Money For Nothing (Part 89,492)

clipped from www.powerlineblog.com That wasn't the problem, though. The problem was that HIndery also provided Daschle with a limousine and driver. Daschle was used to having a car and driver at his disposal when he was a Senator, so it apparently didn't occur to him that someone must be paying for it and thereby conferring a taxable benefit on him. That's one of his tax problems; another is that he forgot to mention $83,333 in taxable consulting income to the IRS. (Could you forget about $83,000 in income? If not, you're much too poor to be a Democrat in Washington.) Eventually, Daschle apparently tumbled to these issues, but put off dealing with them until after he was nominated for the HHS post. Who knows? If Obama had decided not to nominate him, Daschle could have kept the money. Daschle has created such a bad odor that even Democratic journalists are starting to notice.