*One to watch* Romney paid 14.1 percent effective tax rate in 2011

[Jasonw560]

UNM=Useless Numbing Mealymouthing

[BattleHymn]

nmbluesky (2,197 posts)                                                                                                                        Fri Sep 21, 2012, 05:53 PM

Are you happy?

Am I? no I am not satisfaction romeny tax release. He releases only in 2011. I want to see his 12 years tax.why he's still refuse.. What does he hide?

What is this primitive's major, Yoda-speak?  Let me try talking to him:



Hide his tax he does not?  Search you must this image:



To miskie the image, for hat tip. Hmmmmm.  

[Chris_]

I have a feeling someone is planning to overstay their student visa.

[debk]

Wonder what percentage of their annual income the Obamas give to charity? the Clintons? W Buffet? Nancy Pelosi?

Bet all of them combined don't give as much as the Romneys do.

[Chris_]

Bill has some dry-cleaned underdrawers ready for tax deductible purposes.

[Skul]

The latest spin.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021393721

Fri Sep 21, 2012, 08:51 PM
cthulu2016 (4,692 posts)

Charitable giving is NOT equivalent to paying taxes. That parts right, it's better, no government "middleman".
Last edited Fri Sep 21, 2012, 09:13 PM USA/ET - Edit history (5)

There is no categorical difference between giving to charity and buying a jet ski. Really??
It is what you want to do with your money. my bolding

You choose to give to charity for whatever reason you choose to give to charity.

It is what you want to do with your money... an expression of individual priorities. That doesn't mean their is anything wrong with charitable giving, of course. I only means that it is what one chooses to do to manifest their priorities.

So this whole thing of conflating Romney's tax payments and his charitable (sic) giving is demented.

The thing about paying taxes is that it is not an expression of your moral values, your sense of self, your ego, your priorites... your tax money goes to what the American electorate decides lawyers in congess to do with the money. fixed

If you are handy with that old devil Arithmetic it is easy to see that all taxpayers subsidize the charitable donations of individual taxpayers. It is lost revenue that must be made up by everyone else somehow. Now, I had to pay a little something to invade Iraq. That was awful, but my nation had decided to invade Iraq so I get it.

But why did I also have have to pay a little something to the LDS church's massive $6 billion stock and bond portfolio? All taxpayers do subsidize that portfolio. Again... it is lost revenue that has to come from somewhere.

Giving money to build a gigantic temple of gold that only Mormons of a certain rank can enter is not any sensible sort of charitable giving. Giving money to baptize dead non-Mormon celebrities is not charity. Giving money to fund a political campaign to ban marriage equality in California is not charity. Giving money to convert people in the third world to some particular religion is not charity.

And tithing is no more "required" than paying your annual dues to the NRA is required. It is only "required" if you choose to belong to the NRA. 

On and on they went, doing their best to trash charities. It's full of stupid.
DUmpmonkeys don't have a clue what a deduction is, or for.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

PearliePoo2 (2,512 posts)

So last year Mittens donated over $4 million to charity, eh?

 I'd be interested in seeing what those charities were.
I would be really surprised if there were ANY that weren't LDS related.
Personally, I don't consider the Mormon church a charity case.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021391690

I'd wager they would consider donating the terrorist group such as the Holy Land Foundation to be charitable.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

"It only counts if you don't like it!"

That's just pathetic.

Jerry D Shill, you're a sad, sad little man.

[Kyle Ricky]

Pricewaterhousecooper has had some controversy over the years. I am surprised they aren't bringing that up. Then they are also the main firm that Berkshire Hathaway uses to do their taxes, so they could let it go since Buffett (Who, I must admit, is a business hero of mine) is a liberal.

[ADsOutburst]

The latest spin.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021393721On and on they went, doing their best to trash charities. It's full of stupid.
DUmpmonkeys don't have a clue what a deduction is, or for.

This represents their next step in warping the minds of Americans. The last was to make everyone afraid to say they are in any way self-reliant. The next is downplaying the moral significance of voluntary giving.

[Freeper]

It is lost revenue that must be made up by everyone else somehow.

 

Hey DUmmy how about if you get your wish and we tax the rich at a gazillion percent and they simply give up working, investing and making any money at all.  Won't that "lost revenue" have to be made up by the rest of us?

 

[J P Sousa]

  Charitable giving is NOT equivalent to paying taxes. 

  There is no categorical difference between giving to charity and buying a jet ski.   

 

The DUmmies twist themselves into millions of pretzels to justify communism.

 
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[Kyle Ricky]

I think the DUmp is full of the most stupid people in America. Wow, the stupid runs wild over there.

[AprilRazz]

Response to Gold Metal Flake (Reply #23)
Fri Sep 21, 2012, 04:00 PM
 madinmaryland (49,762 posts)
35. I doubt whether he ever used form 1040EZ. Nowhere to put the Cayman Island accounts!

The Caymen Islands?
Oh the place where George Soros keeps all his money so he doesn't have to pay taxes on it?

[I_B_Perky]

Romney paid 14.1 percent effective tax rate in 2011

Which is 14.1 percent more than any dummie ever paid... and I ain't adding in what the parasitic dummies get from the government.   

[Jasonw560]

You know, these DUmmies could have watched Romney sit there with his accountant and go over the long tax forms live, been part of the discussion, and gone over them themselves, asking questions and had Romney's bank statements available to them, and they still would claim he was a crook.

If something doesn't fit into their world view, they go ballistic.

But that's fine by me.

[Chris_]

You know, these DUmmies could have watched Romney sit there with his accountant and go over the long tax forms live, been part of the discussion, and gone over them themselves, asking questions and had Romney's bank statements available to them, and they still would claim he was a crook.

If something doesn't fit into their world view, they go ballistic.

But that's fine by me.

They'll never accept the truth.  Even when they're shown to be wrong (ie. "Romney paid no income taxes"), they move on to something else equally silly.  He may have paid money to Uncle Sugar but he didn't pay "enough".

You can't win with those people.  Forget 'em.