I was just reading an article where it was said he was seen berthing in Nantucket. According to Mass law, if he docks it in Mass, he will still have to pay the taxes, so he may be stuck paying it anyway.

It is almost funny if the crassness of the libs wasn’t so sad.

who knew

That’s especially true of sailing yachts. There is still some powerboat building in the US but mostly it is specialized high-dollar sportfishing yachts. There is a bit of a West Coast business in trawler-type long distance cruisers, but pretty much the only thing that keeps American boatbuilding alive is that you can’t carry passengers for hire unless you have an American-built bottom. There is a huge business in berthing charter yachts in the Caribean or in Mexico both to avoid the price of an American bottom and to avoid US taxes. Many states put stringent limits on stay lenght in an attempt to capture taxes from visiting vessels. Of course, that cuts into the busines of other entities that might profit from the vessel’s stay. There are several 100′+ vessels in the public harbor next to my marina right now. Neither the State nor Juneau tax boats and only regulate the largest ones, so we have a big, big yacht traffic every summer. I’ve seen most of Power and Motoryacht’s Top 100 yachts over the years. We could actually use a good bit more dockage for larger vessels because so many stay on the hook and lighter because there is no room for them. Transient moorage fees for these large yachts are several hundred dollars a day, they buy fuel, stores, their passengers and crews shop in town and hang out in the bars and restaurants, though I’m sure the cuisine on most of them is better than anything you can get here. Of course, Juneau’s high costs have an effect even on this business as many people who own larger boats here keep them over in Hoonah, about sixty miles away, to save on moorage.

Many in that bracket are also as you describe. Many are small business owners that employ others.

A lot of them are paying the AMT so they get hit hard by taxes, but obviously not as hard as those that earn more.

shouldn’t he just use a wind-powered sailboat instead of something that’s causing us all to choke to death on his carbon emissions?

…it’s actually pronounced “throat wobbler mangrove”…

Either John “Jenjiss” Kerry (who, he never fails to remind us, served in Vietnam) is so arrogant and detached as to not understand the hypocrisy here, or he thinks the rest of us are so stupid that he can get away with lying about this deal, The great thing is that he looks awful no matter which it is.

I wish Okilahoma would suspend the sales tax on yachts.

tossing and turning in his silk sheets, the valet bringing him warm milk and a sedative, so troubled his he by the plight of, could it be otherwise, working families.
Relief is on the way, a VAT for the huddled masses as the Republican “bluff” is called. We wouldn’t want to spoil middle America, would we!

is that Lurch will change his behavior to avoid taxes, while supercharging domestic taxes and regulations without recognizing that it chases commerce out of the country. His (party’s) synapses do not connect.

D-crats love to tax you to death, then tax your death, and have repeatedly shown that they will raise every tax and impose every fee that they can dream up to get them more money. But, like lunatic-left socialist d-crat TAX CHEATS geithner, rangel, daschle, olbermann, killifer, solis, kirk, sebelius, kerry and millions more, they hate to pay taxes for the bonuses, bailouts, pork and socialist welfare boondoggles they create, and they’ll cheat the government out of every penny they can.

Thurston (and Lovey) aren’t too bright if they thought their half million dollar tax evasion would be kept secret from us small people.

Note to Thurston: not all the press leans left.

It’s all about maintenance.

Obviously, nobody in his home state is qualified to work on the new boat, so he’s parking it where it was designed and purchased, in Rhode Island. Perfectly understandable. It’s the same reason I park my Honda Gold Wing where it was designed, right over there in Tokyo.

from the same party no less. When I heard about what Kerry has done, I instantly thought of Russ Carnahan. http://wadingacross.wordpress.com/2010/07/23/rubba-dub-dub-kerry-follows-carnahan/

…didn’t see fit to report this story?

You get one guess.

When Rose passed away, the Kennedy family proclaimed that Rose was a resident of Florida despite the fact that she hadn’t left the Kennedy compound in Hyannis, MA in the previous 10 years. Florida’s estate taxes were far lower than those in MA at the time. Ah, its good to be a liberal in MA!

knowing that every day and often during the night he has to face the reality that George Bush kicked his ass.

crazy talk

Isn’t this great, these democrats are calling for the rich to pay more taxes, yet they do everything they can to get out of paying taxes taxes , even just not pay them.

The clueless rubes who populate your state will continue to reelect you ad infinitum. Let your hypocrisy continue. And by the way, I think you are beautiful man with hair like a pony.

It is no surprise the Lord John Forbes Kerry the 1st docks his yacht in Newport RI to avoid taxes. A couple of years ago a MA state rep who pushed for an increase in the State sales tax was caught on camera buying booze at NH State liquor Store.

The good news is MA is losing another Congressman this year.

…says that if you are a resident of the Commonwealth and you purchase something in a state with no sales tax, such as here in NH, you shall send the sales tax that you would have paid to the coffers in MA (really!). And the Commonwealth recently had the balls to ask the state of NH to help them enforce it, by us watching the critters whenever they come up here to spend their dollars tax-free. The measure failed when our governor realized that it would cost NH taxpayers to set up a new agency to do so, and that was hard to justify, even for a governor with a D after his name. Probably because he has an MBA after his name, too.

I almost forgot. Did Kerry remit any “savings” in taxes that he avoided to the Commonwealth? I think the law applies to him as well, even though he was in Vietnam (I thought I would remind everyone of that). Oh yeah, he is a senator too.

“Is there sales tax due?

There is no sales tax on boats unless the boat was purchased prior to July 29, 1993. If sales tax is due, it must be paid to the RI Division of Taxation, One Capitol Hill, Providence, RI (phone 401-222-6278) prior to registration.”

http://www.dem.ri.gov/programs/bpoladm/manserv/hfb/boating/boatfaq.htm

http://tinyurl.com/2ubbun7

And we have a winner. Follow the money trail.

Sen John ‘I served in Vietnam’ Kerry
3 awards of the purple owwie.
votes for TARP, Obama-care, Stimulus, VAT, let the Bush tax cuts expire…..never met a tax he didn’t like.
This man is the poster child for why the current crop of the ruling elite needs to be handed their heads. If we have a real shooting revolution, this guy gets hard labor, IF he lives.

You couldn’t make this up if you tried-
If ever there was a stuffed shirt that could afford it, he should have had the vessel built here. Imagine the sheer arrogance, you’re one of the prime reasons American business is so expensive that it is avoided, and then you go around it screwing the very sheeple that put you in office.

7 MILLION DOLLAR YACHT
Lets hit him on all counts,
1. the vessel was built for he and his wife- in New Zealand
2. Rhode Island has better maintenance facilities
3. and no sales or excise taxes
4. there may also be a break whether income from charters is taxable in RI

Wouldn’t want any redneck-type americans actually deriving
employment from this would we! Might prove Reagan’s trickle down theory works.

Cape Cod Shipbuilding & the port of New Bedford maintenance businesses, due the crushing regulations applied against fishing, is suffering a real crash, adds plenty to unemployment here.

http://www.enterprisenews.com/features/x522013223/Report-U-S-Sen-Kerry-docks-yacht-in-Rhode-Island-saving-500K

http://www.mass.gov/czm/oceanmanagement/waves_of_change/pdf/technicalreport.pdf

But J. Forbes Heinz-Kerry doesn’t see it.
I’ll bet none of his dhimmi-elite neighbors on the islands operate
any differently either.
AND MASSACHUSETTS HAS SO MANY BRAIN-DEAD THAT HE WILL BE REELECTED!
While the journolists keep the masses brainwashed.
“I vote for the democrat! They look out for us!”
Yeah, and i can see how.