John Edwards is right -- there really are two Americas. There's taxpayers, and then there's Democrats

Please consider the following data points:

• Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in back taxes last year, data show:

Capitol Hill employees owed $9.3 million in overdue taxes at the end of last year, a sliver of the $1 billion owed by federal workers nationwide but one with potential political ramifications for members of Congress... The average unpaid tax bill is $12,787 among the Senate's delinquent taxpayers and $15,498 among those working in the House.

• 41 Obama White House aides owe the IRS $831,000 in back taxes -- and they're not alone

We now know that federal employees across the nation owe fully $1 billion in back taxes to the Internal Revenue Service... You may recall early on that Tom Daschle was the president's top pick to run the Health and Human Services Department. But it turned out the former Democratic senator, who was un-elected from South Dakota in 2004, owed something like $120,000 to the IRS for things from his subsequent benefactor that he just forgot to pay taxes on. You know how that is. $120G's here or there. So he dropped out.

And then we learned this guy Timothy Geithner owed something like $42,000 in back taxes and penalties to the IRS, which is one of the agencies that he'd be in charge of as secretary of the Treasury. The fine fellow who's supposed to know about handling everyone else's money... And under Geithner's expert guidance the U.S. economy has been, well, wow! Just look at it.

Privacy laws prevent release of individual tax delinquents' names. But we do know that as of the end of 2009, 41 people inside Obama's very own White House owe the government they're allegedly running a total of $831,055 in back taxes. That would cover a lot of special chocolate desserts in the White House Mess.

A while back I suggested renaming the Democrat Party The Funocrat Party, because they're the source of non-stop excitement for the beleaguered little guy. But, whatever you do, don't call them taxpayers.


Related:
• Uncle Sam Wants YOU...to pay your taxes