Culture of corruption

Matthew Hoy
By Matthew Hoy on March 24, 2009

Today's guilty party is Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. -- or is it Maryland?

California's Rep. Pete Stark, a senior House Democrat who helps write the nation's tax laws, has been claiming a $1.7 million Maryland home as his principal residence in recent years, although he represents the Golden State's 13th District on the east side of San Francisco Bay.

The 77-year-old Stark has saved himself nearly $3,900 in state and county taxes by claiming the six-acre waterfront estate as his principal residence, according to an investigation by Bloomberg News.

Maryland law allows the tax break only to those residences used "for the legal purposes of voting, obtaining a driver's license, and filing income tax returns."

And what is Stark's defense?

Stark tells Bloomberg, "Insofar as I know, I'm obeying the law."

Ignorance it is!

0 comments on “Culture of corruption”

  1. Stark is a Democrat. They are exempt from the laws they write. Didn't you know?

    Honest Democrat is a contradiction in terms.

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