"On Monday, McCaskill acknowledged that she had failed to pay more than $287,000 in personal property taxes on the plane. “I’m being held accountable, like I should be,” she said on a press call about the tax issue. “I made this mistake.”
The optics for McCaskill couldn’t be worse. Not only does she have a private plane — a luxury most people only dream about — but more than a quarter of a million dollars in taxes on said aircraft went unpaid. It amounts to a political double whammy."
Who had the worst week in Washington? Sen. Claire McCaskill
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