As Ann Romney awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed in her bed into a monstrous vermin (she was Leona Helmsley). She lay on her fur-stole-wrapped back and saw, as she lifted her head up a little, numerous bags of golden coins, which she had not given to the IRS, flickered helplessly before her eyes.
I doubt that he&#039;s been <i>lying</i> on his tax returns, but the thing about the eleventy-million-page Internal Revenue Code is that there&#039;s about a hundred pages that applies to the 99.9%, and all the rest is specialized loopholes and money-printing shit for the very rich. I expect that a thorough analysis of Rmoney&#039;s returns would reveal vigourous use of these sections of the code during the years when he was building his fortune.
Also, there&#039;s a chance that there may be some transactions that were actually illegal according to contemporaneous IRS interpretation of the code, but which they never bothered to pursue (or simply didn&#039;t notice). In most cases, the statute of limitations will have expired, but it would still make a good story.
Basically, I think his records will show that he didn&#039;t make his fortune by &quot;running a business&quot;, but by &quot;jacking the system&quot;.
And correct me if I&#039;m wrong, but doesn&#039;t the most complained-about &quot;attack&quot; consist of an Obama campaign staffer saying only that if Rmoney lied on the SEC filings, that would be a felony?
(&quot;He is the problem&quot; would be more problematic to me if the same (phenomenal!) ad didn&#039;t set up that punchline so thoroughly...)
I&#039;m still open to the chance that the returns are pure as the driven snow, and his advisers are exercising foresight for once and letting us getting all frothy about &#039;em. Except that every day Mitt and Ann try to, um, &quot;dressage&quot; the issue hurts their image worse with the swing voters... (Why are they unwilling to do what every other major candidate has done, hmmmm?)
Anyhooo, I&#039;m really looking forward to widespread revelations of the <a href="http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2012\/07\/18\/how-mitt-saved-the-olympics\/" target="_blank">Olympics bribery scandal</a>!
I would take her more seriously if she also said &quot;And Obama has given you people all you need about his past. So shut the fuck up Sununu, Arpaio, Trump, Bachmann, Palin, Limbaugh....&quot;
I doubt that he&#039;s been <i>lying</i> on his tax returns, but the thing about the eleventy-million-page Internal Revenue Code is that there&#039;s about a hundred pages that applies to the 99.9%, and all the rest is specialized loopholes and money-printing shit for the very rich. I expect that a thorough analysis of Rmoney&#039;s returns would reveal vigourous use of these sections of the code during the years when he was building his fortune.
Also, there&#039;s a chance that there may be some transactions that were actually illegal according to contemporaneous IRS interpretation of the code, but which they never bothered to pursue (or simply didn&#039;t notice). In most cases, the statute of limitations will have expired, but it would still make a good story.
Basically, I think his records will show that he didn&#039;t make his fortune by &quot;running a business&quot;, but by &quot;jacking the system&quot;.
Whoops...meant to add &quot;...on the Daily Show last night&quot; to the first sentence.
...and the horse she rode in on.
Don&#039;t get her started on the nails girls.
And correct me if I&#039;m wrong, but doesn&#039;t the most complained-about &quot;attack&quot; consist of an Obama campaign staffer saying only that if Rmoney lied on the SEC filings, that would be a felony?
(&quot;He is the problem&quot; would be more problematic to me if the same (phenomenal!) ad didn&#039;t set up that punchline so thoroughly...)
I&#039;m still open to the chance that the returns are pure as the driven snow, and his advisers are exercising foresight for once and letting us getting all frothy about &#039;em. Except that every day Mitt and Ann try to, um, &quot;dressage&quot; the issue hurts their image worse with the swing voters... (Why are they unwilling to do what every other major candidate has done, hmmmm?)
Anyhooo, I&#039;m really looking forward to widespread revelations of the <a href="http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2012\/07\/18\/how-mitt-saved-the-olympics\/" target="_blank">Olympics bribery scandal</a>!
Oh, I think we can be pretty sure he gives 10% to the LSD Church. They pay attention to that shit.
&quot;We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. &quot;
That&#039;s all? With most churches I know of, 10% is the <i>minimum</i> for a tithe you cheap whore.
&quot;You people&quot; Non-Mormons or the 99%?
Now I hate the Romney&#039;s a little bit more.
Condescending bitch.
I would take her more seriously if she also said &quot;And Obama has given you people all you need about his past. So shut the fuck up Sununu, Arpaio, Trump, Bachmann, Palin, Limbaugh....&quot;
I know I can&#039;t be the only one who enjoyed the montage of Republican pundits asking for every document they could think of for Barack Obama.
(To the fuckers credit, though, a lot of conservatives have been saying Mitt should release them.)
And the Mormon Church turns around and uses that money to fix roads and employ firefighters and teachers, right?