Mitt Romney Tax Returns Released: Paid Just 13.9% Rate In 2010, Had Swiss Bank Accoun
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LOL!!!! I will join you in your bunker, but.... as your attorney I advise you to.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1dtnBUzewU
Depends on the situation.
I'm not a fan of encouraging irresponsibility and the vast majority of abortions are the result of poor decisions. I don't believe that abortion should be viewed as a form of birth control.
I believe that late term abortions are particularly repugnant. If the life of the mother is threatened, then the mother has a right to choose to protect her own life. But other than that, I think the decision to abort a pregnancy should be made much earlier, if at all. Once the fetus is viable outside the womb, I have a hard time making the case that anyone should be allowed to remove that chance.
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Gov. Romneyâs taxes look to be compliant. Sure there are some valid questions, but thatâs the case with most taxpayers.
http://www.greencompany.com/blog/index.php?postid=135
As I fight off a financial-transaction tax which could put traders out of business - see that popular thread on Elite - I will also defend the other tax interests of traders and investment managers. That includes lower long-term capital gains tax rates, lower 60/40 futures tax rates and carried-interest tax rates for investment managers.
Don't throw Romney under the tax bus, because otherwise Democrats may throw traders under the bus.
Gov. Romneyâs taxes look to be compliant. Sure there are some valid questions, but thatâs the case with most taxpayers.
http://www.greencompany.com/blog/index.php?postid=135
As I fight off a financial-transaction tax which could put traders out of business - see that popular thread on Elite - I will also defend the other tax interests of traders and investment managers. That includes lower long-term capital gains tax rates, lower 60/40 futures tax rates and carried-interest tax rates for investment managers.
Don't throw Romney under the tax bus, because otherwise Democrats may throw traders under the bus.
In my opinion, a politician should never vote his views unless his views are in alignment with that of his constituency.
If I were an elected official, I would put every major bill out in the open for all in my electorate to see, and allow them to vote - via an SSN secure system - on the issue. Then I would vote the way they wanted me to, not the way I wanted to. THAT is the job of the politician - to represent the people.
If I were an elected official, I would put every major bill out in the open for all in my electorate to see, and allow them to vote - via an SSN secure system - on the issue. Then I would vote the way they wanted me to, not the way I wanted to. THAT is the job of the politician - to represent the people.
In 2009, 97 percent of Americans filing taxes paid 11.9 percent or less.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...eys-tax-rate-below-most-wage-earning-american
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-s...eys-tax-rate-below-most-wage-earning-american
I'm not saying they should. I'm saying that is the reality.
But Tsing Tao is getting at the core issue. Are the people electing you to push your own agenda, or are they electing you to represent them? Since we are talking about Romney's evolving positions, we'll consider his most criticized stance on abortion.
Critics like to claim that he was fervently pro-choice and then pro-life. If you are going to make that argument, then we need to check out the quotes from those time periods. Was he really fervently pro-choice?
1994
When it was pointed out that he personally was pro-life and asked how the public could believe that he wouldn't push a pro-life agenda as senator.
On a separate occassion...
When reading the actual quotes in context, I just don't buy into what his critics say about him. He made it very clear during 1994 and later as governor that while he personally was pro-life, that issue was not to be his focus, and he respected the laws already in place as representing the will of the people of Massachusetts.
He has since made it clear that such a position was ignorant of the significance of the issue as governor. That is, to think that he could simply focus on other things and leave abortion untouched was naive. He was bombarded with issues related to abortion and embryonic stem cell research. In every case that he had to take action, his action was pro-life as he vetoed every attempt to extend pro-choice laws. However, he did keep his promise of not trying at all to change the existing laws.