Fees Are For the Little People
(Via Kerry Spot)
Remember Leona Helmsley saying that only the little people pay taxes? Well Kerry appears to think that applies to airport fees as well.
When the biggest plane to ever land on [Nantucket] touched down with U.S. Sen. John Kerry and his entourage, airport manager Al Peterson never imagined he would have trouble getting paid.
Kerry just raised a record-breaking $99.2 million in three months, and his personal finances reach the $1 billion threshold with his wife, Theresa Heinz Kerry.
But a caterer who bought food on the island for Kerry's campaign jet ducked one bill and haggled over another.
"Apparently they don't feel like he needs to pay fees to the airport," Peterson said. "I gather the senator objects to that because his aide quoted him as saying that he already pays taxes on the island."