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Mitt Romney: 'I Never Paid Less Than 13 Percent' In Taxes

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Trust you ?? err NO...just show the returns....btw mitt ive paid 13 or more everyyear too..but not on your hundreds of millions.


Mitt Romney said on Thursday that he has paid at least a 13 percent tax rate every year for the past 10 years, directly rebuking an allegation by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) that he paid effectively nothing in income taxes during that time period.
The presumptive Republican nominee was taking questions in Greenville, S.C. with the design of defending his Medicare plan against attacks from Democrats. But the questions gradually turned elsewhere, with the final one going back to the issue that’s vexed Romney for more than a month.



Mitt Romney: 'I Never Paid Less Than 13 Percent' In Taxes
 
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Mitt Romney needs to come clean with the American people if he wants to lead this country. We don't choose the most important leader in the world on your "word" Mr. Romney.
 
disneydude said:
Mitt Romney needs to come clean with the American people if he wants to lead this country. We don't choose the most important leader in the world on your "word" Mr. Romney.
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That sounds kinda birther or schooler. Perhaps Romney is hiding the records because he was a foreign exchange student?
 
disneydude said:
Mitt Romney needs to come clean with the American people if he wants to lead this country. We don't choose the most important leader in the world on your "word" Mr. Romney.
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He cant now...
 
disneydude said:
Mitt Romney needs to come clean with the American people if he wants to lead this country. We don't choose the most important leader in the world on your "word" Mr. Romney.
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Then how did you choose Obama?
 
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I wouldn't doubt that Mitt paid more than 13% on his income. Yet I have 2 questions, Why is that less than the tax rate of the middle class and how much of your income did you pay that on?
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1060808644 said:
Then how did you choose Obama?
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Obama released 10 years. Romney is obviously hiding something that he doesn't want the American people to see.
 
TheLastIndependent said:
I wouldn't doubt that Mitt paid more than 13% on his income. Yet I have 2 questions, Why is that less than the tax rate of the middle class and how much of your income did you pay that on?
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I'm guessing most of his income was from investments , which can be taxed at a lower rate than original income.
 
disneydude said:
Obama released 10 years. Romney is obviously hiding something that he doesn't want the American people to see.
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I think that the fact that he made his money from investments indicates that he may have paid nothing on income. There is nothing wrong with that. It is how our system works but the problem is a majority of the people would be pretty upset about that.
 
disneydude said:
Obama released 10 years. Romney is obviously hiding something that he doesn't want the American people to see.
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I think that the fact that he made his money from investments indicates that he may have paid nothing on income. There is nothing wrong with that. It is how our system works but the problem is a majority of the people would be pretty upset about that.
 
Betcha if he had a "D" behind his name, this thread wouldn't exist.
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1060809646 said:
Like his transcripts?
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That is a false comparison and totally irrelevant because Obama isn't campaigning on a policy that would effect anyone's college grades. However, Romney is campaigning on lowering taxes that would directly lower his own taxes to almost nothing and would raise taxes on the poor. That is why the American people have a right to know what he has paid in taxes if he intends to make tax policy.
 
Moot said:
That is a false comparison and totally irrelevant because Obama isn't campaigning on a policy that would effect anyone's college grades. However, Romney is campaigning on lowering taxes that would directly lower his own taxes to almost nothing and would raise taxes on the poor. That is why the American people have a right to know what he has paid in taxes if he intends to make tax policy.
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that was really good! Much better than my previous responses.
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1060809646 said:
Like his transcripts?
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While I think both are irrelevant, Obama's transcripts and Romney's tax returns, you do have to admit that Romney's tax returns are slightly more relevant. After all Obama's transcripts are decades old, they don't reflect the same man that Obama is now, like everyone else is grown and changed as time as moved on. Romney's tax returns are however more recent. Personally I don't care that he pays less as a percentage of income in taxes than I do, that's what he's legally required to pay and just like him I only pay what have to pay and nothing more, but obviously many other people don't feel the same way and it would make an excellent talking point for Dems to go on about how much less he pays.

Then we'll get back into that old argument of what number is more important, what he pays in total dollars or what he pays as a percentage of his income. No one has a moral opinion on that question, and people's answers will be entirely based on their politics which means it'll be a worthless debate with no real answer, because the only answers are opinions. Thankfully we've avoided that so far.
 
Romney refused to show his tax returns when he ran for Governor of Massachusetts and insisted that everyone should take his word for it that he'd paid his taxes. But it was only discovered after he was elected that he wasn't even a resident of Massachusetts nor had he paid any of the state's taxes. Now he's pulling the same stunt and if elected are we then to find out that he's claimed residency in the Caymen Islands?
 
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Moot said:
That is a false comparison and totally irrelevant because Obama isn't campaigning on a policy that would effect anyone's college grades. However, Romney is campaigning on lowering taxes that would directly lower his own taxes to almost nothing and would raise taxes on the poor. That is why the American people have a right to know what he has paid in taxes if he intends to make tax policy.
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So you think as POTUS Romney would lower taxes so he would have to pay next to nothing in taxes?

And lowering taxes would Raise taxes on the poor.

So that's why people deserve to know what he paid in taxes? :lamo

Your response belongs in the conspiracy theory thread.
 
disneydude said:
Romney is obviously hiding something that he doesn't want the American people to see.
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disneydude said:
Obviously. Romney knows that releasing his tax records will sink his campaign. The American people cannot trust this guy.
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If Romney releases the records, I will be pissed. We've got a full-blown birther spin-off in the making. If he does reveal, he should bust out the 'long form' after the CTers get into full-swing, perhaps just before the election.
 
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disneydude said:
Mitt Romney needs to come clean with the American people if he wants to lead this country. We don't choose the most important leader in the world on your "word" Mr. Romney.
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Would you rather re-elect the Big 0 on his promise that unemployment will never go above 8%?
 
TheLastIndependent said:
I wouldn't doubt that Mitt paid more than 13% on his income. Yet I have 2 questions, Why is that less than the tax rate of the middle class and how much of your income did you pay that on?
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In Federal Tax, that's about the amount that i ended up paying if we're using gross as the base to calculate the percent.

I have considerably less income and considerably fewer accountants and lawyers than Mitt.
 
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