Annie McKluster Doesn't Pay Her Taxes?

The New Hampshire Young Republicans (NHYR) want to know why Congress-critter Ann McLane Kuster (I prefer McKluster) is worth an estimated $1.8 million dollars but can't manage to pay her property taxes?

“While Annie Kuster pushes a message that we all need to chip in a little extra, she has failed to pay her fair share. Yesterday we realized that a tax-and-spend liberal member of Congress is delinquent on her own taxes. Time and again, Uncle Sam’s cup is passed around and we are told to dig a little deeper. When the cup was passed to Annie Kuster, she didn’t chip in.
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I can understand if she was late on a payment or if there was just a simple oversight, but this is not a one-time mistake. Kuster has been delinquent 6 times for over $40,000 in property taxes owed to the towns of Hopkinton and Jackson. With a reported net worth of $1.8 Million (Center for Responsive Politics) how can she in good faith and with any level of moral authority ask any more of the American people than she does of herself.

This arrived in my in-box, and I don't have a link or details, so I'm just reporting what I received... but we'll follow up with more information as it becomes available.

Update: As it tuns out the original source of the story was James Pindell at WMUR.

When she was sworn in to Congress in early January, Kuster owed $14,089.32 in delinquent property taxes on her Hopkinton home. She has since made a tax payment and currently owes $6,998.22 in past-due property taxes on that property. This pattern of not paying her taxes dates back to 2010, according to the records. On the property in Jackson, she didn't pay either of the semi-annual tax bills in 2012 and owes $3,851.65.

I guess James Pindell can add "tax collector" to his resume because the morning after his report about the Democrat Rep who "forgot" to pay her taxes Mr. McKluster hopped in the McKluster-mobile and paid some of them (according to the Union Leader...)

Kuster's husband walked into Hopkinton tax collector's office Tuesday morning and paid $7,055 in remaining overdue property taxes on their primary home following a report that they have been consistently late in making such payments over the past two years.

Charles Gangel, the Hopkinton town clerk and tax collector, said attorney Bradford Kuster on Tuesday morning personally paid the remaining bill, which consisted of $6,973 for an overdue payment from last year and $82 in interest. He said the Kuster account is now current.

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Kuster issued a statement from her Washington office on Tuesday saying the Jackson payment was "en route" and the Hopkinton bill had been paid.
 
Jackson assistant tax collector Karen Burton said she had not yet received the payment as of Tuesday at 4:30 p.m.

Meanwhile, New Hampshire Democrat Party chair Ray Buckley was playing the Republican Hypocrisy card because incoming NHGOP chair Jennifer Horn has a tax lien on her own property.  But Horn seems to have handled that well enough. (Same link to the Union Leader as above)

"I have been honest about the struggles that my family faced after my husband lost his job, and we stepped up on our own to pay our obligations," Horn said.

"Congresswoman Kuster is a millionaire lobbyist-turned-politician who had the means to pay her taxes, but chose not to do so until she was caught red-handed by the media. Her continued refusal to explain to her constituents why she deliberately chose not to pay her taxes raises very serious questions that must be answered," said Horn.

I can explain it.  She's obviously plowing the earth for a juicy cabinet position in the Obama Administration.  Maybe McKluster could be the czar of swearing at people and taking their stuff?

And while I know there are far too many Democrat tax cheats for even Obama to give them all jobs isn't that where all the tax cheats seem to want to be? Like a moth to the flame.  And let's not forget about this...

 Not very patriotic of them, now is it?

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They'd Be Representing You.

If you were playing a game of 'Pick-up' basketball, and the goal was actually to try and save the US constitution, and the only two players left to pick from were Ann McLane Kuster (McKluster), or Charlie Bass, who would you want on your team?

I don't live in CD-2 so I can't make that choice myself, but I would never willingly invite a socialist into my government if other options presented themselves, nor allow one the opportunity to claim to  represent me.  Ann Kuster will be representing you for two long years if you allow her to do so.

If you can honestly say that  she best represents your political values, then by all means, let her win.  If you think you can play a political game and wait her out until next time, then you have to accept that you are not advancing the cause of liberty--are in fact walking it backwards--for what you hope is a better set of circumstances two years down the road.

I'm not saying it's not an acceptable risk, but that is a risk.

But it is safe to say that you (in CD-2) have not had any voice in Washington for four years.  If you can wait two more, then be my guest.  Just don't complain if it doesn't work out. 

