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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2007 - 21:03:41 EST
Remember Ed Kelly saying you should check with a lawyer? You'll find that
different states have different ways of deciding residency. Texas says "your
domicile is where you believe it to be". It's not only the "elite". Some years
ago some homeless people tried to register to vote in Austin, claiming their
domicile was "under the I-35 bridge". They were denied the right to register,
sued, and won. That was where they believed their domicle to be.
My domicile (legal residence) is Texas - actually my boat. My license is
there, I'm registered to vote there. Occasionally, I am there. Even though I have
a house in Missouri and spend a lot of time there, I make sure I do nothing to
establish residency there. Like register to vote, buy a resident's fishing
license, claim any tax benefits there. Strangely, I can title a car there, I
just can't buy tags for it. However, in Texas, I can't title a car unless I have
insurance and buy tags for it. Guess where the old Dodge I plan to fix up
someday is titled?
Missouri says if you maintain a permenant home in the state and spend more
more than 180 days in the state, you must file your state income tax as a
resident. Still doesn't make you a resident, though. (this allows them to tax any
income you make in another state.)
If you were to move to Texas, you'd have to title and tag your cars there
BEFORE getting a license there. In Missouri, you must get your license there
before you are allowed to get tags there.
To make it more strange, I have boats registered in 4 states.
Anyway, you need to check out the laws that apply to where you plan to
"reside".
By the way, Bush didn't rent the room, he just claimed the address.
Gene Gruender
>
> Remember that GWbush claimed residency in Texas (he rented a hotel room
> there) for tax purposes while living in DC and maintaining his real residence in
> Maine. If such mechanisms are allowed for the elite then certainly we
> homeless ones should be able to do the same.
>
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