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HappySqurriel on 06 August 2012
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spaceguy said:
HappySqurriel said:
Outside of tax fraud, why does a person's tax returns matter when they are running for office?

Calling out Romney to release more than the required number of tax returns isn't different from conservatives who are calling out Obama for not releasing his college transcripts; and both are substantially more pointless than calling out Obama for not releasing his birth certificate.



Showing his tax's would show how uneven the tax code is. The tax's are made hard so only the rich can achieve the benefits. Also tax's show how much you support your country. If you hide money around the world and don't want to pay in. Thats like saying, F-ck the roads, the bridge's, the people, teachers, cops, firefighters ect. You get it. I pay in and am happy I got protection and good sewer system, Good drinking water. You know this sh-t kinda matters.

So yes every single president has released tax's. This is why. We want to see who we are electing. I do, I wanted to see obama's too. I wanted see every presidents tax's and that well stay the same. If you just want to put your head in the sand thats cool but us that actually want to know who is running our country. I will stop there.

This is what I don't get, You people who don't care. Dude if we didn't have these things our ecconomy would be sh-t and only a few would make it. So we must up keep it. IT'S NOT FREE!!! ITS NOT WELFARE. PAY FOR IT.

Every rational person will do everything within their power to pay as little tax as possible ... What Romney paid in taxes under rules he didn't create is irrelevant to whether he would be a good president or not; it only demonstrates whether he was intelligent and rational enough to take advantage of the rules.

The tax code is to complicated and could be simplified to:

Tax rates are as follows:

  • 0% tax on first $25,000 a person earns
  • 25% on each additional dollar

Of course, that is one of those "radical" conservative ideas that only benefits the rich ...