When I buy stuff off of ebay, I'll always calculate the local and state sales taxes, and mail unsolicited checks to those respective agencies. You do that too, right? Never bought a car across state lines?

ah297900 wrote:

When I buy stuff off of ebay, I'll always calculate the local and state sales taxes, and mail unsolicited checks to those respective agencies. You do that too, right? Never bought a car across state lines?

And you aren't an uber-rich senator from a state that you helped to bankrupt.  (nope, never bought a car across state lines)

A good deal of our net worth these last ten years was sunk in luxury yacht construction and service industry to support it.

I'm sure a large part of the reason our masters hate the Internet is that it makes it harder for them to hide their contempt for the law.

choad wrote:

Kerry's an idiot.

I remember thinking that when I used to see him on TV in 2004.  That was why I didn't vote in that election--the only Presidential election I ever skipped--I simply couldn't bear to pull the lever.  So thanks for confirming my suspicions.

sigmoid freud wrote:

Au contraire. It makes it even easier for them to fool the idiocracy. Witness the Teabagger phenomenon and Shirley Sherrod.

It's different but the same; the idiocracy have more available heroes; the cynics just shake their heads more often.

choad wrote:

A good deal of our net worth these last ten years was sunk in luxury yacht construction and service industry to support it.

True the amount spent on yachts in the last 10 years is astonishing, but it is chump change for the fortunate few. Heck  these guys are not spending anything they can not afford. They remain assured that the gravy train will keep rolling on. And in the modern society we have created the class disparity is going to widen by a truly jaw dropping amount in the next decade. Our society now has exceeded the robber baron era of the late 1800s and is entering an era of disparity similar to the Sun King.

The yachts are the least of it If you think 50 gallons an hour is excessive, imagine what a mogul I know of spends on his frog pond. It is an acre crafted to look like a New England bog except that it is a pool designed for swimming and heated to a most pleasant temperature in the cold foggy mists. I do not have any idea how they keep the marsh plants you swim through so healthy and the water so clear with those high temperatures. Beautiful but very strange in its perfect approximation of that wild nature feature Choad would be familiar with, the old spring fed swimming hole down by the swamp.

A "mogul" may spend millions on his yacht, but building and maintaining it supports the families of hundreds of workers at the manufacturer, boat yard, sail makers loft, etc.

So he parks in RI. The harbors and sea access are better there as well as much cheaper on the taxes.

Johnny_Rotten wrote:

Where Have I heard this before?

Ah yes. The Reagen era.

Mink don't trickle down.

Actually 'Trickle Down' was an appropriate term, problem is most of us would have preferred a nice steady 'Flow Down'

Mustn't forget Tony Hayward and his yacht race.

phreddy wrote:

I always knew everyone has their price when I heard that the Rev Sun Myung Moon of Mooney fame was walking around Congress with his pockets full of envelopes, each with a $100 bill in it.  He handed these envelopes out out to members of Congress along with a handshake, and almost every one of them kept the money.  Ever since that day, back in the 80's, I have known just how small the price is for our elected officials.

I suppose we could say that Kerry's price is a bit higher, were it not for the fact that it is his wife's taxes they are evading.

Meanwhile, Barney Frank throws a hissy fit over being denied his $1 senior discount for the ferry ride to Fire Island.  You can't make this stuff up.

Did not age well...

Kerry ( or Teresa as she brought it for him as a gift to replace outings now missed on the late Teddy's yacht) ponys up the 500K. A small fraction of what this day sailor cost.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaki … to_pa.html

No word on if he will file yearly for abatement on the MA excise tax. Which of course all MA residents do as program produced  assessments do not reflect real market value or use.

Kerry has been dogged by questions in recent days by questions about whether he purposely tried to evade taxes in his home state by listing the $7 million yacht's home berth as Newport, R.I., when he actually intended to use the boat at his summer home on Nantucket. His yacht purchase was first reported in the Boston Herald.

I do not think Kerry needs to slum it on his boat out on the island. Teresa has an extremely rare mansion on the harbor that is worth in the 40 million dollar range.

Maybe I will post a pic later of his other twin o/b boat, painted unlike the other gleaming white phallic extensions a nice shade of swiftboat flat grey.