This didn't occur to me until pointed out. But the whole brouhaha over Daschle's taxes is yet another case of Republican hypocricy.

From Andrew Sullivan at The Atlantic:

Someone should make the point that the theory on which Daschle did not pay taxes on an extraordinary non-salary benefit provided by his employer (car and driver) is exactly the theory on which Palin did not pay taxes on an extraordinary benefit (free air travel for her children, and 60 dollar per day per diem payments for use of her own house).

Palin never paid back taxes but simply produced a squirrelly letter from her lawyers saying that someone could believe in good faith that taxes were not owed on the travel or per diems she received, so her failure to report those items as income was excusable.

Funny how it was okay for Palin but not for Daschle. To me it wasn't Okay for EITHER of them to duck their taxes, but the right wing hypocrites that dominate the Republican Party seem to think it was fine for Palin to break the same rules that they are up in arms about Daschle breaking. Daschle at leas finally paid up. Did Palin? Why was it okay for the woman they wanted to be VP to do it but not okay for a man who wanted to be Secretary of HHS?
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