Re: Repubs: Would you Sign a Pledge NOT to vote for Romney unless he releases his tax
Not really. Obama is not running on the record that he was born in America. But RINO Romney IS running on his record as a businessman. This alone makes his tax returns pertinent because his tax returns will give true indications as to what kind of businessman he was.
The part of me that wants to see mitt ripped to shreds over his use of legal means of ripping people off would love to see his tax returns, but it is irrelevant to whether or not I would vote for him, and i don't think it will change the minds of most people. I am pretty sure romney followed all the laws he needed to, and used every loophole and deduction he could. I also do not really fault him for that as the head of a business who's only purpose was to make money. Bain is not about making things, servicing people, or building our society. It is about building wealth for it's investors and owners. It is perfectly legal to take over companies, load them with debt, and then trash them out for profit. He is not the first, best, or only person to do that. He was probably decent enough at it, and he made himself a lot of money.
This is not a selling point for him as president if you ask me. It is lucrative as a business to run over your workers. We learned through the american industrialization in our entire history that workers are a dime a dozen, and the less they cost the more you make. We established rules to protect the worker because of some extremely horrible conditions created by businesses because there is always a person who needs a job prepared to work if you happen to break a current worker. That is why we have anti-slavery laws, protection for children from companies who want to hire them, worker's rights, minimum wage, equal opportunity laws, and we even had restrictions on corrupt methods of investment and banking that were made to take money from the less advantaged. We have these laws for a reason. That is because capitalist businesses without regulation will take advantage of every thing they can.
Do we really want the people who will sell out everyone for some profit running the country? it seems one of the biggest problems congress, state governments, and even the presidency has is that we have way to many of these raiders looking to make money at the expense of the people in the country. Would i look at mittens to run a cut-throat raiding company in order to make as much profit as i could? yes, he would be up there. Do I want him in charge of the government I live under? hell no. I don't need his tax returns to know how he made his money, or to know that he would take advantage of every weakness in our government to make as much as he can for him and his friends while president. He is running on the reputation of doing exactly that. Since i am not one of the tiny minority of people that are his friends and business associates it means I am one of the cattle he wants to own and sell off. I do not think i will ever be allowed by him to share in his affluence, and i am very sure that he would do everything in his power to destroy any person who tried. That is how you keep on top of a predator environment.
Beyond that though, like I say, it is simply a matter of respecting the American voter and trusting them by providing them with all the pertinent information. If Romney does not trust the us, then why should be trust him. There is a disconnect there that is at the very root of Romney's huge likability deficit - which is the lowest of any Candidate since such numbers have been tracked.
Why should we trust him to begin with? Even without the tax returns he admits exactly how he operates. He changes the laws to benefit him with his money, and then he uses those benefits to make more money while limiting the competition. That is exactly what he did at bain. That is what he claims he will do if we elect him because he is running on that record. It is the one area he has not flip flopped on. Elect him and he will use his experience at Bain to mold america in the image he desires. He used his position at bain to make money at the expense of anyone who stood in his way, so why do people think he is now going to share wealth when he says it is that very behavior that makes him a good president. Look at what he did at Bain. he takes a failing or weak company, gets in charge of it. leverages uit for all it's worth, loads it up with debt, protects his capital, and chops it up and sells it off. America is just a failing business to him. You can hear it every time he speaks. he makes the same promise to his voters he made to the companies looking to bain to save them. It seems that much like many of those weaker or failing companies, many american people believe he will save them. You don't need any tax returns to know this, he openly admits it.
