Claire McCaskill's reputation took perhaps its biggest hit in her nearly five years in the U.S. Senate on Monday when she admitted that she hadn't paid personal property taxes on her private aircraft. This from a woman who once investigated tax scofflaws as Missouri's state auditor.

In a conference call with reporters [Monday], McCaskill described her failure to register the plane with the St. Louis County revenue department a "mistake" and said she had sent the county a check for $287,000 in back taxes covering the past four years.

But could it be that McCaskill's gesture only makes her seem more out of touch with the poor and working-class Missourians she represents?

One could make that assumption considering that the county has no idea how much it is actually owed for the plane's back taxes — which could be far less than the more than quarter-of-a-million dollars McCaskill forked over yesterday.

Supposedly not paying the taxes was a simple mistake. Yet she went to the trouble of registering the plane in Delaware, then moving it to Illinois, apparently to cheat her own state out of the money.

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dai...lane_taxes.php


Reminds me of another democrat tax cheater and his yacht.