Somewhere in our recent past, I was arguing with Jason330 over the importance of whether or not Mitt Romney should turn in his missing tax forms. I realize the Libertarian portion of me was very strong that day, and there are areas of a private person running for public office, that have no need to be discussed.
I felt at that time we knew how Romney made his money and that to carry it any further was a dead horse. So what if he didn’t pay taxes, which was probably what he was hiding.
I have changed my mind. I changed because over time, that question of what is on those 10 years of tax returns, is entirely what will determine which way this nation goes if he is made president.
If there is nothing there, then yes I’ll be disappointed, but it will not be he equivalent of electing NERO as our chief executive.. But, …. and it is a big but….. if he moved his money offshore, if he paid no taxes at all, if he misrepresented something he has already said, then electing such a person into the chief office of the land, will have grave import upon our future…
It raises serious questions. How can you Mitt… if you put all your money off shore, be able with a straight face to encourage others to put their money into America? How, … if you paid no taxes at all for ten years, can you ask those making less than you, to pay more for their medical, to pay more for their energy, to pay more for their schooling, to pay more for their pensions, to pay more to their banks, to pay more for their food, to pay more for their mortgages, to pay more, yes, in taxes? When you used every trick in the book to minimize your sacrifice, and because of that, you must now ask every man, woman and child not to live the dream you had, in fact,… to give up on that dream entirely?
This is the equivalence of NERO running the nation. It wasn’t necessarily that he was incompetent, it was that he had no legitimacy to be running Rome, and therefore, went crazy in the process.
Therefore if Romney doesn’t release all his tax returns, he has no moral authority to become our chief executive. Secondly, if he does release them and they do show a callous regard for the paying of taxes, and the use of offshore havens to shield income from the United States of America, he can have no moral authority as commander in chief to ask us all….. to sacrifice a little more….
He has no credibility. . . in doing so.
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August 5, 2012 at 1:22 pm
anonymous
Has corporate ‘person’ Willard preferred not to invest in America and it’s workers, choosing instead to maximize his investments overseas? This from a republican who, on a daily basis says,
“Americans need jobs.”
There’s talk of investments in Bermuda and Swiss Bank accounts, Bain profits, foreign tax havens, foreign drug companies, shipping jobs overseas, etc which begs the question,
“What is Willard lying about now?”
For Pete’s sake, Willard, you’re running for President of the United States,
“Show the American people your tax returns.”
Upon discovery of Bain profits, it was announced, Willard,
“retired from Bain retroactively,”
Democrats need to pass a Presidential Income Tax Disclosure Law, effective retroactively.
August 5, 2012 at 5:37 pm
anonymous
Oh, Mr. Big Stuff,
Will you please tell the American people who you really are?
No. Because then, he’s never going to get your votes.
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2012/01/23/2007-video-mitt-romneys-hypocrisy-on-iran-investments-we-cant-have-ethical-standards-that-are-a-punch-line-for-jay-leno/
One can say,
Rmoney needs to tell the truth
about how he (and other multi milllionaires, billionaires) make and hold onto all that money.
Or , Rmoney needs to tell the truth about the costs to mankind,
because petroleum and petrochemical industries ignore the costs of climate change ‘denial.’
Or, Rmoney needs to admit, “corporations are {not} people.”
Don’t expect that Rmoney will tell the American people, who he really is.
Rmoney became the republican candidate because
he’s willing to maximize corporate financial gains,
not matter how he has to ‘contradict’ himself and
no matter what the consequences are to the American people.
What Americans are hearing from Rmoney, are the ‘lies’ powerful corporations want told.
Rmoney is showing his millionaire, billionaire CPAC contributors, he will withhold, misrepresent and contradict any position, in order to bring corporate control into the White House.
In fact, Willard Rmoney has stated, (and this may be his only core truth,)
“Under the Romney Administration the US will have an ‘Official Policy of Denial.’
Definition of Denial: 1. A refusal to comply with or satisfy a request.
2. A refusal to grant the truth of a statement or allegation;
A contradiction.
Rmoney’s ‘Policy of Denial’ is a policy polluting corporations will love – no need for industrial regulations.
However, Rmoney’s isn’t telling the voters that industrial de regulation means the costs will be paid by the poor, middle, upper middle classes. Take climate change for example. It’s already killing people, melting polar ice, acidifying the oceans, drying and burning forests, destroying homes, destroying crops, rising food prices, causing melting permafrost to release methane gas into the atmosphere, etc. Yet Rmoney’s spokeswoman said, “Romney does NOT think greenhouse gases are pollutants within the meaning of the Clean Air Act, and he does NOT believe that the EPA should be regulating them.” Therefore, the polluting industries will profit; as the public suffers the losses.
Seems ‘denial’ has gone from fossil fuel ‘skeptics’ to a promised “Official Policy of Denial,” by a Presidential hopeful.
When Rmoney said, corporations are ‘people,’ they are the ‘people’ he aims to serve and protect.
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/12399218-the-hidden-dangers-of-the-2012-republican-party-and-citizens-united?clear_cache=true
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/28/1113838/-Romney-s-Iranian-Oil-Investments-Loom-During-Visit-To-Israel