Yawn?
Could be a lot more than that.
Robert Wexler (D-Florida), now thankfully an ex-congressman, lives in VA, pays real estate taxes in VA, his children went to school in VA and even claimed a Homestead real estate tax rebate available only to legal residents of the state. He claimed he lived in his Florida district with his mother-in-law in her one bedroom apartment in a senior community limited to those over 55. Think that was a yawn.
How about Eliot Engel (D-NY) with just about the exact same story. Lives in VA with his wife and kids who are schooled in VA and he claimed a Homestead Real Estate Tax Rebate as a legal full-time resident. Yet he claims he lives with his mother or mother-in-law who resides in his district in NY. Still think this is a yawn.
Rick hasn't been in Congress in years. Why is he putting himself in a position where he could possibly charged with fraud?
Yawn.
Wexler made too much money to qualify, and he wasn't sufficiently handicapped anyway.
I think someone must have confounded the property tax adjustment law here with a homestead tax rebate. What happens is when property values go up the property tax is reduced so that people don't pay more than they did before. It works the other way too. As property values fell during the Great Obama Recession, property tax rates were increased. This is a legislatively mandated process.
I think Wexler's problem was in not maintaining a proper domicile in Florida ~ a rusty trailer in a decrepit trailer park would have done it.