ug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Mitt Romney, confronted by persistent questions about his personal finances as the presidential race intensifies, said he paid a tax rate of at least 13 percent over the last decade.
Saying the âfascinationâ with his tax returns is âsmall- mindedâ at a time of big national and global challenges, the Republican challenger denied as âtotally falseâ charges that he had failed to pay taxes over the last decade.
âI did go back and look at my taxes, and over the past 10 years I never paid less than 13 percent,â Romney told reporters yesterday in a question-and-answer session in Greer, South Carolina. âEvery year, Iâve paid at least 13 percent, and if you add, in addition, the amount that goes to charity, why, the number gets well above 20 percent.â
President Barack Obamaâs re-election campaign, unwilling to abandon an issue it believes is resonating, shot back that Romney should, in the words of spokesman Ben LaBolt, âprove it.â Romney âhas forfeited the right to have us take him just at his word,â Lis Smith, an Obama spokeswoman, said in a statement.
The presidentâs team has emphasized the tax issue in some of its ads, including one that spotlighted a Swiss bank account Romney had with Zurich-based UBS AG that was closed in 2010.
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What about the college transcripts???
In his entire lifetime, how much in federal taxes has Barack Obama paid? How much has Obama and his wife Moochelle paid together? Romney paid about $3 million in 2010 alone.
How much money has Barack Obama taken from the government in salary and benefits in his lifetime? Unless I am mistaken, Romney has not collected his first dime of wages from any government source.
I am not surprised that with our economy crumbling before our very eyes that Obama wants to focus on something else. I am also not surprised that his cheerleaders are doing likewise, but I just cannot understand why they believe an Obama win is in their best interests.
Young people should fear a second Obama term more than anybody else. No age group has been hit harder than recent college graduates, particularly those who are black. People who fit that demographic are already mired in a depression and they can't seem to get enough of this imperial presidency.
Bob Seger Wrote:What about the college transcripts???
I would like to see them to.
Maybe Mitt or Obama should challenge the other
But then again it could be suicidal for either one.
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Bob Seger Wrote:What about the college transcripts???
I'm not concerned about the college transcripts. The grades are of minor importance assuming he did graduate. I am concerned about his college applications, financial aid applications, etc.
I want to know how someone who admits that he doped and duped his way through high school got in Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard. It appears entirely unbelievable from the sketchy facts that are known.
Since Kardashian was allegedly a "poor boy", who footed the massive tab?
these are reasonable questions and far more pertinent than Romney's tax returns.
Hoot Gibson Wrote:In his entire lifetime, how much in federal taxes has Barack Obama paid? How much has Obama and his wife Moochelle paid together? Romney paid about $3 million in 2010 alone.
How much money has Barack Obama taken from the government in salary and benefits in his lifetime? Unless I am mistaken, Romney has not collected his first dime of wages from any government source.
I am not surprised that with our economy crumbling before our very eyes that Obama wants to focus on something else. I am also not surprised that his cheerleaders are doing likewise, but I just cannot understand why they believe an Obama win is in their best interests.
Young people should fear a second Obama term more than anybody else. No age group has been hit harder than recent college graduates, particularly those who are black. People who fit that demographic are already mired in a depression and they can't seem to get enough of this imperial presidency.
This statement? Does Romney and his cheerleaders not focus on transcripts? Birth Certificates?
Harry Rex Vonner Wrote:I'm not concerned about the college transcripts. The grades are of minor importance assuming he did graduate. I am concerned about his college applications, financial aid applications, etc.
I want to know how someone who admits that he doped and duped his way through high school got in Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard. It appears entirely unbelievable from the sketchy facts that are known.
Since Kardashian was allegedly a "poor boy", who footed the massive tab?
these are reasonable questions and far more pertinent than Romney's tax returns.
Considering he has bank accounts over seas and doesnt want us to know what exactly he payed. Just that its over 13%.
Thirteen percent may not sound like much. However, it is a far higher rate than is paid by the great majority of taxpayers who actually pay income taxes.
The percentage is a percentage of Romney's adjusted gross income (he could have done a better job of explaining that). It is the figure before itemized deductions for such items as charitable contributions, property taxes, etc. are deducted and before any deduction for exemptions is taken.
Romney gives a lot to charity. For example he gave all the money he inherited from his family to BYU (another fact he should do a better job of making public).
Modesty is a virtue. However, when you are running for office against a guy whose favorite and most used word is "I", you better fight back. Romney has a good story to tell including the successes of Bain Capital (ask all those workers at Staples and at the dozens of other failing companies and hundreds of thousands of jobs his company saved). He better get it told by someone.
