Taking time out from insulting the rest of humanity who are not named “Romney”, Mitt “Mitt” Romney was all, “No way, José ….and not the José I fired because I’m running for President, for Pete’s sake” about releasing any more of his tax returns that could possibly show investment income coming from, say, cat brothels or showing that maybe he has more secret overseas accounts with names like Stolen Nazi Gold LLC or Dancing Horse Sperm Futures OPEC. I mean, anything could be in those tax returns so you should feel free to speculate wildly.
I know I am.
But here is what Mitt’s people had to say today while all the time realizing that they will not hear the end of this from reporters who are going to annoy the shit out of them about this from now until like two days before election day when Mitt will say, “Well, we’ll see…” just like your parents used to tell you when you asked for a pony – that you still haven’t received – because your parents were just big fat liars who wouldn’t deal with you honestly and now when you visit them at their adult care facility and they ask if you’ll come again next week, you say “Well, we’ll see …” and then trail off because… revenge.
Oh yeah, here is Mitt saying “Bite me, poors and blahs. Ha Ha Ha. Money rulz!.”:
Mitt Romney’s campaign said Monday they would not release any more of the candidate’s personal income tax information, despite an acknowledgement from Romney that he had been audited in the past.
“Mitt Romney has paid his taxes in full compliance with U.S. Law, and he has paid 100 percent of what he has owed,” Romney spokesman Ryan Williams wrote.
He continued, “As has previously been reported, in 2011, the Romneys will pay more than $3.2 million in taxes on $20.9 million in mostly investment income and will have donated more than $4 million to charity. In 2010, The Romneys paid more than $3 million in taxes on $21.6 million in mostly investment income and donated nearly $3 million to charity.”
Romney has disclosed his income tax returns from 2010, and released an estimate of his 2011 tax information in April. He has vowed to release 2011′s full return one it’s completed by his accountant.
On an unrelated note, there are probably no exceedingly profitable white baby breeding farms hidden in South America that sell matched sets of blonde-haired blue-eyed children to future Supreme Court justices… so please forget I even mentioned it in conjunction with Mitt Romney’s Highly-Secretive No-Peeking, You Big Loser tax returns and his unexplained hundreds of millions of dollars hidden all over the world.
The end.





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“Mitt Romney has paid his taxes in full compliance with U.S. Law, and he has paid 100 percent of what he
has owedcan’t get out of paying,” Romney spokesman Ryan Williams wrote.Fixed.
It is such a shame that poor Chief Justice John Roberts’ facts get brought out because Mitt Romney won’t release his tax returns.
But, we do have to remember what happened when he last released a bunch of returns.
Yep, 2008 in his quest for Veep and then Sarah Palin was selected over him.
The controversy rages through yesterday over that fact.
Finally, we will never know if/that his $100 Million IRA is really a ROTH IRA, earning money tax free for the rest of his life and his wife’s life.
Well, would he do that?, of course!
“$3.2 million in taxes on $20.9 million in mostly investment income and will have donated more than $4 million to charity. In 2010, The Romneys paid more than $3 million in taxes on $21.6 million in mostly investment income and donated nearly $3 million to charity.””
Chuy. When I received a 6figure settlement I was forced to pay HALF OF IT in taxes – because it was designated as ‘back pay’ rather than ‘investment income’. That’s right. ONE HALF went to taxes.
I think that’s more the reality. Someone was speculating the other day (which, along with $3.50 *might* buy ya a cuppa coffee somewhere) that MittBot doesn’t want to release his earlier tax forms bc they’re too complicated to “fix,” as in: hide where all the money’s been laundered.
We all know that the RMoney’s have managed to shift a TON of money off-shore. They keep saying it’s all “legal.” Possibly but doubtful.
Plus: what is Bishop MittBot hiding from the LDS?? That might be the bigger question. Has Bishop MittBot truly tithed his full 10%??? Doubtful.
Reminds me of the very arrogant and senseless comment that no one/woman can be too rich or too thin….Mitt has certainly proved how wrong that nugget of wisdom has been.
Suck It, You People
Well, in all fairness, and as I’ve noted elsewhere today, it ain’t gonna suck itself.
You are barking up the wrong tree. I’m almost certain Mitt refuses to release his tax returns because a close examination would reveal that he lost a boatload of money – something upwards of $50 million dollars – in the big Bush Crash of 2008-09. Thing about the effect that such knowledge would have on his main justification for the presidency, and think about how much it would cost him in credibility with the Republican base if such a fact got out (or even began to be energetically spread as a rumor). I’m just sayin’…
“Someone was speculating the other day . . . that MittBot doesn’t want to release his earlier tax forms bc they’re too complicated to “fix,” as in: hide where all the money’s been laundered.”
Most likely. But why should the rich hog all the really good tax loopholes? The thoughts of my piddly, “trashy” little 401(k) commingled with Mitt’s millions in the Caymans is the next best thing to a homeless person parking her shopping cart in the driveway of Mitt’s beach house, and setting up residence in a refrigerator carton on his beachfront.
Not likely to be a Roth because the ability to fund a Roth phases out as your income goes up and he’s way, way over the limit. There was a provision for 2010 where you could convert your regular IRA to a Roth regardless of your income level and pay the taxes in 2011 and 2012. But nothing like that showed up on his 2010 return.
