Quit Picking On Romney

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POLL: O 46% R 46%

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll - Rasmussen Reports™
 

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MITT ROMNEY SILVER FOOT IN MOUTH DISEASE

He learned his lesson to not say anything, but you could tell Mr. Mathews was dying to tell us he had a tingle up BOTH his legs! :)

He deffered (carried forward) 1.7 mill of charity (church) cash to next year so he wouldn't go below 13%

I do not consider donating to a church as charity to anyone except the donater.

And of course donating to a charity is not the same as paying the equivalent tax if you had earned it through employment.

And lest we forget, the more one donates to Salt Lake, the higher one moves up the chain.



According to a summary of their 2011 return released by the Romney campaign, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in federal income taxes last year on $13,696,951 in income, almost all of it from his investments. That comes out to a 14.1% tax rate, far below the top rate of 35% for earned income. But here's the thing: Had Romney taken full advantage of all the deductions available to him, the rate would have been much lower, perhaps as low as 9%. He donated $4,020,772 to charity (good for him!), but only claimed a deduction on $2.25 million of that.

Why? His campaign told BuzzFeed:


Mitt Romney Releases Basically Made-Up 2011 Tax Returns

http://www.radioiowa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/AnnRomneyInterview.mp3

There were those who said Romney should never release his tax returns, just for this reason (poring over his return to find things to demonize him for). It was lose lose for him. Where are the demands for an apology from Reid? (the guy who accused him of not paying taxes?) No. Apologies for accusing him of being a felon? No. Apologies for accusing him of hiding money in foreign tax havens? No. Let's focus on his tax planning, let's question his accountants' overall tax strategy lol. Sheesh, I'm just a poor working schmuck and even I've deferred deductions to future years....in anticipation of having a higher income or fewer deductions available to draw from! Hello!! lol
 

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About Those Polls

Republican pollster John McLaughlin:
“The Democrats want to convince [these anti-Obama voters] falsely that Romney will lose to discourage them from voting. So they lobby the pollsters to weight their surveys to emulate the 2008 Democrat-heavy models. They are lobbying them now to affect early voting. IVR [Interactive Voice Response] polls are heavily weighted. You can weight to whatever result you want. Some polls have included sizable segments of voters who say they are ‘not enthusiastic’ to vote or non-voters to dilute Republicans. Major pollsters have samples with Republican affiliation in the 20 to 30 percent range, at such low levels not seen since the 1960s in states like Virginia, Florida, North Carolina and which then place Obama ahead. The intended effect is to suppress Republican turnout through media polling bias. We’ll see a lot more of this.



small dead animals: About Those Polls





What John McLaughlin Sees in the Polls Right Now
 

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^ LOL! For all his shortcomings (and there are a few) Obama is far better than Romney. How the latter runs his idiotic campaign should give you a hint as to his incompetence.
 

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Since when are social security and medicare and even unemployment " entitlements " ? ? ? We've been paying - as well as our employers - into these programs all of our working lives . So they are not entitlements but are something that is OWED to us - - - something that these theiving cock-suckers weren't supposed to touch for ANY purpose . The theives that transferred that money into the general fund should be hung by their balls. We can start with Lyndon Johnson - - - he signed the executive order to get access to OUR money

 

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Mitt Romney doesn't understand why windows in aircraft can't be opened.
Mitt Romney Wants to Know Why Airplane Windows Don’t Roll Down | TheBlaze.com
When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no — and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem. So it’s very dangerous. And she was choking and rubbing her eyes. Fortunately, there was enough oxygen for the pilot and copilot to make a safe landing in Denver. But she’s safe and sound.
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According to that article, Joe Biden made less money in 10 years than Romney gave away last year. It would be impossible for Biden to have given away more or as much money in 10 years as Romney did in one year. And keep in mind, even if Biden did make as much money as Romney gave away, to match him he would be giving away 100% of his income for 10 years.

So in other words, the premise of the article is retarded. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a sociological experiment to see just how gullible party hacks are. Let's see, combine anti-Democrat bias with statistics that don't jive and see who believes they do. If you believe the facts say something about Biden that they obviously don't, merely because you don't like Democrats, you've got a critical thinking problem.

To be sure, Biden could have given more money of his income to charity. It says Romney gave 30% while Biden gave 0.2%. A few thousand dollars in 10 years for someone making about $300K a year isn't much. I gave more money to charity in that time and I make far less.
 

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So in other words, the premise of the article is retarded.

Pretty much everything written about Romney's taxes, Obama's birth certificate, anything about Sarah Palin, and anything written in the last 4 years about Bill Clinton falls into the 'retarded' category.

It's entertainment for people too stupid to think, just like news television.
 

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To be sure, Biden could have given more money of his income to charity. It says Romney gave 30% while Biden gave 0.2%. A few thousand dollars in 10 years for someone making about $300K a year isn't much. I gave more money to charity in that time and I make far less.
Which proves Biden is an asshole.
 

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According to that article, Joe Biden made less money in 10 years than Romney gave away last year. It would be impossible for Biden to have given away more or as much money in 10 years as Romney did in one year. And keep in mind, even if Biden did make as much money as Romney gave away, to match him he would be giving away 100% of his income for 10 years.

So in other words, the premise of the article is retarded. I wouldn't be surprised if it was a sociological experiment to see just how gullible party hacks are. Let's see, combine anti-Democrat bias with statistics that don't jive and see who believes they do. If you believe the facts say something about Biden that they obviously don't, merely because you don't like Democrats, you've got a critical thinking problem.

To be sure, Biden could have given more money of his income to charity. It says Romney gave 30% while Biden gave 0.2%. A few thousand dollars in 10 years for someone making about $300K a year isn't much. I gave more money to charity in that time and I make far less.




Romney = corporate welfare recipient:

How Uncle Sam Helped Mitt Romney Build His Fortune | Crooks and Liars

And this doesn't even include the amount of monies sheltered overseas in tax free accounts.