When Sarah Palin first breezed into Washington during the highly volatile presidential race last year, bloggers rubbed their hands with glee!
The frigid Alaskan's stance on the environment, gay marriage - and a myriad of political issues - were so off-the-wall that the wild fodder was inclined to fuel enough tawdry tales to spin into the blogosphere ad nauseam until the next political fool sauntered into the Republican landscape.
At that time, I noted in one post that - in addition to gracing her lithe little beauty Queen bod with fashions funded from her political party coffers - that it was alleged, too, that the wily broad wrongfully billed the Government for expenses with the specific aim of pinching a greenback or two here and there.
Well, contrary to the cries of foul from her supporters, it has just been announced that the little spitfire engine - that couldn't - did cheat on her taxes at the expense of the public purse.
In a nutshell, Palin must pay back taxes on expenses she charged the state while living in her home outside of Anchorage instead of at the state capital.
According to state policy and federal tax laws, per diem payments must be treated as income.
Palin conveniently failed to acknowledge this glaring fact when she filed her return.
Commissioner Annette Kreitzer (Department of Administration) has confirmed the Vice Presidential hopeful's unscrupulous attempt to avoid payment of tax.
Emphasis on "Vice".
The feisty little upstart from the frozen north collected nearly $17,000.00 in per diem payments before she was named McCain's running mate in the 2008 political race.
The expenses were racked up when Palin spent three hundred nights at her home in Wasilla (with the 1st Dude, presumably) - and commuted forty miles each day to her Anchorage office - instead of taking advantage of living quarters provided for in the Governor's Mansion in Juneau.
Don't feel too badly, Sarah!
There's an Obama administration pick on Capital Hill right now who got caught neglecting to fork over scads of bucks to Uncle Sam, too.
Maybe you should have warmed up to old big ears instead of that war-monger born with the silver spoon in his mouth.
'Ya live and 'ya learn, eh?
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