Mitt Romney and taxes, the last word
The last word on special tax deductions for filers like Mitt Romney [Update Mon. Nov. 5 Actually the last word on Romney's taxes may be this Dutch article of today. The Volksrant reports that Romney lessened his tax pay-up by almost a hundred million Euros, by using tax mechanisms routed through the Netherlands as written [...]
In honor of Sunday morning, a prediction about Sunday morning
In honor of Sunday morning, a prediction about Sunday morning It’s Sunday morning, and we can expect that today’s morning talk shows will not be terse about the much-touted close and/or ‘tightening’ election. Close election is the moral indifferents’ ground game. It was their calling card; now it is their mantra. If it happens, it [...]
Benghazi , binders and birthers
Benghazi , binders and birthers With any luck, last night’s town-hall presidential debate will quell some unseemly attempts to exploit the attacks on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya. It will not end the topic, since the perpetrators have not been caught yet. When they are caught, that will be the point at which right-wingers [...]
Biden wins VP debate, Ryan gulps water
VP debate: Biden wins, Ryan gulps water C-Span is great. A recommendation for future debate watchers: C-Span is the way to go. Public broadcasting is the way to go. They’re the channels for navigating between the false split-the-dif mindset on the networks, on one hand, and the self-caressing party-time mindset on cable, on the [...]
A question for tonight’s VP debate
A question for tonight’s VP debate I have no prediction about tonight’s vice presidential debate between Vice President Joe Biden and GOP nominee (and congressional nominee) Paul Ryan. I do have one question beforehand, and it’s whether Ryan will say anything that will shed light on Mitt Romney. Listened to closely, Ryan might say [...]
Debating against an Etch-A-Sketch
Debating against an Etch-A-Sketch How could cutting federal programs and cutting taxes ‘grow the economy’? It was Gov. Mitt Romney who said, last night, that he would not reduce taxes for high-income individuals. It was Romney who said, “I’m not looking for a $5 trillion tax cut.” Romney repeatedly said he does not favor a [...]
Romney’s taxes and (almost) everybody else’s
Which tax loopholes would Romney want to cut? ‘Loophole’ is an elastic term, defined adequately for now by the free dictionary: “A way of escaping a difficulty, especially an omission or ambiguity in the wording of a contract or law that provides a means of evading compliance.” Broadly defined, tax loopholes are legal ways to [...]
Romney: “These are people who pay no income tax”
Romney: “These are people who pay no income tax” Where did this Mitt Romney come from? Let’s be clear, up top. Romney’s remarks at a Boca Raton fundraiser did not just link unworthy people, Obama voters, and the number ’47 percent’. Romney linked unworthy people, Obama voters, ’47 percent’, and “people who pay no income [...]
Where did Mitt Romney get his 43 percent figure?
Where did Mitt Romney get his 43 percent figure? Move over, Goldilocks. Mitt Romney has fine-tooled your metrics. As revealed yesterday by Mother Jones, Romney was videotaped at a May 17 fundraiser in Boca Raton giving affluent donors his assessment of the campaign with unbecoming clarity. He was particularly unbecoming about people who don’t vote [...]
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