Daschles Double Dipping Property Tax Breaks in DC, South Dakota

Talon News ^ | 10/28/2004 | Jeff Gannon, Washington Bureau Chief

[2banana]

Why is it that democrats who continually push for higher taxes use every trick in the book in getting out of paying the taxes...?

[unspun]

How many nails does a coffin need, in South Dakota?

[syriacus]

That Tom Daschle is a real stinker.

[Red Badger]

If Dashole is doing it, how many OTHERS (D/R) are doing it also?.......

[theDentist]

Probably All.

[Howlin]

But inexplicably, Mrs. Daschle is registered to vote in South Dakota, and last week cast an absentee ballot there.

Main Entry: in·ex·pli·ca·ble
Pronunciation: "i-nik-'spli-k&-b&l, (")i-'nek-(")spli-
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin inexplicabilis, from in- + explicabilis explicable
: incapable of being explained, interpreted, or accounted for

***Oh, I think we can explain, interpret, or account for it.

[Popman]

Seeing Little Tommy Dasshole go down in flames will almost be as sweet as watching Kerry give his concession speech at 11:00 Tues night

[kx9088]

Because they can.

And even after they "close the loopholes" they'll find new ones since they are scum.

Why are they scum? Because if they really cared about taking on more of the tax burden to relieve the middle and lower class, they wouldn't jump through those loopholes as it is right now.

[Liz]

This story needs to be FReeped. Let's keep up the pressure.

Jeff Gannon newstips@talonews.com

In Re: Talon news stories on Daschle's DC Tax Exemption


Talon News tells the sorry tale of Sen Daschle's Kafkaesque metamorphosis from a down-home South Dakotan to an ultra-liberal lord of a $1.9 million Washington mansion who does not even pay his fair share of property taxes.

Talon News reports that the District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR) is investigating whether Sen Daschle is actually entitled to a property tax exemption he claimed on the $1.9 million Washington mansion he and his wife purchased in 2003, and that Sen Daschle declared on official documents filed with OTR that the District mansion was his "principal place of residence."

At issue is the homestead exemption, a property tax credit limited to owner-occupants who declare their homes to be their "primary residence."

The affidavit filed with OTR that bears the senator's signature makes that claim. A flurry of activity began on September 29, 2004 when Talon News filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the executed application. That same day, Carl Piggott, an OTR auditor rescinded the homestead exemption---possibly at Sen Daschle's direction. The following day, the OTR legal staff reinstated the credit.

A Talon News source reported that OTR faxed a letter
to Daschle's Washington office on Monday asking that a new application be executed. The details of the activities that ensued beginning September 29 have not yet been revealed, but Doug Schauss, a spokesman for the OTR told Talon News that the matter was "under review with the legal staff" and that a "resolution was expected soon."

These puzzling circumstances suggest Sen Daschle has something to hide.

First Sen Daschle claims he did, and then he says he didn’t, apply for a tax exemption. He can't have it both ways. South Dakotans should ask themselves, “ If Sen Daschle lied to you about this issue, what else has he lied to you about?"

[Diogenesis]

(Ms. Kaiser Sose): "Listen, Short one, do not worry about the IRS.
I STILL control them and also one thousand FBI files.
No one will ever DARE touch you or me.
Now bring out the dead for the election."

[silverleaf]

You know, I'm sure many people do the same thing when it comes to taking advantage of the homestead exemptions on local property taxes.

But those same people do not, unlike Senator Daschle, stand up in public and piously spout off about how "rich" people (OTHER people) need to pay higher taxes....errr, I mean, pay "their fair share"...

I hope Daschle goes down. He is a sniveling little hyprocrite and it will be a fitting end to a career that has focused for almost 4 years on on obstructing the President, regardless of the issue or consequence.

[Carolinamom]

To escape paying their fair share of taxes, does Hillary list her home in DC as her principal residence, and does Billy list his home in Chapaqua as his principal residence? How can we find the facts on this possible/likely arrangement?

[Liz]

Should be public information.

Search the Chappaqua tax rolls.

Call the District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue (OTR).

[Non-Sequitur]

If Dashole is doing it, how many OTHERS (D/R) are doing it also?.......

Probably a fair number. But if this embarassment winds up costing Daschle then I'll bet you'll see a long line of congresscreatures at the Tax window come next Wednesday.

[joesnuffy]

We have allowed those we elect to office to get away with so much crap for so many years
they expect it...and scream bloody murder when they get caught or don't get what they think they are owed...

How many jobs are there were the employees get to vote themselves raises and benefits?

Davy Crockett packed up and left congress in disgust at the whole pack of self serving ravenous wolves he discovered and went home...and that was back before the Alamo

Dang near two hundred years of this crap the pile must be getting pretty deep by now..

[Non-Sequitur]

Just like Bob Dole, he will rarely ever "go home" again.

I've been to Russell. I don't blame Dole in the least.

[FITZ]

Taxes are for the little people.

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Count Tom Daschle as one more politician who, when he loses or retires, has absolutely no intention of going back home to the "sticks." He's got DC fever and will likely will die in his Foxhall Road bed in Northwest Washington some 30 years from now.

After the good people of South Dakota kick his sorry butt out of office he may stay in DC, but I bet his wife's income takes a nosedive when her credentials only include the "wife of an ex-senator".