Home
Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
New posts
Latest activity
Members
Current visitors
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
Taxing the rich and what can be learned from the 1991 yacht tax
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 853803" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p>Never mind the sheer <a href="http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/07/figures-kerry-docks-luxury-yacht-in-ri.html#links" target="_blank">hypocrisy </a>of using such a blatant loophole to escape the very thing that you personally have voted for time and time again. John Kerry never met a <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/02/john_kerry_you_know_whats_the.asp" target="_blank">tax increase</a> he didn’t like. He’s also never met a luxury yacht he didn’t like.</p><p>The classic craft is now available for charter with rates beginning at $45,000 per week.</p><p>A Department of Revenue spokesman said Kerry would be liable for Massachusetts taxes if he berthed the boat in the Bay State within six months of its purchase and it had been spotted in Nantucket, Mass., where the senator summers with his wife Teresa Heinz. That would make Kerry liable for the sales tax.<p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 853803, member: 12952"] Never mind the sheer [URL="http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/07/figures-kerry-docks-luxury-yacht-in-ri.html#links"]hypocrisy [/URL]of using such a blatant loophole to escape the very thing that you personally have voted for time and time again. John Kerry never met a [URL="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/02/john_kerry_you_know_whats_the.asp"]tax increase[/URL] he didn’t like. He’s also never met a luxury yacht he didn’t like. The classic craft is now available for charter with rates beginning at $45,000 per week. A Department of Revenue spokesman said Kerry would be liable for Massachusetts taxes if he berthed the boat in the Bay State within six months of its purchase and it had been spotted in Nantucket, Mass., where the senator summers with his wife Teresa Heinz. That would make Kerry liable for the sales tax.[LEFT][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/LEFT] [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Home
Forums
Brown Cafe Community Center
Current Events
Taxing the rich and what can be learned from the 1991 yacht tax
Top