Eh, those already exist, if people bothered to look
Jragghen Send a noteboard - 19/09/2012 08:08:35 AM
... I'm kind of curious why he hasn't just released everything. Not doing so suggests that there's something in there that his campaign feels would be more damaging than the unproven perception that he's hiding something. I mean, I dunno, but after all the fuss, why wouldn't he just release them? It's strange enough to make me mildly curious, anyway.
An example of something totally legal and ethical that could get someone into trouble politically would be Obama investing in a Coal Mine or Romney in a Solar Start Up. The left is just fishing, there's always a chance in someone with as much investment as Romney has of some tax error but more there's a chance of a legal action that might be turned into a political issue.
For example, we already have multiple signatures of his on documents where Bain purchased and ran a company which disposed of abortion remains, but that's neither here nor there.
Personal guess is that he's one of the many super-rich who ended up getting amnesty in....'09, I think it was, for disclosing an illegal offshore account. I do think it's kinda sad that the sanitized to look good year only had an effective tax of 13%, but that's just me, I suppose.
This message last edited by Jragghen on 19/09/2012 at 08:32:07 AM
what does it mean to "pay no federal income tax"?
- 18/09/2012 06:30:28 PM
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Wrong
- 18/09/2012 06:37:07 PM
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- 18/09/2012 06:51:46 PM
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SS income is very much taxed, my friend
- 18/09/2012 06:59:28 PM
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Is that true?
- 18/09/2012 06:54:33 PM
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No, it's not. See my post (you should really have read it first 
) *NM*
- 18/09/2012 07:00:07 PM
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) *NM*
- 18/09/2012 07:00:07 PM
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Looking at that chart you linked, I have some questions.
- 18/09/2012 07:05:24 PM
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I think the reasoning is that since they go to entitlement programs, it's not entirely a tax.
- 18/09/2012 10:55:12 PM
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Does that mean the correct number is that 27.6%?
- 18/09/2012 07:17:46 PM
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That is correct - some folks have such negative income taxes, it offsets payroll as well.
- 19/09/2012 05:28:07 AM
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If it helps, here's a graph of effective federal tax rate by quintile, all taxes (data from 2007)
- 19/09/2012 08:30:37 AM
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While we're talking about taxes, am I the only one who doesn't give a rat's ass about Romney's?
- 18/09/2012 10:37:12 PM
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That sort of thing does matter to me
- 18/09/2012 10:48:30 PM
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Ah, yeah, not so much for me.
- 18/09/2012 11:16:56 PM
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I am a BIT curious whether he took the IRS amnesty for tax dodging in 2009.
- 18/09/2012 11:32:31 PM
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As an outside observer ...
- 19/09/2012 01:28:13 AM
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Re: As an outside observer ...
- 19/09/2012 04:45:11 AM
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the question of legality has already been covered by the offshore accounts though....
- 19/09/2012 05:44:28 AM
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Eh, those already exist, if people bothered to look
- 19/09/2012 08:08:35 AM
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Those are toothless examples, no bite to them and old news so no shock value aspect
- 19/09/2012 08:44:01 AM
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The stat is valid, because of tax credits the GOP created/expanded for the overtaxed middle class.
- 18/09/2012 11:22:13 PM
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I think you got it wrong:
- 19/09/2012 01:52:30 AM
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+1 - you are correct, moondog screwed the pooch with this post. *NM*
- 19/09/2012 05:18:19 AM
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Washington Post similar to Anonymous', but shows how many people get each credit.
- 19/09/2012 06:45:08 PM
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