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Reported by Bloomberg News:
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- A senior member of the U.S. Houses tax-writing Ways and Means Committee from California has been taking advantage of a tax break for a home in Maryland that he claims as his principal residence.
Representative Pete Stark, the second-ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means panel, in 2007 and 2008 saved a total of $3,853 in state and Anne Arundel County taxes on a Maryland waterfront home that he claims as his primary residence, according to Maryland tax disclosures.
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Stark, 77, confirmed in a telephone interview last week that he and his wife, Deborah, are registered to vote in Californias 13th congressional district using the address of her parents in San Lorenzo, about 25 miles southeast of San Francisco. Stark also said both he and his wife have California drivers licenses.
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Stark, in the telephone interview, said, Insofar as I know, Im obeying the law. He said that he stays in the Maryland home about two-thirds of the year and that, I dont have, I dont own another residence. He also said he rents an apartment in his district where he stays when he is there.
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How has this not made major news? This is a rich, white man that is representing a predominantly poor, black population, and he doesn't even live in the state?
2/3 of his time in Maryland, and he rents a home in the District when there?
Kick the bum out!
Reported by Bloomberg News:
March 19 (Bloomberg) -- A senior member of the U.S. Houses tax-writing Ways and Means Committee from California has been taking advantage of a tax break for a home in Maryland that he claims as his principal residence.
Representative Pete Stark, the second-ranking Democrat on the Ways and Means panel, in 2007 and 2008 saved a total of $3,853 in state and Anne Arundel County taxes on a Maryland waterfront home that he claims as his primary residence, according to Maryland tax disclosures.
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Stark, 77, confirmed in a telephone interview last week that he and his wife, Deborah, are registered to vote in Californias 13th congressional district using the address of her parents in San Lorenzo, about 25 miles southeast of San Francisco. Stark also said both he and his wife have California drivers licenses.
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Stark, in the telephone interview, said, Insofar as I know, Im obeying the law. He said that he stays in the Maryland home about two-thirds of the year and that, I dont have, I dont own another residence. He also said he rents an apartment in his district where he stays when he is there.
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How has this not made major news? This is a rich, white man that is representing a predominantly poor, black population, and he doesn't even live in the state?
2/3 of his time in Maryland, and he rents a home in the District when there?
Kick the bum out!
