POWIP Piece of Work In Progress – Former Abode of Dan Collins

Waffles! reminds us again

Separated at birth?

That some animals at the farm are simply more equal than others:

It’s been more than three months since we first told you about Capt. John Kerry’s high-seas tax dodge on his new $7 million yacht, Isabel, and the town of Nantucket still doesn’t have a check from the senior senator!

Now, in case you forgot, Kerry’s yacht is a New Zealand-built Friendship sloop with an Edwardian-style, glossy varnished teak interior, two VIP main cabins and a pilothouse fitted with a wet bar and cold wine storage. We point this out because the excise tax on boats is $10 per thousand of valuation. However, the state caps the assessment on yachts over 60 feet that are less than four years old at $50,000. Which, if you ask us, seems rather foolish . . .

So, the $7 million Isabel, for excise tax purposes, is worth just $50G, meaning, should Kerry decide to pony up, he’d owe just $500 to the island’s tax coffers. Chump change for Jawn and Ta-ray-za!

“Whether owed or not, we intend to pay the equivalent taxes as if the boat’s home port were currently in Massachusetts,” Kerry said at the time. “That payment is being made promptly.”

Or, maybe not.  Which is strange, because I'm pretty sure he can afford it.  Maybe, though, it's another case where he was for it before he was against it.  Then again, perhaps he's just expressing solidarity with the rest of the plebes, who he recently accused of losing their mind:

“It’s absurd. We’ve lost our minds,” said a clearly exasperated Kerry. “We’re in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don’t weigh in.

You know what's absurd Thurston Heinz III ?  That a guy with all your do-re-mi, one who undoubtably agrees with Joe Biden that paying taxes is patriotic, hasn't payed the paltry 500 dollar excise tax on your fabulous 7 million dollar yacht to the oh-so-toney town of Nantucket.  Senator, do it for Joe ...

Here's what this know-nothing knows: the fact is that Kerry is fabulously wealthy, and the truth is that he and other top Democrats have long advocated having the wealthy dutifully pay higher taxes, and I would submit that it would be trivial for him to meet the same obligations that any of us other rubes would have to.  And that's it.

The science, is settled ...

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