According to a bunch of Republicans in Missouri, Senator Claire McCaskill never saw a tax that she didn't love:
McCaskill has opposed every tax relief package that passed the Congress over the last five years. Those tax cuts included marriage penalty relief, death tax relief, an increase in the child tax credit and small business tax relief.
Well, those taxes were for the little people, those everyday Americans who don't have to worry so much about their money being wasted. And let it be known that Senator McCaskill has done her part to prevent government waste.
I give out an award called "The Whitey" to people who prevent government waste. But only if they do it by not paying their taxes (the only guaranteed way to ensure government won't blow the money).
Go here to see a list of previous winners.
Reverend Al Sharpton, through a spectacular effort of gall and hypocrisy, has already won the 2011 trophy. The best that Senator McCaskill can do is claim runner-up.
Here's Hot Air on McCaskill's efforts to take the trophy:
McCaskill has been answering questions about the plane since POLITICO recently reported that she billed taxpayers for a political trip around Missouri. POLITICO also reported that McCaskill spent $76,000 from her Senate budget on trips on the aircraft over the past four years, prompting the senator to refund the Treasury Department more than $88,000 for the cost of the trips plus pilot fees.
McCaskill’s announcement Monday is the latest twist in a political scandal that has dogged her for the past two weeks. The expensive fiasco clashes with her self-made image as a reformer and good-government advocate during her first term in the Senate. McCaskill has now shelled out more than $375,000 in payments to cover the cost the plane flights and back taxes, a series of events the senator herself has called “embarrassing.”
On top of this, McCaskill signed on in February as a co-sponsor of Senate legislation that would fire federal employees if they are “seriously delinquent” in paying their own federal taxes…
“There are people I could blame for this, but I know better. As an auditor, I know I should have checked for myself. I take full responsibility for the mistake,” added McCaskill, Missouri’s former state auditor from 1999 to 2007. “I should have checked the documentation. I should have been asking the questions. I shouldn’t have assumed that somebody was doing it.”
Mistake, my ass. Senator McCaskill, you were just trying to earn a Whitey. You registered the plane in Delaware (where you didn't pay taxes on it) before you moved it closer to home in Missouri (where you didn't pay taxes on it.)
Here's your nomination trophy:
Here's a rather harsh anti-Claire video that the Republicans are going to be throwing down soon. Don't they understand that the Senator was just trying to put the money to its best use, rather than see it wasted?
Here's the link to a GENIUS "Claire Air" website. The in-flight entertainment is outstanding.
McCaskill has opposed every tax relief package that passed the Congress over the last five years. Those tax cuts included marriage penalty relief, death tax relief, an increase in the child tax credit and small business tax relief.
Well, those taxes were for the little people, those everyday Americans who don't have to worry so much about their money being wasted. And let it be known that Senator McCaskill has done her part to prevent government waste.
I give out an award called "The Whitey" to people who prevent government waste. But only if they do it by not paying their taxes (the only guaranteed way to ensure government won't blow the money).
Go here to see a list of previous winners.
Reverend Al Sharpton, through a spectacular effort of gall and hypocrisy, has already won the 2011 trophy. The best that Senator McCaskill can do is claim runner-up.
Here's Hot Air on McCaskill's efforts to take the trophy:
McCaskill has been answering questions about the plane since POLITICO recently reported that she billed taxpayers for a political trip around Missouri. POLITICO also reported that McCaskill spent $76,000 from her Senate budget on trips on the aircraft over the past four years, prompting the senator to refund the Treasury Department more than $88,000 for the cost of the trips plus pilot fees.
McCaskill’s announcement Monday is the latest twist in a political scandal that has dogged her for the past two weeks. The expensive fiasco clashes with her self-made image as a reformer and good-government advocate during her first term in the Senate. McCaskill has now shelled out more than $375,000 in payments to cover the cost the plane flights and back taxes, a series of events the senator herself has called “embarrassing.”
On top of this, McCaskill signed on in February as a co-sponsor of Senate legislation that would fire federal employees if they are “seriously delinquent” in paying their own federal taxes…
“There are people I could blame for this, but I know better. As an auditor, I know I should have checked for myself. I take full responsibility for the mistake,” added McCaskill, Missouri’s former state auditor from 1999 to 2007. “I should have checked the documentation. I should have been asking the questions. I shouldn’t have assumed that somebody was doing it.”
Mistake, my ass. Senator McCaskill, you were just trying to earn a Whitey. You registered the plane in Delaware (where you didn't pay taxes on it) before you moved it closer to home in Missouri (where you didn't pay taxes on it.)
Here's your nomination trophy:
Here's a rather harsh anti-Claire video that the Republicans are going to be throwing down soon. Don't they understand that the Senator was just trying to put the money to its best use, rather than see it wasted?
Here's the link to a GENIUS "Claire Air" website. The in-flight entertainment is outstanding.
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