trump budget pick paid no taxes on nanny, didn’t think she was doing real work

[christiefan915]

Hypocrisy on parade...

Rep. Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s nominee for director of Office of Management and Budget, has a history of taking a hard line against government employees and public servants who don’t pay their taxes...

One would think that, given his commitment to this cause, Mulvaney would be awash in shame and contrition for the recent discovery that he owes $15,000 in unpaid taxes for a nanny he and his wife hired to help take care of their triplets between 2000 and 2004. Nah. Instead, he’s writing the situation off to what he appears to consider a minor and forgivable blind spot: not valuing care work as real work. This is a worldview with misogynistic and racist roots, and it shouldn’t be easily forgiven.

Here’s his defense from Tuesday’s confirmation hearing:

"In 2000, we had triplets. When they came home, we hired someone to help my wife take care of the children. In our minds, she was a babysitter. She did not live with us. She did not spend the night there. She did not cook. She did not clean. She did not educate the children; she helped my wife with the kids."

You hear that? She just helped take care of three newborns who eventually became three infants and then three toddlers. Who could blame him for overlooking such under-the-radar, easy-peasy work when figuring out who to treat like a legitimate employee come tax season? It’s not like she made them a pot roast or taught their kids algebra, for heaven’s sake. And, so confusingly, every evening she would leave her job and then, get this, return the next morning."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor...n_t_think.html

[cawacko]

It's racism and mysoginist? I guess it is slate writing the article. I have a cleaning lady who comes once a month. Am i a racist for not paying taxes to the gov't for her?

[christiefan915]

It's racism and mysoginist? I guess it is slate writing the article. I have a cleaning lady who comes once a month. Am i a racist for not paying taxes to the gov't for her?

It's the idea that being a nanny doesn't have real value. I understand the misogynistic part, not too sure about the racist part unless it refers to how blacks in times past (roots) worked mostly in subservient positions.

I can't speak to your cleaning lady. If she works through an agency they're responsible for her taxes. I don't know enough about it.

[Ass Man]

she is not a nanny if she didn't live there, she was a sitter. Do you idiots pay taxes for all your baby sitters?

[christiefan915]

she is not a nanny if she didn't live there, she was a sitter. Do you idiots pay taxes for all your baby sitters?

Child please. "Nanny" is a job description, not a living arrangement. Get your head out of Victorian England and join the 21st century.