Mulvaney defends Trump budget's social safety net cuts

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10. Hypocritical SOB Mulvaney had multiple instances of failing to pay taxes he owed.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/513578/

President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be his White House budget chief has a tax problem.

Representative Mick Mulvaney, the nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget, told a Senate committee that he had failed to pay more than $15,000 in taxes for a household employee in the early 2000s. The voluntary disclosure came in response to a query that has become standard for presidential nominees seeking Senate confirmation: Have you ever failed to pay your taxes?

“I have come to learn, during the confirmation review process, that I failed to pay FICA and federal and state unemployment taxes on a household employee for the years 2000-2004,” Mulvaney wrote as part of his response. He said that he had since paid some $15,583 to the Internal Revenue Service in back taxes, but that the amount he owed in state taxes and possible penalties or fines was still being determined."

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He knew damn well he was cheating the employee out of benefits, as well as cheating the government out of taxes. It's not like was just Joe Schmo who didn't know any better. He was a big time tax attorney.