Group says Santorum gets improper tax break

[corporatemedia]

Group says Santorum gets improper tax break
By Tribune-Review
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
A political action group Tuesday presented Allegheny County Council with a petition saying U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum is improperly receiving a tax exemption for a house he owns in Penn Hills.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/search/s_326168.html

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Wednesday, April 20, 2005 By Jerome L. Sherman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"If we do have somebody who, in essence, has been accused of defrauding the county of tax money, shouldn't we use every means to try to recoup that money?" asked (Allegheny County) Council President Rich Fitzgerald, a Democrat. "If they do not live in their home but are taking the homestead exemption, that's fraud."

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05110/491029.stm

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[hezekkia]

1. down with Santorum! n/t

[Richard Steele]

2. This is just the tip of the iceberg...

So many elected officials are just FLOATING members of the ruling class...
They claim an address wherever they need to further their careers.

Our states have 'residency requirements' for a reason, and those requirements are a JOKE nowadays.

B*SH is an Ivy-league FratBoy who pretends to be a Texan...and claims an Illinois PO box as 'residence' on his tax returns.

Here in NC, Ms DOLE gets voted into high office on the strength of her last name, despite the fact that she barely VISITED NC in the last 20 years....

SANTORUM? No surprise; and there are easily DOZENS of others.

They are a mobile, MODULAR 'Ruling Class'; they go wherever the PARTY needs them to run.

[spinbaby]

3. Whoa!

* claims an Illinois post-office box as his residence? I've never heard that. Do you have a link for this? If true, we need to raise a stink about it.

[Richard Steele]

5. Damn! It was a Thread here on DU yesterday...

..But I can't find it now!

I just spent 10 minutes searching DU and GOOGLE; my keywords are returning NOTHING!

The DEAL was: On his 1040 form, the PREZ lists his 'address' as some PO box in Chicago. It's the PO address of the financial firm which handles his Trust funds...AKA 99% of his money.

EDIT: FOUND IT!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1735687

[truthisfreedom]

4. link please to this Illinois bush po box tax fraud...

we all want to know.

[Richard Steele]

6. found link...see post above. n/t

[ClintonTyree]

12. Cheney...

rules prohibit Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates from living in the same state. Cheney had to hustle to get his address changed to Wyoming before he was nominated, thus avoiding a Constitutional crisis.

They all do it, Dems and Reps. They all push the envelope in that area.

[Momgonepostal]

7. Didn't Santorum lie about residence to get his kids...

...into a special distance learning school? I recall reading an article a few months ago that said something to that effect. He's a sneaky creep.

[meganmonkey]

8. Yup! And media matters talked about it again recently:

The arrangement by which five of Santorum's children living in Herndon, Virginia, participated in a Penn Hills, Pennsylvania, "cyber charter school" reportedly cost local taxpayers more than $100,000. While Santorum and his wife, Karen, own a house in Penn Hills, "records at the Allegheny County Election Office also show that the couple are not the only people claiming the home as their residence" and "Bart and Alyssa DeLuca, both 25, are registered voters listed for the same address" . Alyssa DeLuca is Karen Santorum's niece.

While the Post reporter apparently did not believe that apparent inconsistencies in a congressman's residency claims merits examination, Santorum himself might disagree. During his 1990 congressional campaign, Santorum "unseated Democratic Rep. Doug Walgren after running attack ads criticizing Walgren for buying a house and raising his three children in McLean, Va." . A local Pennsylvania paper noted that Santorum called Walgren a "carpetbagger" for living outside his district .

In response to the Santorum controversy and similar cases of families with questionable residency statuses enrolling children in the "cyber-school," the Penn Hills school board passed a resolution asking the Pennsylvania Department of Education to consider changes to the state's school code intended to "provide a clearer definition of residency for all school districts in the commonwealth" .

The Los Angeles Times reported on November 19, 2004, that Santorum "said he would pull his five children out of an Internet-based school paid for by Pennsylvania taxpayers after coming under criticism because the family lives much of the time in Virginia." A Nexis search showed that, aside from the Post's cursory treatment on April 18, the Times article was the only mention of the issue by any major newspaper outside of Pennsylvania.



http://mediamatters.org/items/200504190006

[wicket]

9. he sure did!

He's such a scumbag. It cost the taxpayers of his town over $100,000!!!!

[Roland99]

10. Santorum wants to ban National Weather Service Internet forecasts

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/news/epaper/2005/04/21/m1a_wx_0421.html

[LynneSin]

11. "Santorum has lived in Penn Hills since 1995"

Santorum spokeswoman Christine Shott described the petition as a political attack. She said Santorum has lived in Penn Hills since 1995

Folks:

This is Rick Santorum's house in Penn Hills:


This is a 3 bedroom house where supposively Rick Santorum, his wife, his six kids and 2 relatives ALL live in this house

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/3/14/1835/71563

Yeah right!

[ClintonTyree]

13. And Cons make jokes about....

Mexicans. :eyes:
Santorum is engaging in fraud and should be dealt with accordingly. I wonder which laws his other 2 family members are breaking by living there? Mr. "Holier Than Thou" is teaching his kids a great lesson here. It's alright to cheat if you don't get caught.