Question: Was Romney taxed twice on his income as wingers claim?

all I ask is he get taxed four score..

He had no 'ordinary income,' presumably 'his' corporation's profits were taxed, but not sure of tax status of 'his' Bain. MOST/all of his, immediate taxes were capital gains=15%.

Ipso facto.

it's rare that it's something important.

The whiners talk about how if you own stock and the company paid taxes, you paying taxes on your dividends or other profits is double taxation. That's bullshit for a lot of reasons and not worth going into.

Some have tried to claim that if I make a hundred bucks, and that's taxed, then I buy something for 50 bucks the guy I bought it from is taxed again. That's even stinkier bullshit.

Closer to the point is if you own an S corp and it pays taxes, and then you pay taxes on what you take out of it, you're taxed double. It could happen that you are taxed more than if you didn't have the S corp, but you should have talked to your tax guy long before this happened. Same thing is possible for some partnerships or sole proprietorships.

The simple fact is that every time money changes hands somebody is going to pay a tax. The only question is just how much tax.

then sales taxes.

False canard to hide the fact that the rich pay less at the margins than people who fucking work for a living.

Their argument is that corporations are taxed and then their dividends are taxed. However, the other way to look at it is that a corporation needs capital and labor - and they "pay" for each. The money that Mitt gets from capital gains is the amount he sells something for minus the cost he bought it at. So, both the capital gains and the dividends are NEW money that he gets by lending his money - and it is that new money he has that he is taxed on.

If you had, you would've seen the other post, posted not long before yours.

you, as a separate person separate from the corporation, have to pay taxes on dividends the corporation pays you.

If you have a 401k, you probably own shares in stock. Dividends are being paid to your 401k. When you withdraw that, you will pay full income taxes on the share value AND the dividends. (If you get dividends outside of a tax deferred account, you pay only 15% taxes on dividends, like Mitt.)

GE & Exxon paid NO taxes last year.

then he can organize his company as a partnership or an S corporation.

The partners in a corporation are taxed, but the partnership is not separately taxed. (At least that is my understanding.)

A corporation is a separate legal entity from the person. It is only fair that the corporation and the person who invests in the corporation are each taxed on their earnings because they are viewed in the law as separate "persons." The corporation is a fictional "person" with its own tax ID number.

This is not true of some of the other business organizational forms.

On edit. Woops. It's more complicated. I'm just talking about the traditional, simple partnership. There are hybrids on all these things.