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[h=1]Mitt Romney's mysterious tax returns[/h]
Interesting read.
One notion I agree with, "the 1 percent have not shown themselves to be patriots." Hiding money overseas is not patriotic. We come down on people for not buying American; what about not investing American? The 1 percent have formed a tiny de facto nation within our nation. Tiny buy powerful. They have a separate set of tax laws the 99% don't have access to, and they spend/invest gobs of money overseas. Lastly, they mean to buy our next election... if we don't stop them.
The pillaging of this nation by investment bankers and their ilk is a national disgrace. The failure of the government to prosecute a large percentage of the offenders is distressing. Even worse is the notion that the tax laws are written in such a way that they allow people like Mitt Romney to pay less in taxes than someone earning $52,000 somewhere in the depths of Mega-Corp Inc.
Romney is part of the 1 percent, and the 1 percent have not shown themselves to be patriots. Subprime mortgages ate this nation alive just a few years ago, and subprimes were just a game played by bankers. We have not recovered from the damage they did.
They wiggled and weaseled and lied their way into immense profits. Enough of their stories have become public that we have some sense of how they went about it - and no confidence at all that they're not going to keep doing it for as long as they can.
How much was Romney a part of that? What was he doing with his money during the previous decade? In a blind trust, he says, but there may be a question about how blind it was. In any event, isn't that a fair question, given how much malfeasance we know existed and still exists? It's certainly suggestive of something.
Interesting read.
One notion I agree with, "the 1 percent have not shown themselves to be patriots." Hiding money overseas is not patriotic. We come down on people for not buying American; what about not investing American? The 1 percent have formed a tiny de facto nation within our nation. Tiny buy powerful. They have a separate set of tax laws the 99% don't have access to, and they spend/invest gobs of money overseas. Lastly, they mean to buy our next election... if we don't stop them.