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To: Road Walker who wrote (453214)	2/2/2009 9:25:06 AM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1572613

If you audited every tax return with gross income over 200k my WAG is 75% would have something wrong. Mistakes are one thing. In these instances where liberals cheated, they were INTENTIONAL. There is no way these were "mistakes". The other thing significant about these is that the errors were material in amount. Most returns will, as you say, have errors, or for that matter, differences arising from varying judgments. It is complicated stuff, and mistakes happen. But the number having SUBSTANTIAL errors is far fewer and the number having intentional misstatements far fewer still. These misstatements were clearly intentional. While Geithner's original misstatement may have been a "mistake", he made a decision not to fix it after he found out about the mistake. Daschle knew he had a problem, else it wouldn't have come up when he reviewed it with his accountant. There is a difference between tax avoidance, which is legal, and tax evasion, which is not. These people EVADED taxes.