This news makes the fact that Congress confirmed Tim Geithner as head of the Treasury Department even more egregious and hypocritical. Did you know that IRS employees can lose their jobs if they fail to report even a few hundred dollars of income? And yet their boss failed to pay his taxes for multiple years. Employees are, understandably, pissed off. 

The Treasury secretary, who oversees the IRS, didn’t pay all his taxes. Neither did five other top nominees for the Obama administration, or their spouses.

Now, as Wednesday’s tax deadline looms, some Americans are wondering why they should comply with the arcane requirements of the Internal Revenue Service when top administration officials failed to do the same. Even some IRS employees are upset at what they see as a double standard. …

“Our members are upset and angry,” said Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, referring to concern bubbling up within the IRS over unusually strict rules that can cost agents their jobs if they make a mistake.

In some cases, IRS employees have lost jobs for simply filing a late return or failing to report a few hundred dollars of interest income.