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In reply to the discussion: Chris Wallace: Romney's Tax Returns 'Politically Toxic' [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)30. If they pay 50% of all taxes collected, but only pay 13% of their income,
they have income way out of proportion to the incomes of ordinary people.
This could be explained easily to a lot of people in those terms. 13% of x = 50? (or 75%) of the total revenues of the US. The x must be just huge -- enormous -- way out of bounds.
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shouldn't Romney have to endure the "would I want to have a beer with this guy" Test??
Heather MC
Aug 2012
#27
interesting article about why they can't drink non-alcoholic beer or decaf coffee
tomm2thumbs
Aug 2012
#47
They've actually got one of the Koch brothers as a delegate. Maybe they'll eliminate the middle man.
freshwest
Aug 2012
#13
Everything I'm hearing from FoxNews sounds like a post-mortem on Romney's campaign
tomm2thumbs
Aug 2012
#6
Maybe Wallace pays a lot higher percentage. This whole thing blows the cover off
brewens
Aug 2012
#9
As long as the questions are hanging out there, we have to assume the worst.
JDPriestly
Aug 2012
#65
Any day that Mitt Romney campaigns for himself is a 'Bad Day for Mitt Romney...'
tomm2thumbs
Aug 2012
#18
The fact that huge corporations and folks like Romney do not pay their fair share is a big issue.
Webster Green
Aug 2012
#53