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HOLY COW! Hypocrite Bill Nelson milks the taxpayers for personal gain.
Bill Nelson’s hypocrisy now smells as bad as a cow paddy.
The Miami Herald has reported that Florida’s multi-millionaire liberal is now using loopholes in the tax code to get tens of thousands of dollars in tax write-offs even though he doesn’t live on a farm or own the livestock.
Thanks to a half-dozen cows that graze Nelson’s 55 acres on the Indian River, he saved $43,000 in property taxes last year.
Nelson does not live there or own the cows. He leases the land, at no cost, to a cattle operation. Nelson says he gets to preserve undeveloped land while providing for a waning industry.
Yet the small herd has saved Nelson big taxes. The land has a full market value of $2.7 million, but the county tax collector uses the agricultural value of $210,000. That reduced Nelson’s tax bill in 2011 to $3,696.