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Did Mitt Romney go a full 10 years without paying taxes?

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If the IRS/federal government says they are legally fine with whatever Romney did with his money - wherever it is - then I am fine with it. And unless he did something illegal with it, then it is NONE of your/my business where it is.


If he placed (legally) a TON of his money off shore for tax purposes - good for him.

Only a moron would pay more taxes then he/she legally has to.

And I don't want a moron in the WH.

No, but clearly you don't mind a tax dodger. :lamo
 
yeah, and if that means sticking it in the cayman Islands where he pays nothing and leaves it to the rest of us to pick up his share of the tab, more power to him, right? You guys continue to impress.

Taxes are paid when the money is made. Why does it matter where he put it after that?
 
No, but clearly you don't mind a tax dodger. :lamo

you appear to be confused on the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion.

for example, when you claim your mortgage interest as a deduction? that's tax avoidance. under-reporting your income? that's tax evasion.
 
No, but clearly you don't mind a tax dodger. :lamo
If it's legal, not only do I not mind it...I STRONGLY encourage everyone to legally do everything they can to avoid paying taxes.

Like I typed, only an economic moron pays more taxes then he/she has to. If you're dying to give your money away, give it to a worthy charity...not the government.
 
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If it's legal, not only do I not mind it...I STRONGLY encourage everyone to legally do everything they can to avoid paying taxes.

Like I typed, only an economic moron pays more taxes then he/she has to.

It's a bit more than that. There's the part about laundering money so overseas corporations could avoid paying US taxes too. I don't care if it was legal, it shouldn't be. And I don't think a future Presdent should be involved with it either.
 
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you appear to be confused on the difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion.

for example, when you claim your mortgage interest as a deduction? that's tax avoidance. under-reporting your income? that's tax evasion.

You know at this point I don't think it really matters what you call it. Something stinks or those forms would be out there. And that's the falling approval ratings and that's the ballgame.
 
I won't actually vote because I think the answers are crap on there. I think most likely he paid taxes every year, but I also think that some years he paid maybe very close to 0 with tax tricks.

Question: Do you voluntarily pay more taxes than you are required to, by law? Do you expect anyone to pay more than they are legally required to? If so, why?
It seems to me that many people want to point their dirty little fingers at other people, for doing what they are legally entitled to do, which makes absolutely no sense. Nobody wants to pay more than they are required, and if they say they do, I would expect they are liars.
 
You know at this point I don't think it really matters what you call it. Something stinks or those forms would be out there. And that's the falling approval ratings and that's the ballgame.

Innocent until proven guilty.

You are assuming guilt until innocence is proven.

The man is under ZERO obligation to release those documents...ZERO.
 
Question: Do you voluntarily pay more taxes than you are required to, by law? Do you expect anyone to pay more than they are legally required to? If so, why?
It seems to me that many people want to point their dirty little fingers at other people, for doing what they are legally entitled to do, which makes absolutely no sense. Nobody wants to pay more than they are required, and if they say they do, I would expect they are liars.

I suspect you would be right.


Q. What person deliberately pays more taxes then they have to?

A. No one with a properly working brain.


I swear that much of the uproar (that is not just petty partisan politics) is just people who are envious that they are not rich enough to be able to utilize legal off shore loopholes like Romney may have done.
 
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I suspect you would be right.


Q. What person deliberately pays more taxes then they have to?

A. No one with a properly working brain.


I swear that much of the uproar (that is not just petty partisan politics) is just people who are envious that they are not rich enough to be able to utilize legal off shore loopholes like Romney may have done.

I would like to see the tax returns to answer one key question about the man who wants to lead America and its 311 million people: in his own life, does Romney put American first or does he put his own narrow financial interests about those of the nation and its people?

Legality has nothing to do with it.
 
its amusing watching people who most likely suck on the public teat whining that Romney didn't give them even more milk
 
I would like to see the tax returns to answer one key question about the man who wants to lead America and its 311 million people: in his own life, does Romney put American first or does he put his own narrow financial interests about those of the nation and its people?

Legality has nothing to do with it.

I guess those who think the government is entitled to more and more of our mine would think that avoiding taxes legally is contrary to the good of the country

many of us see someone who is too stupid to legally avoid outrageous taxes as being too stupid to be president

I wonder how many people THINK they paid a higher tax rate than Romney? probably people stupid enough to vote for Obama
 
I would like to see the tax returns to answer one key question about the man who wants to lead America and its 311 million people: in his own life, does Romney put American first or does he put his own narrow financial interests about those of the nation and its people?

Legality has nothing to do with it.

No one is obligated to "put America first" when it comes to paying his/her taxes. Taxes are a requirement, once you reach a determined level of financial security, not a moral obligation to the nation.
 