Harry Rex Vonner Wrote:Thirteen percent may not sound like much. However, it is a far higher rate than is paid by the great majority of taxpayers who actually pay income taxes.
The percentage is a percentage of Romney's adjusted gross income (he could have done a better job of explaining that). It is the figure before itemized deductions for such items as charitable contributions, property taxes, etc. are deducted and before any deduction for exemptions is taken.
Romney gives a lot to charity. For example he gave all the money he inherited from his family to BYU (another fact he should do a better job of making public).
Modesty is a virtue. However, when you are running for office against a guy whose favorite and most used word is "I", you better fight back. Romney has a good story to tell including the successes of Bain Capital (ask all those workers at Staples and at the dozens of other failing companies and hundreds of thousands of jobs his company saved). He better get it told by someone.
If he has done all of this and truly paid 13%. With nothing to hide. Why does he not just release them.
And yes i wish obama would release his college transcripts. Im wondering if Real Badman has a shot at president.
Hoot Gibson Wrote:In his entire lifetime, how much in federal taxes has Barack Obama paid? How much has Obama and his wife Moochelle paid together? Romney paid about $3 million in 2010 alone.
How much money has Barack Obama taken from the government in salary and benefits in his lifetime? Unless I am mistaken, Romney has not collected his first dime of wages from any government source.
I am not surprised that with our economy crumbling before our very eyes that Obama wants to focus on something else. I am also not surprised that his cheerleaders are doing likewise, but I just cannot understand why they believe an Obama win is in their best interests.
Young people should fear a second Obama term more than anybody else. No age group has been hit harder than recent college graduates, particularly those who are black. People who fit that demographic are already mired in a depression and they can't seem to get enough of this imperial presidency.
obama's last 11 years tax returns
http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.ns...taxreturns
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/...12016.html
i would sure like to see mitt's last 10 years tax returns he said
he's never paid less than 13.6% is that just his federal rate or
is that his fed state social medicare taxs combined?
:please:
Wildcatk23 Wrote:[/B]
Considering he has bank accounts over seas and doesnt want us to know what exactly he payed. Just that its over 13%.
If Romney hadn't reported the income from those accounts on his tax returns and paid all applicable taxes on that interest, you and the other Kardashian apologists wouldn't even be aware of those accounts.
Both parties use the IRS as a political tool against their opponents. You can rest assured that Romney's income tax returns have been thoroughly audited by the IRS annually. If anything was wrong with the returns, Kardashian, Gibbs, and the whole crew at MSNBC would be all over it.
The tax returns are a non-issue. But, then, you boys can't run on Kardashian's laundry list of complete failures, can you?
Wildcatk23 Wrote:If he has done all of this and truly paid 13%. With nothing to hide. Why does he not just release them.
And yes i wish obama would release his college transcripts. Im wondering if Real Badman has a shot at president.
Why should he release them and who gives a d--- about the grade transcripts? Get the applications and financial aid information. That is relevant. Already heavily audited tax returns and grade transcripts are immaterial. This isn't difficult to comprehend.
Wildcatk23 Wrote:This statement? Does Romney and his cheerleaders not focus on transcripts? Birth Certificates?
Romney has not made an issue of Obama's college transcripts. Those of us who have, have done so mainly in response to Obama's demands for more of Romney's tax returns than McCain provided in the 2008 campaign.
It does not take a genius to understand that this bogus issue is all about distracting idiots who buy into it to ignore that wages are falling and unemployment is climbing, and that is the Obama record that people like you want us to forget. Unfortunately for Obama, people know when they are out of work and they know when friends and family are out of work; and people who want a job or a better job don't care about how much om federal income taxes Obama paid ten years ago.
I repeat my questions, WC - how much income tax has Obama and his wife paid in their entire lifetimes? Is it as much as Romney paid in 2010 alone? Obama hired tax cheat Tim Geitner as his economic expert. He did not seemed concerned that the brains behind the stimulus had a large bill for back taxes, did he? During their entire lifetimes, how much money have the Obamas made from private companies versus government organizations? How many payroll checks have they signed? How many jobs can Obama prove that he created versus Romney's stellar record of job creation in the private sector?
You, and other Obama supporters in your age group are being played for saps and you seem strangely happy about it.
nky Wrote:Affirmative action?
More likely fraud and benefits for which only foreign exchange students were eligible.
nky Wrote:Affirmative action?
Could be. Could be that his African ties played a major part. In any case, a student with his self-admitted negative high school record doesn't just get into these colleges. And students don't just transfer from Occidental to Columbia in the middle of his undergraduate work. It all smells.
Hoot Gibson Wrote:More likely fraud and benefits for which only foreign exchange students were eligible.
