Come to Think of It, I’m Feeling a Bit “Non-Filerish”, too.

I have the feeling that if Barack Obama’s elected President, we’re going to see this reach epidemic proportion.

Gov. Paterson’s chief of staff now says he owed nearly $300,000 in back taxes, $100,000 more than was previously known – and his lawyer blamed the problem on “non-filer syndrome.”

Charles O’Byrne’s attorney, Richard Kestenbaum, mentioned the virtually unheard-of ailment at a briefing for reporters intended to quell the firestorm surrounding O’Byrne’s failure to file income-tax returns from 2001 to 2005.

O’Byrne, 49, a former Jesuit priest with close ties to the Kennedy family, has already blamed his neglect to file – first reported by The Post – on clinical depression.

Kestenbaum said yesterday O’Byrne also had “non-filer syndrome.”

“Many times, that syndrome causes them not to be able to file their tax returns,” he explained.

O’Byrne is the Chief of Staff of New York Governor David Patterson, a Democrat.

Tut tut, Governor. It looks bad for the cause when your own government fatcats balk at forking over their cash so the disadvantaged mouthbreathers in flyover country don’t have to live in mud huts and eat ramen noodles all the livelong day?

(via John Derbyshire)

Other Posts of Interest:

• At the Bottom, and Digging Fast (UPDATE: The Post Is Fundamentally Wrong.)
• It’s Like the Mafia, Except It’s Chris Dodd and Chuck Schumer, Who Are Wimps
• Why Did the Washington Post Scrub an Obama Quote from a News Story?

Tags: Barack Obama, Democrats, Taxes

Category: Our New Democratic Overlords, The Obamessiah