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Dems’ rule: Tax as I say, not as I pay
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, July 11, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

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Try not to let this destroy your faith in the integrity of the Mass. Democratic Party, but it appears that we have another elected tax deadbeat on our hands.

I refer of course to Rep. Carlos “Tony” Henriquez (D-Dorchester). The 35-year-old is charged with assault and domestic kidnapping of his 23-year-old ex-girlfriend Sunday morning. And you thought it was the Republicans who were waging a “war on women.”

But now it turns out that the solon’s driver’s license is non-renewable because he owes a 2011 City of Boston excise tax bill. Maybe that’s what he was discussing with U.S. Senate candidate Granny Warren on City Hall Plaza on the Fourth of July.

Granny, too, was an excise-tax scofflaw in Cambridge — until the Herald called her out on it.

But this nonpayment of taxes is endemic in the Democrat Party. They want YOU to pay higher taxes, but for themselves ... not so much.

Henriquez’s lawyer is one Stephanie Soriano-Mills. In an amazing coincidence, Soriano-Mills just happens to be the daughter-in-law of ex-Sen. Dianne Wilkerson. You may know Wilkerson better as 21757-038, which is her Bureau of Prisons number.

Until March 2014 she’s doing a bit for bribery, but her first federal rap was for failure to file income tax returns. She’s at the federal prison in Danbury, which once housed another state senator from Roxbury, Royal Bolling Sr.

His crime? You guessed it — income tax evasion.

It’s a small world when you’re cheating on your taxes. Rep. Johnny “Pockets” Tierney’s wife just did a month in prison last year — aiding and abetting the filing for false tax returns for her brother.

House Speaker Good Time Charlie Flaherty, the first of the three speaker felons in a row — felony tax evasion.

Then of course there was the Big Kahuna of Massachusetts tax cheats — U.S. Sen. John “Liveshot” Kerry. Remember his new $7 million yacht, which he registered in Newport in a failed attempt to beat the $437,500 state sales tax, not to mention the $70,000 annual excise tax in the town of Nantucket?

All of these people have D after their name. It stands for Democrat ... and deadbeat.

Then there’s Rep. David Linsky of Natick. He’s on YouTube, telling the people of Ohio not to trust Mitt Romney because “he raised the tax burden on each family, $1,200 per person.”

Well, not exactly on everybody. Not on David Linsky, because he didn’t bother to file any income tax returns in 2002 and 2003 until he was called out by the Herald. (Notice a trend here?)

Same thing with Rep. Ben Swan of Springfield. He was busted by this newspaper for not filing income tax returns in 2003. Later, he paid his property taxes after his local newspaper told him he was delinquent.

Now you know why Tony Henriquez is described as an “up-and-coming” rep. He’s like all the rest of them at the State House.

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