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Originally posted by travisirius
reply to post by Wrabbit2000
I heard something funny last night about Romney stating he doesn't have to produce his birth certificate because everyone knows where he was born!
No one wants to see your birth certificate, Mitt, unless it's stapled to your TAX RETURNS!!!!!
Originally posted by takaris7
reply to post by IsThisThingBugged
Why do you think half of americans pay no tax? Half of americans don't work or own a house? Over half of americans let the Government borrow their money at least ... at least 260 or more of my pay check bi-weekly goes to taxes. Do you work? Then you pay some form of tax.
Are you talking about tax refunds?
Originally posted by nightstalker78
Originally posted by IsThisThingBugged
reply to post by MystikMushroom
This tax return stuff really pisses me off. Romney made $20,000,000. And paid 14% or so tax. That's over $2,500,000 in taxes. Half of Americans pay ZERO in taxes but get to use the same roads, same schools, etc.
When everybody pays their share then let's condemn the rich. Otherwise it's just nonsense.
Thanks for saying what I was thinking !! Though I wouldn't say HALF of all Americans don't pay taxes. Legal,working ADULT Americans do pay taxes. Hell,even teenagers who work pay taxes.Other then that point I 100 % agree with you. Too many people here are quick to condemn the rich.Since when is anyone elses tax return YOUR business,ATS? Politician or not...you have no right to view anyones return. I'm willing to be most of you wouldn't make yours public now would you. No? Yeah I didn't think so.
Originally posted by Eurisko2012
No one is worse than Obama.
Originally posted by IsThisThingBugged
reply to post by MystikMushroom
This tax return stuff really pisses me off. Romney made $20,000,000. And paid 14% or so tax. That's over $2,500,000 in taxes. Half of Americans pay ZERO in taxes but get to use the same roads, same schools, etc.
When everybody pays their share then let's condemn the rich. Otherwise it's just nonsense.
Originally posted by fnpmitchreturns
Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
I find it odd that the general accepted number is 2 for the years before election, They then show every return while in office. Obama released everything he had for the decade, and good for him. Releasing at the stage he did, he was unique as I can find. Clinton released a bunch, but much of his releasing didn't come until around 1996 and the re-election according to records.
Leaving that entirely aside for a moment though....This is the 3rd time I have heard Anonymous claim to have done this. Of course, Anonymous is everyone and no one. So this could be a world class hacker or a 13yr old wanna be on Mommy and Daddy's computer. The downsides of Anonymous.
Either way though, if they or ANYONE gets access sufficient to get Romney's tax returns and ONLY gets Romney's tax return...I'll call them the worst kind of political hack and troll I've ever heard of. Ever. Bar none.
To waste a once in a lifetime (They'd NEVER allow it a second time) shot at the gold that IRS records would represent on a political stunt would be totally unforgivable. The Cables Scandal would pale next to someone, some day, getting a true dump of IRS records.
That wouldn't be a leak.......Noah built himself a little boat the last time something flowed with that much importance.
I think one point is that when the government gave amnesty a few years back for people who had hide money abroad paid a special rate to re-patriot their untaxed hidden money... I Romney hide taxable income overseas (a felony) and they paid a special tax using a particular IRS form ... we should know if he lied about his taxes and then was given amnesty to bring his money home....
Originally posted by IsThisThingBugged
reply to post by MystikMushroom
This tax return stuff really pisses me off. Romney made $20,000,000. And paid 14% or so tax. That's over $2,500,000 in taxes. Half of Americans pay ZERO in taxes but get to use the same roads, same schools, etc.
When everybody pays their share then let's condemn the rich. Otherwise it's just nonsense.
The CBO released data in 2009 (I haven't seen anything newer) that shows, considering all Federal taxes, the following effective tax rates (the percent of income paid in taxes):
The lowest 20% of income earners pay 4.3%.
The next 20% pay 10.1%.
The middle 20% pay 14.2% of their income in Federal taxes.
The next 20% pay17.5%
And the 20% with the highest income pay 25.8% of their income in taxes.
Originally posted by IsThisThingBugged
reply to post by MystikMushroom
This tax return stuff really pisses me off. Romney made $20,000,000. And paid 14% or so tax. That's over $2,500,000 in taxes. Half of Americans pay ZERO in taxes but get to use the same roads, same schools, etc.
When everybody pays their share then let's condemn the rich. Otherwise it's just nonsense.