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Hardly ...twice the percentage of taxes ...yet most likely a higher percentage if we include the offshore account income!
I knew when I wrote this succinct factual OP it would attract attacks on me! ; )
Hardly ...twice the percentage of taxes ...yet most likely a higher percentage if we include the offshore account income!
I knew when I wrote this succinct factual OP it would attract attacks on me! ; )
You don't pay an effective rate of 28% so stop fibbing
she probably thinks because a little bit of her income is in the 28% marginal bracket she is paying at a rate higher than Romney. She isn't. Most of us making between 1-5 million a year are paying effective rates around 24%-the highest of any income cohort.
Great, so if you think times are good, vote for Obama. If you think things should be better, vote for Romney.
I'll take that trade-off.
What a response ... to my OP! Wow and those who "liked" this reply.
So, you don't have a single deduction? No charity, mortgage interest, etc.
Don't the stats pretty much show how it does effect people? I'm not saying that people are or should be jumping up and down and celebrating economic victory... but clearly the data shows that people are being effected in a positive way.
I don't see how Romney could make things better. He and Ryan would just put us back where we were 4 years ago.
My house is paid for and my charitable was not enough to make a difference. I paid over 22,000 in tuition and so I had to cut back. I helped a few relatives and friends directly and helped to support a kid that attended my sons school that ended up homeless.
I invested the highest amount into my retirement account so it was not taxed. My state has no sales tax so our property and state taxes are higher ... I would prefer a consumption tax.
I deducted my dependents and my health insurance premiums.
Yet this is not about me.
This is about using Okham's Razor to make a decision on POTUS.
I don't see how Romney could make things better. He and Ryan would just put us back where we were 4 years ago.
I don't see it. If you are right, though, then Obama should have an easy path back to the presidency. If things are great, why change horses mid-stream?
What it'll come down to is whether things really are so great.
I'm voting for Romney because he understands the way the economy works in a way that Obama never could. Obama is a nice guy, but he's a university professor. Romney is a corporate superstar. Everything he's touched his entire career has turned to gold.
Right now we need someone to come in and help guide this economy to where it needs to be. I trust Romeny with that more than Obama.
Great, so if you think times are good, vote for Obama. If you think things should be better, vote for Romney.
I'll take that trade-off.
I'm voting for Romney because he understands the way the economy works in a way that Obama never could. Obama is a nice guy, but he's a university professor. Romney is a corporate superstar. Everything he's touched his entire career has turned to gold.
Right now we need someone to come in and help guide this economy to where it needs to be. I trust Romeny with that more than Obama.
Well what he's touched that turned to gold for HIM didn't work out as gold for some of those whose backs that he earned that gold off of.
Romney is not an expert on the economy. Romney has an economic adviser who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under GW Bush. I don’t see that he advised Bush very well on the economy, and why would we want a POTUS who is getting the same advise GW Bush got?
Mitt Romney is good at venture capitalism. That does not mean he is good at creating jobs in an economy that needs jobs.
Venture capitalism seems to me to be a microcosm of the economy. He's been involved with all kinds of businesses from all sectors of the economy. Thus, he understands the economy.
Obama taught school. Nothing wrong with that, and I voted for him in 2008, but we really need someone who can get the economy straight.
Venture capitalism seems to me to be a microcosm of the economy. He's been involved with all kinds of businesses from all sectors of the economy. Thus, he understands the economy.
Venture capitalism seems to me to be a microcosm of the economy. He's been involved with all kinds of businesses from all sectors of the economy. Thus, he understands the economy.
Obama taught school. Nothing wrong with that, and I voted for him in 2008, but we really need someone who can get the economy straight.
Romney is not an expert on the economy. Romney has an economic adviser who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under GW Bush. I don’t see that he advised Bush very well on the economy, and why would we want a POTUS who is getting the same advise GW Bush got?
Mitt Romney is good at venture capitalism. That does not mean he is good at creating jobs in an economy that needs jobs.
What economic indicators would you look for to show you that the economy straight? Or headed in the right direction?
Well what he was asked to do at Bain is exactly what he did and he did it well. His job at Bain was to maximize the investors money and that is what he did. You might not like what Bain does, but it is what it is. He did a good job in Mass. and he did a good job at the Olympics.
Romney doesn't need to create jobs. He will create an environment that will spur creation of jobs...unlike Obama who has created an environment that has suppressed the creation of jobs.
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