Mitt Romney, the tax evader
 

So Gawker did something absolutely amazing...

It essentially dumped Mitt Romney's taxes for everyone to see.

Here's what they've found out:

Equity swaps

This is dubious say officials:

In short, Romney made his money on the backs of his employees. It's confirmed that he's a vulture capitalist that changes the definition of income to pay himself ore money while screwing over the nation when he sends his workers to the unemployment line.

He wants to have a government that doesn't work for the people, and give himself a tax cut while pushing this onto the middle class with supply side economics. Supply Side Jesus is proud

I also knew I was voting for not-Romney, but now I'm putting my vote squarely in the pool of the guy with the best chance to beat him. This bastard needs to self-deport out of the country.

Y'know, I played a bit of devil's advocate the other day, trying to defend the idea that Mitt being elected wouldn't be a bad thing.

It was tough.

But ultimately, I came up with several a few points.

He would be under somewhat constant observation from the media, because lord knows they don't have anything better to do.

He would not have the power to make laws, only the ability to execute his newfound authority as president. Even then, he could be countered by either of the other two branches.

In fact, the only thing that would seal our doom would be if a sympathetic Congress was elected/retained as well, because they'd be more likely to pass bills he would sign.



Still not voting for him, though.

I remember seeing one of his campaign ads saying how Obama screwed over medicare.

Now I haven't heard anything specific so kind of assuming but judging by all the talk of tax cuts and emphasis on private sector, isn't Romney planning on slashing medicare himself?

I really dont get these attack ads, stuff he criticizes obama for are things he himself would do to a greater degree. Can someone tell me what I'm missing?

It's cute, you think they would do something like tell the truth.

Adorable.

Romney's plan for Medicare comes from the Paul Ryan budget. They take the $716 billion dollars that is taken away from the healthcare providers and say it's a tax cut in regards to Obama's plan when it's not true.

Of course, what happens is that they just repeat the lie over and over until enough people believe them.

Essentially, Romney's entire platform is based on one lie after another. They took Obama's words of "You didn't build that" which were talking about roads and bridges and based it on small businesses.

Every last ad has someone that built a business based on government loans.

Medicare? Again, Obama takes the money and reinvests it. Romney's budget takes it and gives it to Big Pharma.

The War on Women? All from the religious right. They care more about the zygote than they ever will about the mother. Amazingly, you can read how the Tea Party is involved in this.

I can go on and on... The point here is that Romney and the Republican party is horrible for anything that doesn't serve the rich and corporations.

What's funny about the Paul Ryan social cuts is that the money doesn't appear to be going to be applied directly to the national debt, which is what they bitch about all the time, but instead just be given to rich people. Good job!

though not like Obama's healthcare plan is adequate, but I never expect the US to ever actually implement a national healthcare system.
To be fair from what I saw on wikipedia, Ford did build his company through money he earned through hard work and private investors.

Honestly government business loans aren't all that useful unless you are going for something small scale like opening up a McDonalds. Loans are only really obtainable if you have something with a high rate of success like a franchise or a business with high liquidity like a car dealership. Now-a-days even thats rarely enough. You'd have better luck with a kickstarter

[edit] I'm saying he is right in that these things dont work but wrong as to why. They dont work because the government isn't pumping enough into them, not because they are wasted programs

The best chance was the Progressive Deal that Harry Truman had after Roosevelt died. The second best chance was Jimmy Carter. With Reagan as a Libertarian president, he hated the idea of government in our healthcare and making it a good single payer plan. Hence his notion of "starving the beast". We had a good chance with Obama but Rahm Emanuel is tied to the banks and the health industry so they both nixed the public option.


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No, the problem comes in the government not investing enough in infrastructure. Roads, bridges, etc need to be invested in. People need investment. What Mitt Romney wants to do is invest in the people that don't need it. The incredibly rich such as himself to give himself a tax cut. He hasn't paid ten years. This comes from the massive tax loopholes in our law. Those loopholes came into being by bribing our politicians far more than during the Watergate Scandal.

[edit] I'm saying he is right in that these things dont work but wrong as to why. They dont work because the government isn't pumping enough into them, not because they are wasted programs[/QUOTE]

Well, the Republican lie is that they run up the debt massively then blame a Democrat to fix it. So Democrats have to fight two Santa Clauses while in office and they won't be popular either way.