(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."
Why is it that democrats who continually push for higher taxes use every trick in the book in getting out of paying the taxes...?
That Tom Daschle is a real stinker.
If Dashole is doing it, how many OTHERS (D/R) are doing it also?.......
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 That same day, Carl Piggott, an OTR auditor rescinded the homestead exemption---possibly at Sen Daschle's direction.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?"
(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."
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.
I'm very saddened by this. Tom Daschle has failed miserably. I just contributed $10 to Thune on monday. I'm going to have one beer for every senate seat republicans pick up on election night. Hopefully, I'll be highly intoxicated. HA!
Home is where the Heart is.
If there is a doubt in anyone's mind about where Little Tommy's heart is, ask yourself this question:
If Tom Daschle is defeated, where will the Daschle family continue to live and work--S. Dakota or Washington, D.C.?
Is this actually news in South Dakota?