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A Tax Dodger Gets His Comeuppance

Posted on 06. Aug, 2012 by in Current Events, Politics

romney23 236x300 A Tax Dodger Gets His Comeuppance

Mitt Romney

It took the boldness and courage of the Speaker of the Senate to shine the light right where it belongs: Mitt Romney’s pocketbook. For centuries in this country men like Mitt Romney have plundered our resources and taxed our infrastructure in the name of “commerce,” which must be rich guy code for “my pocket.” This offense is egregious enough, but it is also compounded with the snotty assertion made by these thieves of our time and treasure that they should not pay the same tax rate as the peons they boss around all day.

I was worried at first, after the Huffington Post article first came out that Senator Reid and the Democrats would fold under the intense pressure of the conservative talk and TV machine to recant this important statement. So it was a great relief, tinged with some minor satisfaction, to see Senator Reid call out Mitt Romney on his tax dodging yet again on the Senate floor. I for one believe the Senator and am quite sure that Romney’s bizarre and perverse fascination with hiding his finances from the American people he hopes to work for is certainly a cover up for embarrassing and possibly illegal pecuniary chicanery.

Now proper attention is finally being paid to the status of Mitt Romney as a tax cheat. The Republicans have tried repeatedly to obfuscate the issue by blaming President Obama for the shambles of an economy brought on by the twelve years of GOP mismanagement in the executive and legislative branches. They torpedoed the stimulus, which was working wonderfully and would have brought our economy out of the dumps in much the same way FDR’s expansive work projects did in the 1930s had proper funding continued, and now they want to sink the tax rate on men like Mitt. The course of such actions is painfully clear: to grow the monetary wealth and political power of the 1% at the expense of not just the United States, but the world at large.

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  • BDONKY123

    lucy lu,
    your envy is turning your face green. Romney takes tthe same deductions as Reid, Pelosi and the other wealthy politicians on both sides of the aisle. Donot be a hater. All you sheep on the left,relax, take a deep breath and prepare for Obamas going away party. L.O.L.

    • Logic

      lol how about you try showing me ONE non-Fox News related poll saying Romney is ahead…just one lol.  The right is supposed to be the conspiracy prone…searching all over for birth certificates and questioning everything from Obama’s faith to his patriotism…now you just sit back and take your facts from the spoon Romney feeds you from.  What a bunch of dopes! 

  • JazzQuipster

    The Harry Reid flap is an example of right-wing manufactured outrage at its finest. There’s only one way to either prove, or disprove Harry Reid’s claim that Romney paid no income tax for ten years, and that is for Romney to release his tax returns for those years. 

    Since Romney won’t do it, the only logical conclusion is that whatever is contained in those tax returns would be very damaging to Romney’s presidential ambitions if they ever see the light of day. 

    After the crash of 2008, most middle-class Americans are painfully aware that the game has been rigged by big money guys like Romney. 

    So why would anyone in their right mind vote for Romney to be the president of the United States?  Romney’s tax plan has already been judged to be more giveaways to the top 1% while the rest of us would see an average increase of $2000 in federal income tax. Romney supports the Paul Ryan budget that would end Medicare and replace it with a voucher scheme in which senior citizens would be forced to try to buy health insurance on the open market at whatever insurance companies want to charge them. 

    The author is right, it is a moral imperative that we make sure that Mitt Romney does not become the president.

    • Bdonky123

      you must be on the D.N.C. s email list for talking points of the day. Virtually word for word.  “Morally imperative ? “  If you compare  business experience, political experience, and especially ideology ( Obamas is shady and not really known completely at this point, as if he’s hiding something. )  Consider all this and you are right, it is a  MORAL IMPERATIVE  that Obama does not become the president again.

      • JazzQuipster

        Business experience? If by that you mean Romney’s record of busting out American companies by loading them up with debt and stealing the worker’s pensions, we don’t need that ‘experience’ in the White House.

        Political experience? Romney is a one term governor who has spent the last 10 years running for president. He’s been rehearsing so long you would think he would be better prepared to develop a coherent platform and not bumble around the world stage like an amateur.

        As for ideology, please explain to me what Romney’s ideology is is. It seems to change on an hourly basis depending who he’s pandering to or which inconsistency he’s trying to explain away.

        • kamien

          If its inconsistency or pandering just look at Obama over the past few months. He has switched sides on virtually all issues to PANDER to whichever part of his base is dis-satisfied with him at any given moment. What ever they want, the Great Panderer will do or say, just give him a moment.

        • RIverForestJ

          Anybody who wants to cut pensions and pull back, government is fine with me.

  • Anonymous

    Welcome Lucy! I thought this was an Onion piece at first, but in any event nice to see new articles!

  • RIverForestJ

    Whatever Harry Reid says, go the other way. He fits right into this site. Totally mobbed up.

  • Dick Souse

    Romney earned his money legally. Pelosi, Reied Valerie Jarrett, Barry Soetoro earned their money pimping , pandering and I am quite sure illegally.