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- <text id=92TT0398>
- <title>
- Feb. 24, 1992: Nation Notes:Politics
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Feb. 24, 1992 Holy Alliance
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 27
- Nation Notes
- POLITICS
- Read My Returns
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Although George Bush lives in the White House and frequently
- visits his vacation home in Kennebunkport, he pays no income
- taxes in either Washington or Maine. Instead, the President's
- official residence for tax purposes is a rented Houston hotel
- suite; Texas is one of seven states that have no income tax. In
- a recent Doonesbury strip, cartoonist Garry Trudeau advised
- readers to declare their "intention to eventually live in Texas...and save big--just like the President." He included a
- coupon that could be used to apply for Texas residency.
- </p>
- <p> So far, more than 30,000 people have sent in the forms to
- state comptroller John Sharp, who is going along with the joke
- by mailing applicants an "official" Texas-citizenship
- certificate. But since the certificate alone will not help
- non-Texans cut their taxes, Sharp advises them to "kiss Aunt
- Tillie goodbye and move down to God's own country."
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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