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Is this what Romney is hiding in his Taxes???

CONSagainROMNEY

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Romney Persona Non Grata in Italy for Bain

"Bain funneled profits through subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a common corporate strategy for avoiding income taxes in other European countries..."

"In Italy, the deals have spurred at least three books, separate legal and regulatory probes and newspaper columns alleging investors made a fortune at the expense of Italian taxpayers."

Looks like Bain screwed over Italy big time. I think Romney just lost the Italian-American vote...
 
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Looks like Telecom Italia played dirty. Is this supposed to be a hit piece, because it's kind of weak.

Seat’s stock price had almost tripled in the three months leading up to Telecom Italia’s offer in February 2000. The technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index (CCMP) increased 160 percent in the two years leading up to the deal.
“It was sold at the peak of the Internet bubble” recalled Pellicioli, Seat’s then-CEO. “It was not pure smoke, there was a lot of real meat, but the multiple within the Internet bubble and the timing helped.”
Italian regulators raised concerns that the price was manipulated and investors traded on inside information and probed alleged conflicts of interest. Two top Telecom Italia officials also owned shares in Seat indirectly.
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Actually the most reasonable explanation for Romney's offshore accounts seems to be that he was helping foreign corporations screw the U.S. by funneling their U.S. investments through offshore accounts and thus avoiding U.S. taxes. Apparently this is not illegal....
 
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AdamT said:
Actually the most reasonable explanation for Romney's offshore accounts seems to be that he was helping foreign corporations screw the U.S. by funneling their U.S. investments through offshore accounts and thus avoiding U.S. taxes. Apparently this is not illegal....
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So as a smart businessman, he took legal means to maximize the earnings of his shareholders and employees, damn! thats just terrible.:lamo
 
Bobcat said:
So as a smart businessman, he took legal means to maximize the earnings of his shareholders and employees, damn! thats just terrible.:lamo
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Right, by helping foreign corporations avoid paying U.S. taxes. USA USA
 
AdamT said:
Right, by helping foreign corporations avoid paying U.S. taxes. USA USA
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You said it was legal. I am sure Barry's buddy immelt of GE does it bigtime. Are these things "unethical" only when done by republicans?

I know you liberals think that everything is ok, because the end justifies the means, but your hypocrisy on this one is as obvious as the botox on pelosi's face.
 
Bobcat said:
So as a smart businessman, he took legal means to maximize the earnings of his shareholders and employees, damn! thats just terrible.:lamo
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Legal does not equal "the right thing to do" by default. It's legal to watch porn and rub green jello all over your body because your hot, but I'm sure there are some conservatives that don't believe that is the "right thing to do". Sorry I didn't mean to discuss Rush Limbauh's Saturday nights :lamo
 
TheNextEra said:
Legal does not equal "the right thing to do" by default. It's legal to watch porn and rub green jello all over your body because your hot, but I'm sure there are some conservatives that don't believe that is the "right thing to do". Sorry I didn't mean to discuss Rush Limbauh's Saturday nights :lamo
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thats funny :lamo
 
TheNextEra said:
Legal does not equal "the right thing to do" by default. It's legal to watch porn and rub green jello all over your body because your hot, but I'm sure there are some conservatives that don't believe that is the "right thing to do". Sorry I didn't mean to discuss Rush Limbauh's Saturday nights :lamo
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Do you agree that GE does things that are "not the right thing to do"? You do know that the CEO of GE is head of obama's job council? you know, the council that never meets.
 
Bobcat said:
Do you agree that GE does things that are "not the right thing to do"?
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Absolutely. However, just like in Romney's case of tax shelters (I guess that's what they are calling them now), it's legal. I just don't think it's the right thing to do.
 
Bobcat said:
Do you agree that GE does things that are "not the right thing to do"? You do know that the CEO of GE is head of obama's job council? you know, the council that never meets.
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You know that Immelt isn't running for president, right?
 
AdamT said:
You know that Immelt isn't running for president, right?
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No, but Obama is and his actions regarding GE are not the best IMO in the "right thing to do" department.
 
TheNextEra said:
No, but Obama is and his actions regarding GE are not the best IMO in the "right thing to do" department.
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What are his actions regarding GE?
 
TheNextEra said:
No, but Obama is and his actions regarding GE are not the best IMO in the "right thing to do" department.
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You have to understand. Obama is not responsible for his known associations (i.e. Rev. Wright, Ayers, etc) but Mitt Romney's dad was in the same state with Al Capone so Mitt Romney is clearly for organized crime.
 
Why is what Romney does with his money supposed to be more important than what Obama does with mine (and yours)?
 
AdamT said:
What are his actions regarding GE?
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Taking advisment from someone who basically sent his company overseas and a corporation that paid no taxes in 2010.
 
TheNextEra said:
Absolutely. However, just like in Romney's case of tax shelters (I guess that's what they are calling them now), it's legal. I just don't think it's the right thing to do.
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If it is legal, why doesn't he release his tax returns?
 
He is hiding that he is actually paying for Obama's legal fees for hiding his real birth certificate and college records. I say that because Romney's tax returns are about on part with Obama's college records.
 
Darrell said:
If it is legal, why doesn't he release his tax returns?
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Probably the same reason Obama doesn't release his transcripts, because it's not required.
 
CONSagainROMNEY said:
Romney Persona Non Grata in Italy for Bain

"Bain funneled profits through subsidiaries in Luxembourg, a common corporate strategy for avoiding income taxes in other European countries..."

"In Italy, the deals have spurred at least three books, separate legal and regulatory probes and newspaper columns alleging investors made a fortune at the expense of Italian taxpayers."

Looks like Bain screwed over Italy big time. I think Romney just lost the Italian-American vote...
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No, none of that would be on his personal tax returns. He's not being asked to release Bain's returns, but his own.
 
soccerboy22 said:
He is hiding that he is actually paying for Obama's legal fees for hiding his real birth certificate and college records. I say that because Romney's tax returns are about on part with Obama's college records.
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May you rephrase your statement, it didn't make any sense. Obama, went to college, do you think if he didn't go to Harvard, somebody from Harvard would have came out and said, he didn't? Why should he release his academic records, just so conservatives can say it's fake. O, he did release his birth certificate, when eveybody was screaming, he was from Kenya, but it was obviously a fake, because a sheriff in Arizonia says, "it's fake." Taxes and academic records, which one is more important. Get a better argument next time.
 
TheNextEra said:
Probably the same reason Obama doesn't release his transcripts, because it's not required.
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If he releases his transcripts, all the conservatives would say, "it's fake." What's the point?
 
Darrell said:
May you rephrase your statement, it didn't make any sense. Obama, went to college, do you think if he didn't go to Harvard, somebody from Harvard would have came out and said, he didn't? Why should he release his academic records, just so conservatives can say it's fake. O, he did release his birth certificate, when eveybody was screaming, he was from Kenya, but it was obviously a fake, because a sheriff in Arizonia says, "it's fake." Taxes and academic records, which one is more important. Get a better argument next time.
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Unless either one of them broke the law, neither of them matter more than crap in a pig pen.
 
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