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Let's Just Call Her "McLuster"

Ann McLane Kuster, aside from having another one of those pretentious feminist names like Carol Seiu-Porter, has demonstrated to us that she is just another shill for the left wing narrative.  The road map to shill-dom (the most current public version at the very least) was printed in this morning’s Union Leader under the headline “Yes, The Bush tax cuts did harm our economy” in the Another View section of the editorial page.  Yes, it is another view, and while I'm no fan of GWB, her view just happens to be a biased view that is also wrong. 

But before I explain why, let me get this out of the way.  I am not writing ‘Ann McLane Kuster’ anymore. It is annoying, and it takes far too long to write, so I’m just going to shorten it to "McLuster".    McLuster works. And she should thank me.  Combining names is so “all the rage.”  Just think Brangalina! 

McLuster is also the first of a two–word phrase often used by McDonald’s mangers when everything suddenly comes off the rails. And based on the way she “sees it,” it’s a short stumble from her rhetorical notion of economics to another full-blown federally-mandated McLuster- %$#@!

McLuster Point One. Can we call them Tax cuts for the rich?  She says yes, mostly because toxins in her BDS hate gland have permanently altered her DNA, kind of like how Bruce Banner turns into the Hulk when he gets angry.  She, like most pretentious left wing feminists, as well as every other progressive across the entire expanse of the liberal gender manifold, just get dumber when you say "Bush"--and some of them turn into big green ugly monsters. So numbers don't matter, particularly when they happen to contradict your rhetoric.

Several realities arise to meet McLuster’s charge.  First, the indexed percentage of taxes cut on the lower and middle class were larger as a percentage of real taxes paid.  (Example: cut from 15% to 10%, that's a 1/3rd reduction).  The total income tax paid by the top 40% rose 4.6% under the Bush Tax Cuts while the bottom 40% paid 4% less.  The rich actually started paying more total taxes after the tax cuts.  The total tax burden on the nation dropped 3% while gross revenue to the Treasury (most of it paid by those rich bastards at the top, and the economic activity they were creating) rose around 274 Billion in 2005 and 2006.  This could be a problem for McLuster and the democrats; it proves that the deficit Bush did leave behind—aside from being as much a product of democrat rule after 2006—was a result of the government spending even more than we were taking in, which is why our economy sucks right now.

McLuster Point Two. Did these cuts go to the middle class?  If you made $50,000.00 you saved $700.00 on the tax bill, claims McLuster,  which I assume we are meant to scorn as pitiful.  But she ignores the fact that families who made that much paid no taxes at all in most cases after the cuts and actually earned some or all of that money as a subsidy.

McLuster Point Three.  Unemployment was at 4.3% in March of 2001 and never made it back there again.  Did the cuts help the economy at all.  She says no, but she is basing it on a percentage without bothering to tell you “of what.”  In March of 2003 unemployment was 4.3%.  It rose, particularly after 9-11, but it went back down, to 4.4% and landed around 4.6% by December of 2007.  But that percentage is reflective of the number of people looking for work related to those who have not found it, not how many people are actually not working.  In reality between March of 2001 and December of 2007 the Bush economy added 3.5 million jobs according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  One might argue that having 3.5 million more people not just working, but collecting a weekly pay check and that paltry extra $700.00 every year from lower taxes is preferable to the democrats solution of adding trillions in new debt to prop up union jobs while the economy loses millions of jobs.

And look! McLuster loses her economy argument everywhere else as well making her third point ridiculously partisan, if not an outright lie.  After the second wave of 2003 tax cuts GDP grew faster than before, rebounding after the post 9/11 economic decline.  Private investment in the economy—post tax cuts--went from -0.6% to + 9.8%.  The S & P 500 grew almost 50%.  The actual number of people working rose as indicated above, and while wage growth was never great, people were working, the private sector was growing and the tax cuts actually increased the flow of revenue to the US treasury as a result of more private economic activity.  I’m sorry Ms McLuster, but I’d call that "better" than where we were in March of 2001.  Let me rephrase that.  You are wrong.

But the democrats in CD-2 are welcome to nominate McLuster if they want; but if they think she can win on rhetoric like this, they might want to Swett this one out with a different candidate.

Reference:

http://forum.belmont.edu/cornwall/archives/000984.html

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703977004575393882112674598.html?mod=wsj_share_facebook

http://bls.gov/cps/cpsatabs.htm 

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/lying_about_bushs_tax_cuts.html

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Commentary/2006/07/Bushs-2003-Tax-Cuts-Wildly-Successful

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Commentary/2007/02/Top-10-Myths-About-the-Bush-Tax-Cuts

http://www.heritage.org/Research/Reports/2010/06/The-Three-Biggest-Myths-About-Tax-Cuts-and-the-Budget-Deficit

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