Why in the hell will Romney not release his tax returns? I can't think of any reason he wouldn't other than it will make him look bad....maybe very bad. Also....I just saw GMA and the head of the GOP vehemently used a dishonest argument to refute the Tax Policy analysis that Romney's tax plan will raise taxes on the middle class: "Evidence the Romney campaign does not have a good counterargument, part two: They tried to brush the Tax Policy Center's analysis off as "just another biased study from a former Obama staffer." That former Obama staffer is Adam Looney, one of the study's three co-authors, who was a staff economist on the Council of Economic Advisers from 2009 to 2010. But William Gale, one of Looney's coauthors on this study, was a staff economist on George H.W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. Plus, the Tax Policy Center is directed by Donald Marron, who was actually a principal on George W. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. Calling the Tax Policy Center biased is ridiculous. Just ask ... the Romney campaign, which referred to the center's work as "objective, third-party analysis" during the primary." http://www.pressherald.com/news/mitt-romneys-tax-plan_2012-08-05.html
Obama hasn't released anything. Are you equally upset about that? If so, I assume you won't be voting for him again. Right?
Obama's campaign has noting about HIM to run on. Although tax returns as supposed to be confidential, I'm betting that Obama's stooges in the IRS think that perhaps something in Romney's returns give them something to harp about. So you trust the scumbags who are breaking the law about confidential tax returns? How come we've never seen Obama's college transcript? Many think that he listed his birth as Kenya so he could get some breaks on admission and financial aid. You trust him????
:shock: you cant release informaton you havent filed yet his accountants got an extension and he hasnt even filed yet..... and why should his tax returns matter you just want an excuse because you cant vote for someone who is successful in buisness.
So.....nobody here is able to defend the GOP RNC head who threw out such blatant B/S this morning about the report detailing Romney's tax plan raising taxes on the middle class?? Why the dishonesty? Why do you guys so accept that as normal? George.....Obama won't release what? I googled that question and all I get is articles about Romney not releasing his. What's the deal on that one?
Why do you accept the dishonesty of the DNC? The tax cheat they appointed to run the IRS??? You excuse this? :shock:
It took him three years to come up with a birth certificate that may be authentic. Do you think you could do better than that?
I thought the birther thing wasn't chic anymore with the GOP... :roll: In any event since my ass is firmly planted in the middle class these days and I still owe on credit cards ( diligently paying em down mind you.....but still owing ), and I have a family that I must provide healthcare coverage for this latest round of deceptive and dishonest statements by the GOP have sealed my voting preferences for this fall. I would bet a Romney presidency would outright cost me 30-40K over the next 4 years.
So when it comes down to one's financial future we're supposed to vote for the party who in the past 3 years as the majority party in the Senate didn't even pass a budget???
Well since you are the only person on this BB in the middle class and it gives you comfort to fear what Romney may do as opposed to the carnage that Obama has wrought, I think you are wise to vote for four more years like the four we are completing now. Barack is your man!
Well....since the policies of the Bush administration ultimately pulled me back down into the middle class from the precipice of doing better I need to pay close attention to those whose policies would promote ripping me off......so I know which way to go in November to at least do my part in preventing said rip-off.
Gipper.....come on now. You live in the Detroit area and you don't understand the comment? Better stick your head out of the 19th hole at the country club and get an idea of just what has gone down in Detroit.....from a personal income standpoint most especially.
George....the auto show industry that I was so tied in to over the last 15 years of my career in Detroit was absolutely devasted by the turn of events in 2007, 2008 and in the first half of 2009. In fact...by the end of 2009 I can honestly say I know of very few if any people that were left doing the same job for the same employer.....if they were even working at all. And as so many Americans found out one of the toughest consequences of this Great Recession was finding yourself working for a different company at a very reduced rate of compensation. This trend did not spare Detroit by any means and in fact probably hiy Detroit harder than most areas of the country. A great many workers in Detroit became much more middle class as a result of this recession than they had been for many many years in their careers.
Dave you better stick your head out of where it is because if you lift it up higher you'll hit your pancreas. I've never been a member of a country club. And with the exception of a few months, I've never lived in Grosse Pointe where the rich and the think -they're - rich do. My personal income took a tremendous hit in 2001 when a very large client was finally destroyed by foreign competition. I felt awful when my office staff lost their jobs. But I never blamed anyone because that's the way life is. Now for Detroit what are we talking about? The city? The reason the city of Detroit is broken and unrepairable is that it has been mismanaged and plundered for decades by race baiting demagogues. That has damaged us regionally as financial institutions have left the downtown area and located in other cities As for the auto companies, they had been mismanaged poorly for decades, never adapting to the changing world economic landscape. With the exception of Ford they were one economic decline from crashing. Their years of paying unskilled workers exorbitant wages and benefits left them unable to survive in a global economy. Only Ford which hired a chief exec from outside the auto industry survived because it had far superior management. As to housing values we all know the years of sub prime mortgage lending created a bubble that was going to burst sooner or later. To blame Bush and turn a blind eye to scoundrels such as Barney Frank and Chris Dodds is naive and foolish. At some point the piper is going to have to be paid in so far as Social Security is concerned. The ignorant will blame those in the White House on that day, but the fact is, we've seen decades of politicians who did not have the courage to try to address the problem. Like you I care about the future for my family. I want what's best for my four kids who have been in the work force taking care of their own health care insurance from the day that they got out of college. They'll have a tough enough time taking care of their families without having to support a government that pisses away hundreds of billions at a time on worthless social programs or green energy bankruptcies.
Obviously I empathize with the misfortune you endured in 2001 Gipper. Lost my biggest clients too....in the process of losing my job as well. Detroit has not been for the faint of heart in recent years that's for sure. The difference I think is that I still have a 14 year old in the house and with all of the financial upheaval of late I am a long long way from retirement and anyone that threatens my middle class status threatens my family indirectly and directly as well as my oldest son is now expecting a child with his wife and they are just in their mid twenties and have a long way to go to escape those who would seek to penalize or take advantage of the middle class. You can see I have no room to be philosophical or accept rhetoric that disguises hidden agendas as gospel.