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Daschle Claims Questionable Tax Credit for DC Home
Talon News | August 13, 2003 | By Jeff Gannon

Posted on 08/13/2003 8:48:11 AM PDT by holyscroller

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- Sen. Tom Daschle's (D-SD) new Washington home has been giving the Senate minority leader headaches of late. Last week, Club for Growth, the Washington-based, anti-tax group, began airing ads in South Dakota that imply the senator's "very, very, very big house" purchased in April for $1.9 million betrays his down-home image.

Now another controversy surrounding the palatial French colonial on Washington's exclusive Foxhall Road has emerged. A Talon News search of DC property records revealed that Daschle is receiving the homestead tax credit.

The District of Columbia allows a $30,000 deduction against a property's tax assessment for the calculation of taxes. Even though every owner-occupied property is eligible for the tax credit, it was enacted to protect lower income homeowners from sharp increases in property taxes due to skyrocketing property values in Washington.

The District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue confirmed that the house is in the senator's name and that the property is receiving the homestead deduction. The deduction does not carry over from the previous owner, as any change in ownership requires a new application for the credit.

But Daschle may not even qualify for the tax credit, since one of the requirements is that the property must be the owner's primary residence. South Dakota law requires that its elected officials be residents of the state. Therefore, Daschle would be precluded from claiming his Washington home as his primary residence. The senator's tax savings is less than $1,000 a year.

Stephen Moore, President of the Club For Growth, told Talon News, "We have continued to make the case that he is a Washington resident and not the average man of Aberdeen."

Moore added, "The fact that he is claiming the District of Columbia homestead deduction further supports the idea that Daschle has become a creature of Washington, out of touch with the people of South Dakota."

Sioux Falls, South Dakota businessman and potential senate candidate Neal Tapio told Talon News, "It turns out Senator Daschle's blushing bride is blushing because of the sheer hypocrisy of her public and private husband."

Tapio continued, "Publicly, Tom criticizes Republicans for giving tax cuts to the rich and privately he uses Enron-like tax loopholes to save every penny he can."

Tapio was struck by the irony of the tax credit controversy, noting that the senator and his wife are in the upper 5% of income earners. He said, "Claiming a tax credit designed for low-income wage earners while railing on the Republicans for tax cuts for the rich is brazen hypocrisy."

Tapio also commented on Daschle's traditional car tour of South Dakota during the August recess saying, "Trading a 1978 Oldsmobile in South Dakota for a $2 million French colonial in Washington, DC tells us Tom has lost touch with his SD roots."

Tapio noted another irony in the tax issue. He pointed out that it was just last week that Daschle's Senate colleague Max Baucus (D-MT) requested an IRS investigation of a South Dakota non-profit organization that had run ads focusing on Daschle's voting record.

The District of Columbia Office of Tax and Revenue told Talon News that the matter would be investigated.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia; US: South Dakota
KEYWORDS: clubforgrowth; daschle; doublestandards; hypocrit; liar; slimbucket; southdakota
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But, but, you weren't supposed to find this out. Can't I have a private life? Signed, Little Tommy and his Lobbyest wife.
1 posted on 08/13/2003 8:48:11 AM PDT by holyscroller
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To: holyscroller
Oh, boy, that's just lots of fun.

The VRWC strikes again!
2 posted on 08/13/2003 8:51:41 AM PDT by lainie
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To: holyscroller
Damn that Steve Moore & Larry Kudlow! I'm deeply concerned....THAT MORE PEOPLE AREN'T MEMBERS OF THE CLUB FOR GROWTH!
3 posted on 08/13/2003 8:52:27 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: holyscroller
Use "click to add topic" and bump this into a sidebar. It deserves wider distribution, imo.
4 posted on 08/13/2003 8:53:21 AM PDT by lainie
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To: holyscroller
DascHOLE is DEEPLY saddened BUMP!
5 posted on 08/13/2003 8:55:58 AM PDT by Henchster
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To: holyscroller
Do we have to consider "screwing the taxpayers" as "private sexual contact"?
6 posted on 08/13/2003 8:59:17 AM PDT by Onelifetogive
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But Daschle may not even qualify for the tax credit, sinceone of the requirements is that the property must be the owner's primary residence. South Dakota law requires that its elected officials be residents of the state.

