From the RNC this morning:
IT’S NOT JUST RANGEL
Senator John Kerry Is Avoiding Paying $500,000 In Taxes On His Yacht.
Obama’s First Nominee For HHS Secretary, Tom Daschle, Failed To Pay $128,000 In Taxes.
Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner Failed To Pay $34,000 In Taxes.
HHS Secretary Sebelius And Her Husband Had To Pay $7,000 In Back Taxes.
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’ Husband Had A Tax Lien On His Business For 16 Years.
Nancy Killefer, Slated To Be The White House Chief Performance Officer, Had A $900 Lien On Her House For Failing To Pay Unemployment Taxes For Household Help.
Lael Brainard, Obama’s Nominee For Undersecretary Of The Treasury For International Affairs, Was Late In Paying Property Taxes.
Kerry says this is a non story where he's concerned. He said his boat is in a place for a specific repair and not to avoid taxes. He is paying the taxes.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhether he is paying them because of the publicity or not, we can't know, but if he is being honest here, it is not good to include him if it is wrong info.
As a well-known materialist philosopher once said "Taxes are for the little people."
I do not know if she was a Democrat.
But I do know who the 'little people' are. (As another great philosopher once said, "I was born on a Tuesday, but it wasn't last Tuesday.")
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI agree with @freedom. The Kerry story is great fun, and shows what a tin ear he has politically--but there's nothing illegal *or unethical* in him buying a boat out of state, keeping it out of state, and, thus, avoiding the taxes that would be levied on a Massachusetts purchase. So Kerry doesn't belong on the same list as the others.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI live in MA and he has certainly not been clear that he will pay the taxes. He has been ducking and weaving more than a prize fighter the last three days and he's thrown everyone under the bus except himself. He says the boat isn't his, its his wifes and it's her mess basically.
Kerry's wife still is a resident of PA, and that is where she pays taxes. I'm sure PA's income tax of just over 3% and the MA income tax of 5.3% has nothing to do with it.
This issue is more pertinent because kerry has said taxes are too low and throughout his career he has never met a tax increase he didn't like.
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Kerry has not kept the yacht out of state. Kerry and his wife have a $10 million dollar beach house on Nantucket, MA and the boat has already been seen down there numerous times. This isn't a boat or car at a house in Fl that is certainly not used in MA. RI is right next door and this is a clear attempted ducking of the taxes.
Also, according to MA state law, if a boat is docked in MA within the first 6 months of purchase the boat is deemed to be docked in MA and you owe the taxes. He has had the boat in Nantucket so he wasn't sneaky enough and owes the taxes.
This is a pol that lectures everyone on their carbon footprint, wanted to tax the heck out of us all with the cap and trade bill but he and his wife have 5 huge mansions (Beacon hill, Boston, MA, Nantucket, MA, Pittsburgh, PA, Sun Valley, ID, and Washington D.C.) and his wife has a gulf stream, they have a dozen cars including the dreaded SUV's......
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