What gets me is the claims that he donated these millions to “charity”. On his 2010 return it showed about half his donations went to the Mormon Church and the other half to a family foundation. The return for the foundation was also released. The foundation donates pretty much all of its income to the Mormon Church. So essentially 100% of his “charitable” donations to “charities” went straight to his church.
BTW, about that book jacket illustration…the wives are “wanton” but the husbands are just “playful”? Ye olde double standard at work there, methinks.
True, but MittBot has his very own “ROTH,” which are all his off-shore accounts. No doubt they are “making money,” for which no taxes are paid.
I think we could now just call off-shore accounts: 1% ROTHs!
ROTHs weren’t created for the 1%. They were created as a sop to the 99%.
Good catch…Playful: That’s what it’s called…in the old days, I guess.
First of all, did everyone read his 2010 Form 8606, Part II to really determine he did not make such a conversion? Easy to miss, as it is at the top of the page.
Second, there has been a veritable cadre of advisers ever since the ROTH IRA rules first came out, that have been showing how to get around the rules on wealthy people, making very substantial conversions much before 2010. The easiest method was/is to make the conversion, where all of the other income on page 1 has been sheltered away for the year.
Then, some of the mistaken advice is just hitting published Tax Court Cases as I write.
Something made the McCain campaign shy away from him; so I don’t think it was a 2010 conversion, if he does have his funds in a ROTH IRA.
In response also to onitgoes, I think the ROTH IRA rules have always worked best for rich children, not the 99%. Bill Roth had no empathy for the 99%, anyway.
Find out the sordid truth here: http://www.amazon.com/Double-Up-Dean-McCoy/dp/B002LUSL3A
There’s one left. It’s apparently a collectible.
Obama is a dud. But, Rmoney…? As CTuttle would say, *Gah*
Does Mittens earn an income from baptizing dead people?
15 % fucking percent, are you fucking kidding me you bloodsucker ???
Combined with our employer SS contribution, which we fund through our labor and what we directly contribute most of us pay 15 % before we are gouged for an additional 15 % minimum .
WILLARD is selfish, self centered, ratlike jackass I’d suppose.
Well, y’know, nobody likes him, not even the GOPers. He’s a fuckhead, slated to lose.
Slated to lose to Obama. *Gah*
I believe that qualifies for a ‘religious exemption’. Charity, after all, begins at home. Or in somebody’s home, anyway.
Faith, hope and charity, these three, the greatest of these is charity.
Corinthians 13:13
‘So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
OT-First Bill Keller, now Daily Caller Hacked. Kids, it is very wrong to do this sort of thing…even if it is easy.
Yes, love wins. But the only love I’ve known is the callous kind.
(I didn’t write that, either.)
Hope Solo is so gonna call out sfmikey@21 and GWPDA@22 on the twitter-twat….
Dean McCoy also wrote “Anything To Win.”
http://www.mysteryfile.com/DOwen/Bibliography.html
Eliminating Glass–Steagall / waging unnecessary wars / torturing / wiretapping have all been done ‘legally.’
Willard doesn’t want to pony up his tax returns and seems to not want to contribute his ‘fair share’.
This being the case, lets stop underwriting his tax payer sponsored protection as the ‘presumptive nominee’.
Yeah, it’s wrong… But they’re both such horses’ patoots…
I’ve heard that hope was the last thing that crawled out of Pandora’s Box.
Blessing or curse?
Yah – ‘cept I’m a 5’11 gurl with singularly curly hairz, haz a PhD and fought teh Army to teh point where they gave me a lot of MUNNIES. So there’s that. Also? Teh Greatest of these is Love.
New International Version has “faith, hope, love”, King James has “faith, hope, charity”.
I had to check, because Mormon settlers named a valley east of Carson Pass “Hope Valley” “as we began to have hope” (“Place Names of the Sierra Nevada”, Browning), with government surveyors in 1855 naming two nearby valleys “Faith” and “Charity”, after the verse (ibid).
Where can I get a copy of that book??????
Heh – I’m Revised Standard Edition and damned proud of it.
Why on earth does it take so long for the alleged “accountants” to finish Mitt’s return? Are these professionals, working 40 hour weeks, or do they have to be in the Caymans(SCUBA!), Bermuda (gambling!), or Switzerland (mountain climbing!) to count the money? Are they on an hourly rate?
In context, “love” makes more sense there than “charity”. However, winter-time skiers and snowshoers along the unplowed Blue Lakes Road would lose a frame of reference if we went with NIV or RS. “Hope”, “Faith”, … “Where Am I”?
Is there a New Internet Edition available?
New Internet
Map illustrating the issue (scroll up to CA-88 for Hope Valley)
Back in The Good Old Days of King James and his Version,charity and love were synonymous. (lat : caritas, see also: care, caring). It is only our later, degraded English that has narrowly defined it as giving to others.
$4,000,000 to charity? No. $4,000,000 to the LDS church. That aint charity.
So it sounds like we may be inching ever closer to the reason, at least one of them, for mittbot to refrain from releasing his tax info. Apparently, he was caught trying to swindle the gummit, got audited, and eventually paid his fair share.
This is gonna be fun all the way to November.
Why are we hounding poor Mr. Romney for his tax returns? We already know he is a successful businessman and will bring his economic expertise to leverage buy-out our nation and make money for his investors. We know what kind of person he is and how he lives, why do we need to bother the poor man for his tax returns?
What about more important information, like President Obama’s undergraduate transcripts?
Collectible on Amazon and other booksellers refers to the condition of the book, not its importance.