It's hard being an Indonesian Americans.
Vector seems surprisingly quiet
nky Wrote:Vector seems surprisingly quiet
He often draws blanks. It ain't easy being somebody's clone.
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Hoot Gibson Wrote:More likely fraud and benefits for which only foreign exchange students were eligible.
vector Wrote:you could get your boy trump release barry's transcript
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Actually, I don't disagree with vector on this one. Whatever "devices" Kardashian's boys used to get sealed divorce files on two of his opponents in Illinois should be used by Romney people to get the applications. Well placed greenbacks can uncover a lot. I am confident that the end will justify the means and, in the end, it just may save the country. As Nike says, "Just do it".
I'm still having a hard time with why it matters. Romney followed the laws of this country. He paid the taxes that were due. He used the legally available tax laws. Some one of his income level is more likely to be audited than most. Yet ........there is nothing there.
This is just utter nonsense to divert the mindless voters of this country away from the really issues facing us and the poor leadership currently being displayed at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
If any of you want to pay more in taxes than you need to see this website
https://www.pay.gov/paygov/forms/formIns...d=23779454
Harry Rex Vonner Wrote:Why should he release them and who gives a d--- about the grade transcripts? Get the applications and financial aid information. That is relevant. Already heavily audited tax returns and grade transcripts are immaterial. This isn't difficult to comprehend.
Excellent point. That's why we have an Infernal Revenue Service in the first place. They have looked his taxes over time and again. I wouldn't be surprised if a contingency staff hadn't been assigned in times past to
really delve into them. This whole business is nothing more than an attempt by the Obama camp to smear Romney with a false charge of impropriety. As has been suggested, Romney's record reads like who's who, when compared to Obama's. What is really sad is that so many folks are willing, due to bias, to support these unsubstantiated lies. Nothing about the democrats has anything to do with truth. Propaganda, policy distortions, lies, and rumors are the daily fare emanating out of Washington and the DNC.
TheRealThing Wrote:Excellent point. That's why we have an Infernal Revenue Service in the first place. They have looked his taxes over time and again. I wouldn't be surprised if a contingency staff hadn't been assigned in times past to really delve into them. This whole business is nothing more than an attempt by the Obama camp to smear Romney with a false charge of impropriety. As has been suggested, Romney's record reads like who's who, when compared to Obama's. What is really sad is that so many folks are willing, due to bias, to support these unsubstantiated lies. Nothing about the democrats has anything to do with truth. Propaganda, policy distortions, lies, and rumors are the daily fare emanating out of Washington and the DNC.
And the republicans have Todd Akins', Sarah Palins', Michelle Bachmans', and the Rand Pauls', not to mention Bitch McConnell and Boner.
TheRealVille Wrote:And the republicans have Todd Akins', Sarah Palins', Michelle Bachmans', and the Rand Pauls', not to mention Bitch McConnell and Boner.
You are opening Pandora's Box, TheRealVille. The Republicans you mention can't remotely compare to the assortment of oddballs, loafers, malcontents, nuts, socialists, freeloaders, etc, that you boys claim as Democrats. Nancy "Botox" Pelosi, senile Joe Biden, Maxine "The Mouth" Waters, Sheila Jackson Lee (a/k/a "The Linebacker"), that true moron running for congress in the 4th District (Adkins), and all the rest of your comrades could fill dozens of zoos.
I would feel safe in saying that Romney's income taxes paid plus his contributions for any one year would dwarf Kardashian's total lifetime gross earnings.
And, from what we are told about Biden, I am pleased to know that my annual contributions to charity are over 100 times as much as Biden's annual contributions. That senile Biden is a real specimen. I'm glad I don't have to defend that moron.
TheRealVille Wrote:And the republicans have Todd Akins', Sarah Palins', Michelle Bachmans', and the Rand Pauls', not to mention Bitch McConnell and Boner.
What is your point? Akin is just a candidate, I don't know a thing about him and I'm not in a position to defend him. As for the rest, anyone of them on their worst day would be way better than politicians who think lying is just a means to an end. And that certainly incudes the office of the president. I just heard Obama tell another whopper only a couple hours ago. He said he doesn't have anything to do with his own superpack or the horrendous lie they put forth on the now famous Joe Soptic cancer death ad. Obama's superpack is run by one of Robert Gibbs subordinates. And was started in response to the SCOTUS's decision to uphold current campaign law. Then he said nobody associated with his campaign has ever called Romney a felon. See article---
http://www.politico.com/politico44/2012/...28757.html BTW, Stephanie Cutter is Obama's
DEPUTY CAMPAIGN MANAGER for 2012
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