Romney's Taxes

[Budmantom]

The tax itself, plus people who try to evade taxes annoy me as well.

Like a Warren Buffet?

 

[Budmantom]

Riiiiight. He paid almost $2,000,000.00 in taxes and that's "little taxes"?

Fern

I'm sure it pales in comparison to what Obama paid, after all he is all for people like him paying more.

How much did Obama pay?

 

[Budmantom]

Don't confuse the LDS church with a legit charity such as MSF. The Mormon church is not a charity, even if they may do some charitable works. Their purpose is to spread their religion, not charitable works. The LDS church is a very wealthy business-like organization.


The tithe are used to fund their missionary program, building/maintain churches, church educational system and billion dollar malls. They also funded the campaign such as support of prop 8 in California.


I would guess a tiny percentage of the tithes they receive are actually used for legit charity work. Nobody knows, since there is no transparency in their fiances. Propselyzing is not charity.

You seem to know a lot about the Mormon church, now tell us about the BLT church that Obama gave less the .4% to in 2002.

 

[chowderhead]

The Romneys listed USA as a foreign country on their 2011 tax returns.
http://www.mittromney.com/disclosure/mitt/tax-return/2011/wmr-adr-return

I cannot believe the Republicans picked this guy as the standard bearer for their party. REALLY?

 

[cybrsage]

Which page is it on?

 

[Smoblikat]

I demand to see the long form version of his taxes. That's the only true way to know.

I demand to see the long from of obamas college transcripts, thats the only true way to know.

 

[cybrsage]

I demand to see the long form version of his taxes. That's the only true way to know.

379 pages is not long enough?

 

[umbrella39]

I demand to see the long from of obamas college transcripts, thats the only true way to know.

Pathetic.

 

[cybrsage]

Pathetic.

I agree, it is pathetic that Obama, who claimed to run a transparent administration, is hiding something so important.

 

[nehalem256]

379 pages is not long enough?

Maybe that is why he won't release 10 years. He was thinking about the trees

 

[soundforbjt]

I demand to see the long from of obamas college transcripts, thats the only true way to know.

I demand to see Romney's schematics...thats the only true way to know...

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

The Romneys listed USA as a foreign country on their 2011 tax returns.
http://www.mittromney.com/disclosure/mitt/tax-return/2011/wmr-adr-return

I cannot believe the Republicans picked this guy as the standard bearer for their party. REALLY?

I really hope this gets hammered on all the way until the election. I can just imagine the wingnut reaction if Obama had done this.

 

[cybrsage]

I really hope this gets hammered on all the way until the election. I can just imagine the wingnut reaction if Obama had done this.

What page it is on?

 

[IBMer]

What page it is on?

Its on the very first page, a few lines down. Look for "USA" and then whats about it. In all fairness he obviously doesn't do his own taxes.

 

[cybrsage]

Oh that? Pfft...that is just a slip by his accounting firm. This is even less of an issue than Obama saying there are more than 50 states in the US. Quite silly.

If this is what the dems are resorting to using against Romney, they are in worse shape than I thought.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

Oh that? Pfft...that is just a slip by his accounting firm. This is even less of an issue than Obama saying there are more than 50 states in the US. Quite silly.

If this is what the dems are resorting to using against Romney, they are in worse shape than I thought.

No, they are correctly pointing out that he hasn't released past tax returns, unlike all other presidential candidates (including Obama and his own father!).

And now we know he was stated multiple lies:

-He always pays at least 13% in taxes
-He always pays the legal minimum in taxes (doesn't intentionally pay more)
-He isn't fit to be President if he didn't pay the minimum

And now we find out he lied again, since he intentionally didn't deduct all his possible deductions, just to meet the 13% goal of his.

If he had, he would have paid ~9%....Ooops!

So when a guy lies that much (and that poorly), what else is he doing wrong?

Just what is on his past 4-5 years of taxes that he is so afraid for people to see? Wanna guess?

 

[xBiffx]

ROFLMAO!

People complain he didn't pay enough taxes. Now the same people are complaining that he didn't take enough deductions so that he could pay more taxes. Now he is evil for paying more than the legal amount. So those same people are now saying he should have payed less taxes. Wow.

Liberal mental gymnastics once again.

 

[wayliff]

A lot of attention is put into this tax thing...

Romney, since he supposedly has nothing to hide or be ashamed of, should just release the dang returns and everyone happy...move on. If there's something fishy or tricksy then well...what can I say.
If that costs him the presidency, maybe he should have not even tried to begin with.

I don't care if he made US$50 million in 6 months. Good for him.

 

[nehalem256]

ROFLMAO!

People complain he didn't pay enough taxes. Now the same people are complaining that he didn't take enough deductions so that he could pay more taxes. Now he is evil for paying more than the legal amount. So those same people are now saying he should have payed less taxes. Wow.

Liberal mental gymnastics once again.

They are also implicitly complaining about Romney donating charity.

Why don't they just have the balls to come out and say they do not think donating to charity should be ta deductible?

 

[wayliff]

Well, Obama was not much for making any kind of charitable donations until he started his run for the presidency, so it is good to see how consistent Romney has been in doing so.

Obama's charitable donations as reported by the Washington Post,
2005: $77,315 to charity out of income of $1.66 million (4.6 percent)
2004: $2,500 out of $207,647 (1.2 percent)
2003: $3,400 out of $238,327 (1.4 percent)
2002: $1,050 out of $259,394 (0.4 percent)

Not to defend anyone...but based on that little chart, it makes sense, to me, why anyone would donate more once higher income is achieved.

I don't see anything wrong here.

 

[Smoblikat]

I was asking if you give Obama's birth certificate 0% credibility...

I give it 0% credibility. It has too many holes and flaws for it to be real. I also give these tax returns 100% credibility.

 

[xBiffx]

Let the flaming begin in 3..2..1.

 

[Todd33]

ROFLMAO!

People complain he didn't pay enough taxes. Now the same people are complaining that he didn't take enough deductions so that he could pay more taxes. Now he is evil for paying more than the legal amount. So those same people are now saying he should have payed less taxes. Wow.

Liberal mental gymnastics once again.

I don't think that is it at all. The fact is his rate would have been <10% unless he fudged his deductions to make his rate look higher. So he gave some extra cash to LDS (not a real charity IMO) and didn't claim it, why should his tax rate be 9% or 14% when most middle class people pay >20%?

 

[xBiffx]

I don't think that is it at all. The fact is his rate would have been <10% unless he fudged his deductions to make his rate look higher. So he gave some extra cash to LDS (not a real charity IMO) and didn't claim it, why should his tax rate be 9% or 14% when most middle class people pay >20%?

That is the way tax law is written? It's fine if you don't like it, but blaming Romney for it wreaks of partisan antics. Also, trying to pin the guy in some sort of lie about never paying more than legal amount is petty and irrelevant. Its a white lie and it only makes those who have a problem look like partisan hacks.

At least he is sending extra money to a charity instead of flushing down the government toilet.

I payed 22% last year, and wasn't happy about it. But when I hear what Romeny paid, I am not angry with him, but rather the fucked up tax code we have. The IRS combined with the ones in government that empowers them is the target of my anger.

 

[Smoblikat]

I don't think that is it at all. The fact is his rate would have been <10% unless he fudged his deductions to make his rate look higher. So he gave some extra cash to LDS (not a real charity IMO) and didn't claim it, why should his tax rate be 9% or 14% when most middle class people pay >20%?

Doesnt roughly 50% of the country pay 0% federal income tax?