Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Was Ben Franklin speaking strictly of the common man when he stated the quote above, because it's hard to believe that even in Franklin's day the elites were paying all of their taxes? That it is a privilege of the wealthy to circumvent the law without consequences is certainly not a new concept. Tom Daschle, Nancy Killefer, and Tim Geithner are the most recent poster children for the "I'm not a crook, I'm just an idiot" defense. This defense was ubiquitous within the Bush Administration; when caught doing anything extra judicial, just plead ignorance/stupidity. Imagine, a treasury secretary who is not smart enough to pay all of his taxes. If the current tax code is too complicated even for this financial whiz kid what chance do we commoners have? Are you listening IRS? I am puzzled why Geithner was given a pass, yet Daschle was run out of town on a rail. The White House suppossedly received hundreds of phone calls and emails from angry Americans about Daschle; again, why Daschle and not Geithner? Perhaps it was the disproportionate media attention to the Daschle story as compared to the Geithner story. Wake up people; if you are angry about Daschle's pilfering, check out the the tax thievery going on at the corporate level. Now that is something to take to the streets about...