If Romney Wins, He Wins and Obama Wins...Financially. We lose.

I understand wealthy people voting for Romney. They are purely self-interested selfish people and I can understand people being selfish self-interested greedy un-American losers. That is your right as an American. I completely get it. Greedy has always been part of Capitalism. It’s not the only option but it is practiced often enough to make it a staple of the Capitalist system.

Then we have people that will end up paying more taxes so that those same wealthy people can pay less. Them I don't get. They are not self-interested or greedy or selfish, they are just stupid for falling for divisive issues and ignoring the consequences of failing to see the whole picture. The GOP divides this country with divisive issues like abortion, guns, and religion and gets low information single-issue voters to vote for their main constituents, the wealthy, a nice raise in the form of tax break or spending by any other name.

WASHINGTON — To see where the presidential candidates stand on taxing the rich, just look at how they'd tax themselves. Under his own proposal, Mitt Romney would pay half what he would under President Barack Obama's tax plan. For a man of Romney's means, that could save almost $5 million a year.
For Obama, not so loaded as Romney but still well-off, losing re-election could provide a tax windfall. He'd save as much as $90,000 a year if Romney's plan were enacted rather than his own tax-the-rich vision.
Two nonprofit research groups, the liberal-leaning Citizens for Tax Justice and conservative-leaning Tax Foundation, did the calculations, based on the most recent completed tax returns released by the candidates. Compared with what they owed in April, both men would be dinged in 2013 under Obama's proposal, along with other wealthy taxpayers. They could expect savings under Romney, depending on which tax breaks the former Massachusetts governor decides to oppose.

 

Sorry, Joe, but when you start a post by denigrating "wealthy people" in general, you're not really setting up a reasonable basis for dialog. I do get it though. Neither you nor those you [don't] engage with here are really interested in dialog, instead you and they prefer to vent bile.

 

I am simply stating the reality of both candidates’ tax plans. And by the way, I thought I was defending wealthy people. I get where they are coming from as I have said. What I don't get is those that allow wedge issues to persuade them to vote against their own financial best interests. At least greedy wealthy people make some sense. I just don't get those that support them. Where do you find people that clueless?

 

Right next to Waldow...?