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04-12-2009, 10:46 AM

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Well I guess Franken gets to join the elite club in D.C. after all! Who would have thunk it.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com...-were-the-irs/

Maybe it is a requirement to have not paid your taxes to be a public servant of the new majority.

Hardly a one-party issue.

Politico did a survey of all 99 senators earlier this year, asking about their taxes.

The results:

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While a handful of Senators noted that they have found errors in past tax returns, resulting in payment of back taxes...

31 Democratic Senators returned complete surveys, compared with only 12 Republican Senators. Further, 9 Republican Senators returned surveys declining to answer the questions, compared with only 3 Democrats who returned surveys and declined to answer. 2 Republicans returned incomplete surveys. 22 Dems and 18 GOP Senators have not responded. (Additionally, Joe Lieberman has not responded and Bernie Sanders declined to answer.)

Nearly three times as many Democrats returned completed surveys - and nearly three times as many Republicans declined to answer the questions about their taxes.