OOOOOOPs!!!

Maybe Tommy is planning to retire. He can become a lobbyist like his wife.

7 posted on 08/13/2003 8:59:31 AM PDT by syriacus (Chuck Schumer belongs to a group which excudes women from full membership)
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To: syriacus; Constitution Day; jern; mykdsmom; Helms; Vinnie
I bet John Edwards is doing this, too!
8 posted on 08/13/2003 9:02:59 AM PDT by Howlin (<------Being stalked by a whacko!!!!)
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To: holyscroller
So Tom Daschle is a tax cheat. I'm still giggling.
9 posted on 08/13/2003 9:04:09 AM PDT by lainie
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To: kristinn
pingeroo!
10 posted on 08/13/2003 9:05:22 AM PDT by tgslTakoma (Hillary!'s book is reputation-cleansing prep work for a run for higher office; FReep her everywhere!)
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To: bigfootbob
Did you see the NY Times magazine..either last Sunday or the week before..a cover story on Moore and the Club for Growth...a most excellent read....look for it....

BTW..I think TD will retire...

11 posted on 08/13/2003 9:05:35 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: holyscroller
I saw the "very, very, very nice house" commercial on one of the screaming face shows Sunday. It's pretty funny, and this story adds more fuel.
12 posted on 08/13/2003 9:07:40 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (© 2003, Ravin' Lunatic since 4/98)
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"I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Taxpayer"
13 posted on 08/13/2003 9:08:24 AM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (The wages of sin are death, but by the time FICA and SSI are taken, it's just sorta tired feeling)
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To: lainie
It's easy to do what the Daschle's are doing. All you need is a $400,000 down payment, an income of $500,000 annually, an interest rate of 5.875 for thirty years and the poor taste to call yourself a public servant.
14 posted on 08/13/2003 9:08:36 AM PDT by billhilly (No monument has been erected to a cynic)
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How will he explain the primary-residence "discrepancy?"
15 posted on 08/13/2003 9:09:52 AM PDT by lainie
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To: holyscroller

IRS Agent Vader decides to have a heart to heart discussion with lil Tommy Daschle.


16 posted on 08/13/2003 9:11:04 AM PDT by Michael.SF. ("Bush is not like Bill Clinton. I think this may be the end." Q. Hussein)
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If the Praerie Peanut retires....his wife will have NO influence.....ergo no lobbist million dollar job! He'll go screaming and kicking with that fake smile of his.
17 posted on 08/13/2003 9:12:04 AM PDT by Ann Archy
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To: Howlin
Hillary lives in that neighborhood too.
18 posted on 08/13/2003 9:13:46 AM PDT by NativeNewYorker (Freepin' Jew Boy)
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To: holyscroller
Wow. What a jerk. "Publicly, Tom criticizes Republicans for giving tax cuts to the rich and privately he uses Enron-like tax loopholes to save every penny he can."

YEP!

19 posted on 08/13/2003 9:13:46 AM PDT by concerned about politics ("He who controls communications rules the world." - Adolf Hitler)
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Tapio continued, "Publicly, Tom criticizes Republicans for giving tax cuts to the rich and privately he uses Enron-like tax loopholes to save every penny he can."

Tapio noted another irony in the tax issue. He pointed out that it was just last week that Daschle's Senate colleague Max Baucus (D-MT) requested an IRS investigation of a South Dakota non-profit organization that had run ads focusing on Daschle's voting record.

Using loopholes to save every penny he can, and then requesting an investigation into his own voting record! D@$$hole is so far out of touch with the citizens of the US. Hope the people of South Dakota put him out pasture when he comes up for re-election.

20 posted on 08/13/2003 9:14:11 AM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (Clone Ann Coulter, the woman sent by God)
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