AdamT
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Re: Romney's tax rate is only half as high as the middle class pays
Makes perfect sense to me. Maybe if I use different words.... You seem to be saying that Romney is already paying too much in taxes, because he doesn't get back from government what he pays in. Then you said that you have no idea how much benefit he got from the $800 billion TARP program (for example). Thus your main premise is based on pure speculation (and you won't even speculate).
If I was to speculate I would say that Romney got tens of millions of dollars in value from TARP, insofar as his money is tied up in investments which would have lost a substantial percentage of their value if the government had not propped up the banks, and thus the markets. It may be that he got more value from that one action than he will EVER pay in.
read that statement of yours again and rewrite it-it makes no sense-there is either a typo or the wrong word someplace in that comment that buggers things up
Makes perfect sense to me. Maybe if I use different words.... You seem to be saying that Romney is already paying too much in taxes, because he doesn't get back from government what he pays in. Then you said that you have no idea how much benefit he got from the $800 billion TARP program (for example). Thus your main premise is based on pure speculation (and you won't even speculate).
If I was to speculate I would say that Romney got tens of millions of dollars in value from TARP, insofar as his money is tied up in investments which would have lost a substantial percentage of their value if the government had not propped up the banks, and thus the markets. It may be that he got more value from that one action than he will EVER pay in.