The Barnyard

Guess Mitt isn't part of the 53%.

Harry said it was a Bain investor. Have to ask him for more details.

Of course Willard could just release a decade or so of tax returns like virtually every presidential candidate has for years and like his old man did. Then we wouldn't have to ask Harry.

From the story in the link: "Reid quoted an unnamed former business acquaintance of Romney's as claiming the candidate had avoided taxes for a full decade" (only an alleged claim, not a proven fact - offered by an unnamed business acquaintance, not a partner nor an associate)

For the sake of the argument, let's stipulate that to be true. Romney has complied with the law, otherwise I presume the IRS might have taken some legal recourse. The release of several years tax returns by previous candidates is neither an ethical standard nor a moral compass on which to judge future candidates.

As for Reid’s assertion Romney couldn’t get confirmed for a cabinet position without the tax returns being made available – not relevant and certainly the same argument could be made against Obama with all his personal records being kept sealed and unavailable for inspection and scrutiny.

Substantial = large size. What are these that you're referring too?

You're thinking of his grandfather.

I had a family member make a little over 17k last year. So I asked him about his SS and Medicare. It was below 1k. A little over 5%. If you had $1 and lost 5 pennies of it, you'd consider that substantial?. That's less than 1k that is going to a social program that doesn't benefit the collective.

Sales taxes are consumption based and are not federal.

That's what was taken out of his earnings, not what he received. And, he showed me his w-2, so, no, you retard, he's not lying.

Just to be clear, you say - 5% is substantial? Homeless people might be the only people that only have '$1 in this world'. We're talking about people that are gainfully employed.

What an entirely arrogant and dumbassed statement. Yeah we Republicans don't live in the real world. I've got news for you: we ALL live in the real world where Obama has monkey humped this economy sideways and because we don't agree with arrogant pricks like you on political matters does NOT mean we aren't living in the "real world". The last 3+ yars have been about as "real" as it gets.

I don't know about you, but I'm self employeed, I send the gov't an estimate tax check every few months, I pay my own bills, I waited until I could afford a child before having one, I care about my credit score, I drive a 15 year old vehicle bc I have more important bills and I don't lie/laugh/ignore when I'm late on a bill and a collector has called. If that's an example of a 'typical republican', I wonder his thoughts on all the dems that live in gov't housing, collect welfare checks, have babies to get more money and own iPhones while the gov't send sthem money.

I think my world is a little more 'real world' than the other.

But everything was GREAT the two years before that????

Like I said, you're all about as clueless as Willard "I made it on my own, my father only left me one million dollars" Rimney.;

His name Is Willard Milton Romney. Is he to good for me to address by his first name? I know little people like me who pay over 14% in taxes don't matter, but what name should I call him by to show proper respect?

And what's with the Rachel Maddow stuff? You are really shooting blanks. Maybe you should try some Vitamin E, or viagra like El Rushbo.

So your idea of manhood is criticizing typos?

How's the Dressage competition going over in London?