It really, really is getting time for a revolution:
In yet another amazing case of tax chutzpah: California congressman Pete Stark has improperly claimed a Maryland lakefront home (assessed at $1.7 million) as his primary residence in order to qualify for a special real estate tax break:
A senior member of the House’s tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, Stark said he was unaware that he might not be eligible for the tax break. Asked whether it was questionable for him to receive it, he said, “I guess it is.”
To qualify, a property must be the owner’s principal residence: He or she must live there at least six months of the year, use the address for voter registration and driver’s license purposes, and file Maryland income taxes. Stark is registered to vote at his wife’s parents’ address in San Lorenzo and has a California driver’s license…
…Earlier this month, Congressmen Eliot Engel, a lifelong resident of the Bronx, was outed for claiming the Maryland real estate tax break on his Maryland home (formerly owned by ABC’s Ted Koppel and Wonder Woman Lynda Carter) assessed at $938,000.
Both are Democrats, naturally – but, more importantly, here is the evidence that our leaders are entirely disconnected from us and no matter how much they say they care about Joe and Jane Average, what they are really all about is increasing their own power and wealth. Both Stark and Engel should be immediately expelled from the House as our Constitution requires a Representative to be a resident of the district he represents…anyone want to take bets on whether or not Queen Nancy I will move for said expulsion?
Unfortunately, changing this is going to be entirely upon conservatism – our liberals simply will not admit that they have a problem, and if they do concede the point they are very unlikely to understand that the reason hatred is whipped up over people like Governor Palin is because the ruling elite perceives such people as a threat. Palin is one of us, and she wouldn’t put up with the sort of nonsense going on in DC…Jindal, also, is one of us. There are some Democrats on our side – the eleven who voted in the House against the Spendulus are Democrats who understand that the people’s business isn’t bailing out failed banks or providing payoffs for corrupt special interests of whatever party. And we must nor forget that some GOPers are very much part of the problem (Senator Specter, we’re looking your way…).
A little revolution, now and then, really is a good thing – and what we need is a top to bottom reform of government; a re-affirmation of core, Constitutional principles; a new birth of freedom in America…and we’re only going to get this if we cut like a scythe through the current ruling class at election time.
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