How come rich liberals never like to pay their taxes?
By Cal YachtsRead the whole thing before commenting, liberals.
Oh, and if you belive John is keeping the boat in Rhode Island because of the chartering and maintenance there is a bridge in Brooklyn I’d like to sell ya!
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2010/07/28/kerry-to-pay-yacht-tax-in-effort-to-cast-off-controversy/
After a burst of unflattering media, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts has agreed to pay about 0,000 in taxes for a luxury yacht that he docked outside the state.
Kerry issued a statement Tuesday evening – five days after the story broke – saying he would make a lump payment to the state he represents.
“We’ve reached out to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and made clear that, whether owed or not, we intend to pay the equivalent taxes as if the boat’s home port were currently in Massachusetts. That payment is being made promptly.”
The former Democratic presidential candidate initially avoided about 0,000 in Massachusetts sales taxes and ,000 in annual excise taxes by stationing his new million luxury yacht in neighboring Rhode Island. That state repealed taxes on the sale and use of yachts in 1993, making it a tax haven for boaters.
After the Boston Herald broke the story last Friday, Kerry was literally chased by local reporters and ridiculed by political columnists. The story was starting to make it into the national media when Kerry suddenly announced he would voluntarily pay the tax.
The New Zealand-built yacht has been seen repeatedly in Massachusetts waters, potentially giving the state a claim to levy a tax. Kerry’s spokesman said the yacht was docked in Rhode Island mainly for maintenance and chartering purposes.
To Bill Brasky- It’s lest, not less. Also, I don’t remember seeing Republicans running around saying paying taxes is patriotic like Joe ‘I can’t open my mouth without sticking my foot in it’ BIden. Also if you will recall, Timothy Geithner is an actual tax cheat, yet he runs the Treasury Dept, which in turn, runs the IRS. Republicans aren’t that brazen as to throw that level of hypocrisy in the taxpayers faces. I also believe I forgot to mention ol’ Charlie Rangel. I’m hardly cherry picking, but if you ever had any experience reading you would have noticed I didn’t include every political viewpoint, just the one that thinks that paying taxes is for everyone else and not them. DUH!
Comrade Otto- See Timothy Geithner. Do you really not understand the question I posed? Dems (who, by the way, are mostly liberal) run around telling everybody else they should be patriotic and pay their taxes. Liberals. And yet, they are the ones who manage to cheat Uncle Sam out of the taxes they owe. How you cannot grasp this concept is beyond me. You are willfully ignorant.
Melissa- Do you read at all? Apparently I have to make my point yet again. Liberals think everybody else should pay taxes. Besides, my examples trample your puny one. The guy who runs the Treasury and the guy who is on the House committee that writes the tax laws are definitely better than yours. Silly rabbit.
10 Comments
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
Paying bills is for plebs liberals are always quick to scold but consider themselves above all that. And special cases . We have a whole bunch of them over here in Parliament helping themselves to our kitty even for mundane things like toothbrushes . When thy were caught with their filthy hands deep in the till they screamed like banshees PARLIAMENTARY PRIVILEGE . And you think your lot are arrogant
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
The reason the tax code is longer than the obamacare bill is that the politicians write all the loopholes in it for their own benefit. So it’s not just the usual liberal "Do as I say not as I do" policy. This is why the flat tax doesn’t have a chance, because the politicians and their rich friends (only an idiot thinks that only applies to republicans, but democrats get away with saying it) can’t cheat on their taxes.
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
Bahahaha I Love it !! Smack !! can’t wait to see the Liberals answer this one !!
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
they’ve never respected economically egalitarian ideas. they’re corporatist pigs who are only for cultural diversity (wink, wink) as long as it doesn’t involve sending *their* kid to *that* school.
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
Swap liberals for people.
Rich people cheat their taxes all the time whilst we’re expected to pay ours.
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
The former Manhattan Republican Chairman James Ortenzio just pleaded guilty to tax evasion, according to the Manhattan District Attorney.
