"If people think there's something wrong with being successful in America, then they'd better vote for the other guy. Because I've been extraordinarily successful, and I want to use that success and that know-how to help the American people."
- Mitt Romney
"I stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success."
- Mitt Romney
"If we become one of those societies that attacks success, one outcome is certain -- there will be a lot less success."
-- Mitt Romney
"I'm not ashamed to say I was successful"
-- Mitt Romney
"I don't intend to release the tax returns. I don't."
-- Mitt Romney
Mitt Romney won't be filing his taxes tomorrow. Mitt Romney feels about his tax returns the way the bad guy in The Spy Who Loved Me feels about the plans for his submarine tracking device: Anyone who even comes into contact with them must die. So he's filed for an extension. And that's his prerogative, I suppose, but it kind of fights against the main argument for his candidacy, that he's a proud, success-drenched, successful successmaker, effulgent with, well, success.
"He knows the meaning of success."
-- Thunderball
You'd think Mitt Romney would want us to see his tax returns. So we could look upon his gross and tremble. The way if John Glenn were running, he might want us to see a list of the times he went into space. Maybe it wouldn't be germane to the job of president at all, but you have to admit, if John Glenn were running, and he refused to talk about space with the sustained obstinance that Mitt Romney refuses to talk about money, you'd start thinking something was up.
To get on board with Mitt Romney, you have to hold two ideas in your head. 1) You should vote for him, because he's made a lot of money and 2) You must never, ever ask about his money.
For reasons unknowable, for months now, Mitt Romney has been fighting against releasing his past tax returns. So it's not really surprising -- just pretty ballsy -- that he's filled for an extension on his 2011 taxes, and we may not see them before mid-October.
1) He's a financial super-genius. 2) He can't find the shoebox where he keeps his taxi receipts.
It sounds like a flimsy lie, but I suppose we have to take him at his word. He is a very successful man in the highly competitive field of success.
Mitt gets to choose when he'll pretend to finish doing his taxes. I'm not saying he's a devious sleazo, gaming our tax deadlines for political advantage -- that would be uncivil -- but I wouldn't be too surprised if his taxes didn't just happen to come out on a day when they'll get the least possible news coverage. A news cycle when, just by happy chance, there's some other big story. And the lower -- and more embarrassing -- Mitt's tax rate is, the bigger the news story it hides behind will have to be:
ROMNEY TAX RATE - EMBARRASSING EVENT
20% to 25% - Israel Bombs Iran
17% to 19.9% - Israel Nukes Iran
15% to 16.9% - Israel Nukes Iran; Radiation Gives Iranians Superpowers
13% to 14.9% - New iPhone
11% to 12.9% - Rise of Planet of the Apes
9% to 10.9% - World Series Goes Seven Games / Seven Earthquakes
7% to 8.9% - Earthquakes Cause Nipple Slip Facebook Hunger Games
5% to 6.9% - Kate Middleton and Prince William are Pregnant
3% to 4.9% - Pippa Middleton and Prince William are Pregnant
0% to 2.9% - Prince William is Pregnant
Rep. Charles Rangel: Taxing You Twice: Mitt Romney's Draconian Deduction Plan
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| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Electoral Votes (270 to win) |
332 | 206 |
| Obama | Romney | |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 65,899,660 | 60,932,152 |
| Percent | 51.1% | 47.2% |
| Democrats* | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Current Senate | 53 | 47 |
| Seats gained or lost | +2 | -2 |
| New Total | 55 | 45 |
| Democrats | Republicans | |
|---|---|---|
| Seats won | 201 | 234 |
i.e. I gave all the money I got "After My Father Died" away to BYU.
Yes, but he was given not only huge sums while his father was alive, but his fathers business connections, the church business connections "Romney is related to multiple church leaders etc..." all went to his company.
Romney is the son of an Auto company CEO who was CEO when the Auto companies owned Michigan, then his father became governor of Michigan, then one of the richest states in the country, and then he ran for President.
Romney is less Self Made than Paris Hilton.
What disturbs me more than most things about Romney is ability to lie - his ease and unflappability to speak untruths and to spin facts. This is a man that should never be in control of the White House.
I feel that the people who are behind his rise to becoming the nominee are, because of his constant changing of positions, licking their chops that he would do their bidding once entrenched in the White House. Scary!
FnF
Mitt: "I have a plan to eliminate wasteful government agencies."
Everyone: "Okay what is it?"
Mitt: "I can't tell you. You'll just have to vote for me and find out."
Mitt made money extracting others wealth by cutting their pay, outsourcing their jobs and the tax payers picking up the cost of the pension funds lost, unemployment, food stamps, medicaid...
Then that which was taxed at 30%(employee wages), plus medicare and soc sec taxes( almost 16%), is converted to just a 15% tax. No matter how much money Romney pays in taxes ..it never pays back the cost of his wealth extraction had overall in lost taxes and the expense of out of wrok workers, lost pensions made up by the tax payers...
Regards
My Father faught in ww2 in Airforce on a Navel ship
and IN Korea in the Air Force on an navel carrier.
Great infromation