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If Romney DIDNT pay his taxes, is it too late 4 the Republican Party 2 nominate Paul?

Re: If Romney DIDNT pay his taxes, is it too late 4 the Republican Party 2 nominate P

UtahBill said:
the IRA wasn't around every year of his adult life....
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I stand corrected. That just makes his ability to turn a $5,000 maximum annual contribution into a minimum of $21 million all the more impressive/suspicious.

how do we know he HAS an IRA?
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From his financial disclosure forms.
 
Re: If Romney DIDNT pay his taxes, is it too late 4 the Republican Party 2 nominate P

Kandahar said:
I stand corrected. That just makes his ability to turn a $5,000 maximum annual contribution into a minimum of $21 million all the more impressive/suspicious.



From his financial disclosure forms.
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I have a self directed IRA in Etrade, managed to turn $60K into $40K.....but I got bit by investing in 2 of the major communications companies whose CEO's went to jail, and then again by the dot.com bubble. Most of my investments were in my employers 401K plan which did much better. That money was withdrawn and used to pay for our retirement house, paid a lot of taxes but at least I got it out before the market tumbled again when the housing bubble burst....wife transferred hers to fixed income just before the housing bubble burst....the major screwup, tho, was not selling our AZ house when the bubble was still inflating. It was supposedly worth $340K one year, and $150K the next year....

I'm guessing that Romney had more knowledge of the market than I did...
 
Re: If Romney DIDNT pay his taxes, is it too late 4 the Republican Party 2 nominate P

UtahBill said:
I have a self directed IRA in Etrade, managed to turn $60K into $40K.....but I got bit by investing in 2 of the major communications companies whose CEO's went to jail, and then again by the dot.com bubble. Most of my investments were in my employers 401K plan which did much better. That money was withdrawn and used to pay for our retirement house, paid a lot of taxes but at least I got it out before the market tumbled again when the housing bubble burst....wife transferred hers to fixed income just before the housing bubble burst....the major screwup, tho, was not selling our AZ house when the bubble was still inflating. It was supposedly worth $340K one year, and $150K the next year....

I'm guessing that Romney had more knowledge of the market than I did...
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Almost no investor can consistently beat the market regardless of how much knowledge they have. Warren Buffett is considered the best of the best and his average annual return is approximately 19%. Romney's would be several orders of magnitude higher than that. As far as I can tell, the only plausible explanation is he found a (probably legal) way to exceed his annual maximum contribution.
 
99percenter said:
You aren't a libertarian. You are a neoconservative. If you were you wouldn't support politicians like bush and romney. Damn necons posing as libertarians.
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He'd make a bad neoconservative. Trust me.
 
Re: If Romney DIDNT pay his taxes, is it too late 4 the Republican Party 2 nominate P

Fiddytree said:
He'd make a bad neoconservative. Trust me.
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Nah. He'd make a good one. He supports the neoconservative agenda.
 
Re: If Romney DIDNT pay his taxes, is it too late 4 the Republican Party 2 nominate P

Of course he did not pay taxes.

He does NOT OWE any taxes in a ZERO tax country like Caymans or Isle of man etc.
 
Re: If Romney DIDNT pay his taxes, is it too late 4 the Republican Party 2 nominate P

99percenter said:
Nah. He'd make a good one. He supports the neoconservative agenda.
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He's a libertarian. He supports some of the free market beliefs, is not very well supportive of various neoconservative cultural inclinations, and has iffy foreign policy inclinations with regard to the Neo-Reaganites.

Trust me. I've spent the past 10 years researching the movement. Turtle is not a good representative of neoconservatism in many of its numerous forms over the past 40-50 years. I've had many conversations with him. He's not a good candidate for one of my guys.
 
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Re: If Romney DIDNT pay his taxes, is it too late 4 the Republican Party 2 nominate P

If Romney takes up Obama's offer and releases just the last 5 YEARS of his tax returns, then the crap will hit the fan or Romney and the possibility of Ron Paul wininng the Repub nomination increases greatly!
So I have to applaud the Obama team for making this offer. It is a win-win for them...and a lose-lose for Romney. Which is a WIN for the US people and honest Coservatives with integrity everywhere!
 
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