From a press release that just went out:
Mr. Morgenthau said that ORTENZIO’s crimes occurred while he was the County Chairman of the New York County Republican Committee. From 1999 to 2003, ORTENZIO had served as the Chairman of the Hudson River Park Trust, a public benefit corporation created to develop and maintain the Hudson River Park, which stretches for about five miles along the Manhattan shoreline from Battery Place to 59th Street.
Specifically, ORTENZIO was mandated by his position as the Chairman of the County Republican Committee to file an Annual Statement of Financial Disclosure with the New York State Ethics Commission. In September of 2004, he was paid $100,000 by Fisher Brothers Management Co., located at 299 Park Avenue, New York, New York, for certain consulting services. On June 13, 2005, ORTENZIO filed his calendar year 2004 Disclosure form, but intentionally omitted his payment from Fisher Brothers Management in an effort to prevent disclosing that he received the money.
Additionally, in June of 2004, ORTENZIO was retained to arbitrate a business dispute involving two companies that provide helicopter flight services in Manhattan, Air Pegasus of New York, Inc. and Sightseeing Tours of America, Inc. Both companies are located on land belonging to the Hudson River Park Trust. ORTENZIO was paid approximately $80,000 in 2005 for his arbitration services. Subsequently, ORTENZIO filed false and fraudulent 2005 personal New York state tax returns by intentionally failing to disclose the income received from his mediation services.
Mr. Morgenthau said that the investigation leading to today’s guilty plea commenced in November of 2005. Since then, the investigation has resulted in several convictions. On May 2, 2007, Dennis Pappas, former Vice-President of Cipriani USA, pleaded guilty to Attempted Insurance Fraud in the Second Degree for defrauding insurance companies out of more than $1,000,000. Pappas was sentenced on July 2, 2007 to 1 ½ to 4 ½ years in state prison and the payment of $1,017,000 in restitution.
On July 31, 2007, Arrigo Cipriani, the patriarch of the Cipriani family business, Giuseppe Cipriani, the President and CEO of Cipriani USA, Inc., and three Cipriani corporations pleaded guilty to tax evasion. They were sentenced on October 10, 2007 to repayment of $10 million in back taxes. An independent monitor was also installed to ensure accurate tax treatment of all of the family’s businesses.
ORTENZIO, who owns several meat processing companies, was a significant distributor of meat and other food products to Cipriani restaurants.
Mr. Morgenthau thanked the New York City Department of Finance and its Commissioner Martha E. Stark, as well as its Assistant Commissioner for Tax Enforcement Carlton Butler; the Director of Tax Enforcement, Maureen Kokeas; Manager, Criminal Audit Tax Enforcement Division Robert Stahl; and Special Tax Auditor Franklin Hayes. The District Attorney also thanked the Acting New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and its Commissioner, Barbara Billett; Deputy Commissioner for Tax Enforcement William Comiskey, and Peter Farrell, Assistant Deputy Commissioner for Tax Enforcement.
Assistant District Attorney Eric Seidel, Deputy Chief of the District Attorney’s Rackets Bureau, and Assistant District Attorney Brian J. Fields are in charge of the prosecution. Financial Consultant John Tampa also assisted in the case, as did Senior Investigators James Mauritzen, Julian Yannotti and Supervising Investigator Stephen McCallion of the Investigation Bureau, which is headed by Chief Investigator Joseph Pennisi and Deputy Chief Terry Mulderrig.
Paybarah, A. (2007, November 15). James Ortenzio Pleads Guilty to Tax Evasion. The New York Observer. Retrieved from http://www.observer.com/2007/ortenzio-pleads-guilty-tax-evasion
There are cheats on both sides. If you were smart you would know that.
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
Money corrupts, and absolute money corrupts absolutely. or DOES it?
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
They’re better than we are, so they say!
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
And no republican has ever done this less the person who asked this question could be accused of cherry picking.
July 31st, 2010 at 12:38 am
It’s all about the OPM. Other Peoples Money, and how much of it the DUMBacrats can give away. But they want to keep their own money.