Now that I think about it, that may have been Dick Durbin and Connecticut, but it doesn't matter, they are all the same.
I think it was John Kerry.
Anyone here remember the 10% luxury tax Congress passed and Bush senior signed back in 1991? I was in the yacht sales industry at the time and it destroyed the US boat manufacturing industry because people just stopped buying boats. Over $400,000 jobs were lost across the industry including a generation of skilled craftsmen. This was the beginning of the inroads the Chinese and Europeans started making in to the US recreational boat market.
You’re right - Kerry did do that... Also there was something about one of his houses that games were played with for property taxes. That came up when he ran with John Edwards, I think for the WH. So long ago, I don’t remember details.
As far as I know both he and Edwards (is he still alive?) owed the US Treasury money for the paychecks they received while they were on the campaign trail and not doing the job in the Senate they were elected to do back in 2003??? Probably we lucked out there in spite of them being scofflaws!
There used to be a list with $$ owed for the same thing but I haven’t come up with anything current in a long time. I think it was the National Taxpayers Union that put out the list.
I was just thinking about the same thing. Also, that tax on yachts and the like did a real number on the businesses that sold them.
Kerry has three purple hearts too.
It is “the war hero” and he keeps “his” yachts registered in RI. Fact.
They won't be bot in your state anymore...Simple as that.
Dumb asses.