WHO: Prospective Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
WHAT: Geithner, who would be in charge of, among other agencies, the Internal Revenue Service if he is confirmed, failed to pay about $34,000 in taxes from 2001 to 2004.
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WHY IT’S A BAD IDEA: By now he’s paid it all back, and he said it was all a mistake. Huh? Wait just a minute here — the man can make a $34,000 mistake with his own taxes and we want him in charge of the country’s tax system? We’re done with bunglers. Besides, if he can’t keep track of $34,000, how is going to be held accountable for billions of our tax dollars?
WHERE TO LEARN MORE: Visit
www.ustreas.gov
www.ustreas.gov
Today’s brigh bulb: Get well letters
Fifth-graders from City Neighbors Charter School sent letters and cards to Examiner reporter Luke Broadwater to give to Marvin Edmonds, 45, who was shot inside a Northeast Baltimore Chinese carryout in August while two girls laughed and others stepped around him to get food. The letters send a message of hope not only to Edmonds, but to a city badly in need of good neighbors. Thank you City Neighbors students for setting an example for all of us about how to help those in need.
Quote of the day
“More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.” Martin Luther King Jr., in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” from April 16, 1963.
