"PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE!"

John Kerry is your typical Democrat in that he spouts off like a busted hydrant all the platitudes about the “rich paying their fair share.” Here’s a quote from remarks he made to the AFL-CIO:

“I am going to ask America’s wealthiest people – those making over $200,000 a year – to pay the same fair share they paid under Bill Clinton.” (emphasis mine)

This comes as no shock to anyone who has been around Democrats for more than five minutes. What might come as a shock to you is John Kerry declines to pay his fair share when given the chance.

In Kerry’s home state, the People’s Republic of Massachusetts, the legislature passed a law that allows those civic minded people to pay a higher tax rate if they want to. The true Democrats of the state can elect to pay at a rate of 5.85% instead of the 5.3% if they feel they haven’t paid their fair share to education and health care. Of course, as you would expect, the people who time and time again elect Ted Kennedy to the Senate have volunteered to pay this extra tax at a rate of mere 500 to 1,600,000. And of those 500, guess how many rich Senators from the People’s Republic have volunteered to pay their fair share?

Zero.

Here is a copy/summary of Kerry’s 2002 tax return sent to Howie Carr by the Kerry campaign. As you can see, the taxes Kerry paid were at the 5.3% rate ($7,386 on $137,480). Now, as for Kennedy, a blogger has what I am sure is a copy of a news story that indicates no one in Hyannis paid the alternate tax and, as the blogger points out, Hyannis’ leading citizen is Teddy K.

Kerry/Kennedy – they want YOU to pay their fair share.