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 [...]
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 [...]
There are only a few reasons I can think of why an American like Mitt Romney would put, or allow to be put, a substantial amount of their wealth in offshore bank accounts. To evade US taxes (which is illegal) To avoid US taxes (which is legal but not always patriotic) Because he doesn't trust American banks [...]
When the home prices were in free fall and banks were foreclosing on millions of homes, Mitt Romney famously said that instead of the government intervening to help homeowners, home prices should be allowed to drop and eventually investors will come into the housing market, buy up the properties and rebuild the market value of [...]