GOP congressmen dodge taxes by living in "church"

[wyethwire]

Weird. Weird. Weird.

GOP congressmen get taxpayer susidized rent. The church gets tax free staus on a real estate scam.

http://www.scdp.org/blog.php?blog_id=47

Exactly where a member of Congress lives when on duty in our nation's capital is usually not of particular interest to the folks back home. Jim DeMint, the three-term Congressman from Greenville and current GOP nominee for Senate, has pursued a different course. He lives in a church.

Well, it's not really a church, but a four-story townhouse on C Street two blocks from the Capitol. In 2002, Lisa Getter of the Los Angeles Times reported that the 8,000-square-foot townhouse has 12 bedrooms, nine bathrooms, five living rooms, three offices, a kitchen and a small chapel. DeMint is one of eight members of Congress who live there, paying an enviable $600 a month rent in a tight Washington real estate market.

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[DemBones DemBones]

1. I thought the Fellowship house was out in a suburb -- or

is that another religious-oriented group that owns a house? There was a big article about the one I'm talking about a year or two ago, in The Atlantic, IIRC. It is online.

[wyethwire]

2. the Fellowship is downtown

within walking distance of Capitol Hill

[wyethwire]

3. I think Steve Largent lived in the same house

[wyethwire]

5. kick

[wyethwire]

4. and DeMint wants to raise taxes on rent

his 23 percent national sales tax would raise the cost of rent by 69 dollars on a $600 apartment