So Romney Pays A 15% Tax Rate and Still Wants Lower Taxes?

....just more proof the studies are accurate. Those who lean right are way more generous with their own money than the lefties.
The old saying holds true: "Conservatives are good at giving their own money while the libs are good at giving away other people's money"

 

You guys can't defend the tax rate, his Swiss bank accounts, and his Cayman Island tax dodging accounts so you have to change the topic to charitable giving, which ironically is also tax deductible. Besides, if he didn't give the money to charity, he'd have to pay it in taxes anyway and at the same time he is required to give 10% to the Mormon Church. I doubt that Romney would ever allow a penny to be pried out of his wallet if he wasn't going to lose it to this country in taxes anyway. Feel free to keep apologizing for Richie Rich, he is sinking like a stone in the polls anyway.

 

Apologize? For what? He was generous and followed the laws and constitution. And BO/Biden could not be bothered to lose a sou from their wallets and we will soon find out what they have done to the laws and constitution.

 

Has Romney done anything other than follow the law? If he has violated any part of it please show us.
Now, do you see the hypocrisy in bashing Romney while Geitner & Charles Rangel are in the positions they are in?

 

Absolutely no one has ever suggested that Romney or any other wealthy person is breaking the law. It is however the current Fox News talking point rather than the actual issue of tax fairness. You RW'ers keep trying to bring the issue back to this non-existent fight that you'd rather have rather than the real topic of the inequalities in our tax system that the wealthy people like Romney not only lobby for but personally benefit from at the middle class' expense.

Sorry RW'ers, the issue has never been about criminal behavior, it is about an equitable tax system. The current system was built by and for the wealthy and every fact backs this up unequivocally, so you can try to make the conversation about the letter of the tax law but it is really aboutacknowledging the broken tax system in this country. We're just not that stupid to fall for your pathetic tactics. And neither are the American people apparently. Over 90% of the people polled after Obama's SOTU speech agreed with the unfair tax system as Obama outlined it. That doesn't bode well for Richie Rich nor the Right-wing.

I just have to think that if you are here defending the current tax system, as well as being a victim of it, you must not be terribly bright to begin with. That certainly is a rational assessment of your character.

 

Don't you think Romney probably payed the applicable tax rate when he earned the money the first time around?

 

But "You guys can't defend the tax rate, his Swiss bank accounts, and his Cayman Island tax dodging accounts" does anything but imply that it is a system problem. But then YOU had 2 years of bullet proof control of the House, the Senate, and the Presidency, but YOU could not even pass a budget let alone any tax reform.

BTW, "Over 90% of the people polled after Obama's SOTU speech agreed with the unfair tax system as Obama outlined it." Would you care to rephrase that? 90% agreed with the unfair tax system? Really?

Never mind. Even though you have the numbers wrong, I think I know what you were trying to say.

 

That doesn't even make any sense. How many times can you earn the SAME money?

 

You aren't earning the exact same dollar EDIT you are increasing your wealth by gambling/investing the money you have already earned and been taxed on. Speaking as someone who invests & pays varying tax rates, it is hard sometimes to justify certain investments simply because of the tax liability & risk as opposed to the possible return on investment. My guess would be that it if investment income & capital gains was taxed at 30% there would be a whole lot less investment.

Now let me say this: I would welcome a complete tax code overhaul but you can't just single out the successful.

 

Pure greed, egos and selfishness is what drives most politicians worldwide. They just cannot have it any other way if not their way and this is what Romney is fighting for, control. Americans should have a flat tax rate for all its citizen irrespective of income bracket.

 

Romney really isn't fighting anything, is he?

 

So you are making more money or additional income and you think that just because you paid taxes on the original income, you shouldn't have to pay taxes on any income that comes from reinvesting that income? Really?

 

I didn't say that at all.
If you would like to have a real discussion about our tax code, I'm in.
After I earn my money I have a couple of choices of what to do with it. I can save it or invest it. If I save it, it's safe but the return isn't great. If I invest it I have to weigh the risk vs the return. Right now, when weighing risk vs return, the tax liabilities are a major component. I have passed on investments because the projected return, after taxes, wasn't worth the risk. In taxes are doubled I would limit my investing (stocks, business ventures, etc) even more. I'm a small player but I would imagine the big players would be just as sensitive.
I also know from experience that tax liabilities always factor into a business's operating decisions.

As I've said for years, I advocate the Fair Tax so that everybody contributes.

 

Let me see if I understand you correctly. You are living off of public funds and you want to complain about public funding.

 

So. You think that the Democratic party should return to its platform from the 1960's.
Are you sure that is what you want.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=29602#axzz1kb1LYXmW

 

I don't know about him, but I would and will. It is the money that is corrupting our system of government. The politicians on all sides are guilty of the same corruption and should be held to the exact same ethical strictures. I would apply the same rule of political funding to unions that I would to corporations. I don't support the idea of a flat tax because it would unfairly impact the working poor who are closer to economic collapse than the wealthy, but I do support the idea that the tax laws should be applied equally depending on income level. I also support the elimination of all tax escapes for religious organizations from Southern Baptist churches to Scientology auditing centers.

 

Oh, hell no! Their platform wasn't any good 50 years ago either. What I'm saying is that they've gotten even worse over the years.

 

Mitt Romney paid 857 times more in taxes than I did last year.

Mitt Romney paid the Earned Income Tax Credit for 1400 families last year.

 

And that couple might have brought themselves an ambassdorship to Switzland or a presidential pardon in the future if Newt won. The real problem with PAC's is that outside governments can find ways of creating them and funding them therefore determing who can win various seats of power. Shame this site does not have a spell check for the later it gets the dumber I become. Hey if I stay up all night, I just might become a democrat!

 

Hey I've been cheated out a victory. Reminds me of the olympic basketball game against USSR.