I guess those who think the government is entitled to more and more of our mine would think that avoiding taxes legally is contrary to the good of the country

many of us see someone who is too stupid to legally avoid outrageous taxes as being too stupid to be president

I wonder how many people THINK they paid a higher tax rate than Romney? probably people stupid enough to vote for Obama

You seem to not understand. Mittens wants to be the leader of America. Mittens wants to lead 311 million American people. As such, I want a patriot who both loves the nation and loves its people in that position of power and authority. I want to know that this person places America and its people above all other factors - and that includes their own financial greed be it done legally or otherwise.

I can tell you with 100% certainty and am willing to put up my $10 grand against yours or anyone else that I absolutely without a doubt gave the federal government a higher percentage of my earnings last year than Mittens did.
 
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You know at this point I don't think it really matters what you call it.

Actually it does, because one of those things is criminal.

I realize that there is a certain kind of mindset that wishes to criminalize 32-oz soda's and thinks that failure of equality of result indicates bias within a system, and therefore may have difficulty understanding this, but there is nothing inherently illegal about a tax result that you don't like.
 
You seem to not understand. Mittens wants to be the leader of America. Mittens wants to lead 311 million American people. As such, I want a patriot who both loves the nation and loves its people in that position of power and authority. I want to know that this person places America and its people above all other factors - and that includes their own financial greed be it done legally or otherwise.

I can tell you with 100% certainty and am willing to put up my $10 grand against yours or anyone else that I absolutely without a doubt gave the federal government a higher percentage of my earnings last year than Mittens did.

So that means they are supposed to pay more taxes then they are legally obligated to?

Interesting.
 
No one is obligated to "put America first" when it comes to paying his/her taxes. Taxes are a requirement, once you reach a determined level of financial security, not a moral obligation to the nation.

Yup - you are right about that obligation.

But what does that have to do with the man who wants to lead America and its people showing that they are a patriot who puts the nation first in their own financial and economic decisions?
 
You seem to not understand. Mittens wants to be the leader of America. Mittens wants to lead 311 million American people. As such, I want a patriot who both loves the nation and loves its people in that position of power and authority. I want to know that this person places America and its people above all other factors - and that includes their own financial greed be it done legally or otherwise.

I can tell you with 100% certainty and am willing to put up my $10 grand against yours or anyone else that I absolutely without a doubt gave the federal government a higher percentage of my earnings last year than Mittens did.

:) fantastic. Post your numbers, please, so that we can see A) whether or not you are being truthful about your tax rate and B) whether or not you held yourself to the same standard as Romney, and paid more than you had to.
 
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So that means they are supposed to pay more taxes then they are legally obligated to?

Interesting.

Screw legally. Flush legally. Smash and trash legally.

I want to know if the many who wants to lead American and its 311 million people is a patriot who placed the nation and its people first in his own economic and financial decisions and his tax return will tell me that.
 
Yup - you are right about that obligation.

But what does that have to do with the man who wants to lead America and its people showing that they are a patriot who puts the nation first in their own financial and economic decisions?

So, someone has to pay more taxes then they are legally obligated to to be patriotic in your eyes?
 
Yup - you are right about that obligation.

But what does that have to do with the man who wants to lead America and its people showing that they are a patriot who puts the nation first in their own financial and economic decisions?

There is nothing unpatriotic about paying only what taxes you owe.


I reject that notion - and I call upon all other conservatives to reject - and refuse to call President Obama an unpatriotic man who puts the nation behind his own narrow financial interests, just because he takes advantage of the credits and loopholes in the tax code to reduce his tax bill.
 
Actually it does, because one of those things is criminal.

I realize that there is a certain kind of mindset that wishes to criminalize 32-oz soda's and thinks that failure of equality of result indicates bias within a system, and therefore may have difficulty understanding this, but there is nothing inherently illegal about a tax result that you don't like.

Tax havens are legal by virtue of being tax havens. They are still perceived as culturally and morally subversive.
 
You seem to not understand. Mittens wants to be the leader of America. Mittens wants to lead 311 million American people. As such, I want a patriot who both loves the nation and loves its people in that position of power and authority. I want to know that this person places America and its people above all other factors - and that includes their own financial greed be it done legally or otherwise.

I can tell you with 100% certainty and am willing to put up my $10 grand against yours or anyone else that I absolutely without a doubt gave the federal government a higher percentage of my earnings last year than Mittens did.


you are being dishonest because you are counting FICA

that isn't a progressive tax and it doesn't apply to investment income

I also not Romney paid far more in actual tax dollars to the federal government than you did and he is not living off of the tax dollars of others

so what was society's net take from you vs Romney?

answer-Romney did more for society when it comes to financial contributions than you did (or I did or most of us did)
 
Tax havens are legal by virtue of being tax havens. They are still perceived as culturally and morally subversive.

Morally subversive by who

parasitic politicians

envious losers who are mad that others aren't being taxed even more?
 
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