet","tag-treasury"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":554,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540\/revisions\/554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}