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By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailySince 1950, Americans with household help have been required to pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for workers earning more than $50 in a calendar quarter (plus unemployment insurance for workers earning $1,000). For many years, compliance was difficult and time consuming and, for the IRS, enforcement was a low priority. In 1986, new immigration laws made it illegal to hire undocumented immigrants, even in private homes. Both laws were widely disregarded. Public awareness of and compliance with these legal requirements increased dramatically in 1993 when yet to be inaugurated President ...
Meg Whitman Far From Only Politician With Housekeeper Troubles
By David Knowles - AOL News(Sept. 29) -- Good help (that won't come back and cause you trouble as you seek political office) is hard to find. Today, California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman's former housekeeper, an undocumented worker, held a news conference to detail her mistreatment "as a longtime, Latina household employee" in the Republican nominee and former eBay CEO's home. The veracity of the claims remains uncertain. The housekeeper is represented by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, who Whitman's campaign has called a "shameful manipulator." The scenario in which a prospective politician's former ...
Nannygate Nabs Another Nominee
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyThe revelation that President-elect Barack Obama's nominee to be Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, employed an illegal immigrant as a nanny and failed to pay Social Security taxes on her salary until he was nominated is only the latest in a string of similar discoveries concerning Cabinet nominees dating back at least fifteen years to the first Clinton Administration. Obama tried to dismiss Geithner's problems today, as all presidents-elect do; but also like past presidents-elect, Obama may find that nanny problems are particularly difficult for Cabinet nominees to overcome.President ...
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