alright, i didnt want to write again about politicians not paying their taxes but im getting tired of seeing it in the news so often. todays tax evasion story is a woman in massachusetts, running for state AUDITOR no less, that thinks its ok to claim two residencies as her primary home therefore receiving tax exemptions twice. in the article she states that she is completely within the "letter and spirit of the law." sure.
didnt vice president biden not long ago scold us that its patriotic to pay taxes?
i originally started this post and then let it sit for awhile because of previous posts about paying/not paying taxes. the story that prompted it was about residents of nantucket that are looking to pay less in property taxes. basically all the residents on seaside hulbert ave have asked for a tax abatement. some of these residents include family members that own/operate fidelity investments, ceo of gillette, a former NFL team owners, and of course senator john kerry.
this of course is the same senator kerry that was recently caught mooring his massive $7 million yacht in rhode island though he claims his intention was never to avoid paying $500,000 massachusetts taxes on it. yup.
a few years ago massachusetts voted to lower the tax rate from 5.85% to 5.3% and there was a massive outcry that this would result in cuts to necessary programs and services. in order to help solve this problem the state said that they would allow taxpayers to continue to pay the "voluntary right tax"" instead of the new lower amount. in 2008, a total of 1953 residents in the state or roughly 0.02% of the population opted to pay the higher amount.
joe biden must be disappointed in all of us.
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