Taxes

I Can No Longer Give Romney the Benefit of the Doubt

2018-04-23T16:49:54-05:00August 5th, 2012|Categories: Politics, Taxes|Tags: , , , |

I have always assumed that Romney’s tax statements over the past 10 years would show a rich financially astute businessman who took advantage of every legal means of reducing his taxes.  I wouldn’t be happy that he probably paid a lower tax rate than I do but it would be in keeping with super wealthy [...]

Put Up or Shut Up and Sauce for the Goose

2013-12-03T22:57:46-05:00August 3rd, 2012|Categories: Politics, Taxes|

In response to Sen. Reid’s statement that he has been told from an unnamed but reliable source that Romney didn’t pay taxes for 10 years, Mr. Romney said Reid should Put Up or Shut Up by giving out the name of the unnamed source. I can’t help but remembering Romney’s statement earlier in the campaign [...]

Do the Rich and Poor Require Different Types of Motivation? Republican’s Must Think So.

2013-12-03T22:58:01-05:00July 12th, 2012|Categories: Economy, Politics, Taxes|Tags: , , , , |

If taking away basic necessities like healthcare, food assistance programs, unemployment insurance payments is supposed to motivate the poor and unemployed to work harder, get a job (or a second or third job) then why isn't increasing the taxes on the rich a great way to motivate them to work harder creating more jobs, starting [...]

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