Thursday, February 05, 2009

Karma?

Rep. Hilda Solis is the latest Obama Administration cabinet nominee to run into tax problems. (WaPo)

Today, in was reported that Obama's nominee for labor secretary, Rep. Hilda Solis, has run into a little glitch of her own.

A Senate committee today abruptly canceled a session to consider President Obama's nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be labor secretary in the wake of a report saying that her husband yesterday paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business -- including liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.
Glenn Reynolds has two thoughts:
(1) Don’t any of these people pay their taxes? And (2) Is this, like, some kind of karmic payback for all the Joe-the-plumber tax business?