They're not paying taxes because they're elitist hypocrites

Report: DNC repeatedly delinquent on property taxes

By: David Freddoso

Just across the Potomac, Democrats are attacking GOP House candidate Keith Fimian for once having a tax lien placed on his business (he later paid it off). But as it turns out, the Democratic National Committee is one of Washington, D.C.’s perennial tax scofflaws, Pajamas Media reports:

The Democratic National Committee and the party’s private club in the nation’s capitol have been delinquent with tax payments on sixteen separate occasions over the last seven years, Pajamas Media has learned.

According to District of Columbia government records, since 2004 the Democrats’ main political committee and its National Democratic Club — an exclusive restaurant and hideaway on Capitol Hill where prominent Democrats and their guests dine — have been hit with fines and interest penalties in excess of $115,000 for failure to pay their property taxes on time.

Officials at the D.C. Office of Tax and Revenue reviewed tax records with Pajamas Media. Government records here and here paint a picture of two highly visible political establishments that have been tax deadbeats for most of the last seven years. This year, the club fell so far into tax arrears that it was listed as part of a D.C. government “tax sale” in August. The DNC and the club finally paid the property taxes in September to dodge a government seizure and a public auction sale.