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After a taxing week, Liveshot pays up
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, July 28, 2010 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Sen. John “Liveshot” Kerry was so angry last night he threw somebody else’s tax bill over the White House wall.
The real JFK had PT 109, and now all John Forbes Kerry is left with is PT 1099.
Even Christy Mihos and Jack E. Robinson held out longer against the DOR than Liveshot did, and that reminds the senior senator of what he likes least about the 21st century: The Globe can’t protect him anymore.
Why, did you see those riff-raff reporters Monday in Weymouth, chasing him into the SUV, asking him those impertinent questions about his tax evasion?
Don’t those ruffians know who John Kerry almost was? Why, if Diebold hadn’t stolen all those votes in Ohio in 2004, it’d be Liveshot’s picture hanging in the lobby of the Yale Club on 44th Street in New York City, right alongside Clinton’s and Bush’s.
Would that it were, would that it were...
Why the long face, Sen. Kerry?
You know very well what Mama T served him for dinner last night - hot tongue and cold shoulder - especially when he started asking her questions like “Lovey, have you seen the checkbook?”
He’ll be down at the bank first thing this morning: “Can I get me a cashier’s check for a half-million dollars here?”
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.”
Or as John Kerry would put it, “Taxes are what everybody but me pays for civilized society.”
Benjamin Franklin said, “In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.”
That, and rich liberal Democrats trying to cheat on their taxes.
The irony, of course, is that even beyond the taxes, John Kerry had plenty of reasons for berthing the Botched Joke - I mean, the Isabel - in Rhode Island.
At least for the maritime industry, Rhode Island has embraced trickle-down economics. As a friend of mine who knows a lot about boats says, Rhode Island’s no-tax policy “has encouraged the development of a marine industry that earnestly caters to yachts and commercial vessels, centered around the Town of Middleton on the western shore of Narragansett Bay... sail makers, caterers (sailors have to eat) marine mechanics, radio-servicing companies and the like....
“Mass. has a few good yacht marinas, like McDougall’s down in Hyannis, but these businesses are few and far between... Were I Kerry, I would never be able to find the quantity or quality of marine professionals in Massachusetts that are available in Rhode Island. This is pure Reaganomics - a great economy that is a direct result of a sound and easy taxing policy.”
Imagine Kerry coming clean and explaining that indisputable truth - that Rhode Island’s maritime industry has forged ahead of Massachusetts’ because they’ve rejected his - and his party’s - crackpot confiscatory tax policies, at least for one industry.
The only industry Massachusetts has built up in the last few decades is the hackerama. We don’t subsidize boat builders, we subsidize sloth, welfare and illegal aliens. Whatever you subsidize you get more of, and boy have we had an explosion of sloth, welfare and illegal aliens.
So now everyone is laughing at Liveshot again, and there’s one explanation. It’s all Bush’s fault.
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