{"id":3485,"date":"2009-03-23T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3485"},"modified":"2009-03-23T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T17:04:09","slug":"the_political_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3485","title":{"rendered":"The Political Class &#038; Taxes, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/03\/pete-stark-hous.html\">Andrew Malcolm<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Oh-oh, looks like more tax troubles for another Democrat in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s Rep. Pete Stark, a senior House Democrat who helps write the nation&#8217;s tax laws, has been claiming a $1.7 million Maryland home as his principal residence in recent years, although he represents the Golden State&#8217;s 13th District on the east side of San Francisco Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old Stark has saved himself nearly $3,900 in state and county taxes by claiming the six-acre waterfront estate as his principal residence, according to an investigation by Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland law allows the tax break only to those residences used &#8220;for the legal purposes of voting, obtaining a driver&#8217;s license, and filing income tax returns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notified of the discovery, a state official said an investigation would be launched.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/washington\/2009\/03\/pete-stark-hous.html\">Andrew Malcolm<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Oh-oh, looks like more tax troubles for another Democrat in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>California&#8217;s Rep. Pete Stark, a senior House Democrat who helps write the nation&#8217;s tax laws, has been claiming a $1.7 million Maryland home as his principal residence in recent years, although he represents the Golden State&#8217;s 13th District on the east side of San Francisco Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old Stark has saved himself nearly $3,900 in state and county taxes by claiming the six-acre waterfront estate as his principal residence, according to an investigation by Bloomberg News.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland law allows the tax break only to those residences used &#8220;for the legal purposes of voting, obtaining a driver&#8217;s license, and filing income tax returns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Notified of the discovery, a state official said an investigation would be launched.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}