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Senator John F. Kerry yesterday acknowledged for the first time that he mishandled the political fallout from questions about taxes on his new $7 million yacht berthed in Rhode Island, but insisted that he always intended to make the $500,000 payment once he had registered the boat in Massachusetts. “Our fault,’’ the Massachusetts Democrat said in an interview. “I don’t think I dealt with it fast enough, effectively enough. There’s nobody to blame but myself for that.’’ Last Friday, Kerry issued a less-than-definitive statement about the matter, saying, “If I owe taxes, I will pay promptly.’’ That was followed over...

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John F. Kerry reported $395,338 in income last year and paid $90,575 in taxes. His wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, heiress to the Heinz food company fortune, reported income of $5.1 million last year and paid $587,000 in taxes. Bush last year reported income of $822,000, on which he paid 28 percent in federal taxes.

Read what Kerry advisor - Prof Delong - and his academic-commie pals plan to do with our money... http://pep.typepad.com/public_enquiry_project/2004/07/read_what_kerry.html

Kerry Taxes Will Sock It To Middle Class Families by Stephen Moore Posted Apr 9, 2004 Last week John Kerry's new economic adviser, Roger Altman, a former Bill Clinton Treasury bureaucrat, announced "we will get to the right of George Bush on fiscal issues." This statement was made only a few days after Kerry proposed a tax plan that allegedly cuts taxes for 95% of families with incomes of less than $200,000 a year. Is Kerry suddenly a Ronald Reagan tax cutter who wants to ease the strangling government burden on the middle class? Has this tiger really changed his...

<p>Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Wednesday he will ask Americans earning more than $200,000 a year to pay the taxes they paid under President Clinton and pledged to retain the Bush tax cuts for the middle class and even add to them.</p>

Liveshot's golden tax rule: Raise unto others, but not me By Howie Carr Recent Columns by Howie Carr Friday, February 27, 2004 John Kerry has a two-part plan for the income tax: Part one: He wants to raise yours. Part two: He doesn't want to raise his own. Liveshot wouldn't put it that way, of course, but actions speak louder than words. And when John Kerry [related, bio] had a chance last year to voluntarily pay an extra $687 in Massachusetts state income taxes, he went AWOL. When he had an opportunity to pony up an extra $687, Kerry did...