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Apparently to truly know if someone is acceptable for the very important job of Vice President it requires examining their tax returns for the past decade. From the Daily Beast:
As part of its vetting, the Romney campaign required at least some of the candidates on the short list—including the eventual winner of the GOP veepstakes, Ryan—to submit fully 10 years of tax returns, according to a knowledgeable source.
The requirement was consistent with the past practices of both Republican and Democratic campaigns. Indeed, in 2008, Mitt Romney turned over 23 years of taxes to John Mccain’s campaign when he was under consideration to be the Arizona senator’s running mate.
Romney felt he needed ten years of tax returns to pick a running mate, but he maintains that it is absurd for the American people to ask for more than two years of incomplete tax returns from a candidate for President.
By asking for ten years of tax returns the Romney campaign effectively admitted that what is in past tax returns could be relevant for selecting a candidate for higher office, even though Romney himself is still publicly saying two years is all the information anyone should need about him. If he honestly believes what is in past tax returns does matter, he wouldn’t have asked for them from his VP candidates.
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Do as I say, not as I do, says Hippo the Hypocrit.
And Ms Truthy says smartly, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”
Romney is unreal.
He’s a asshole. Plain and simple. A lying liar of a tax evader, draft dodger, corporatist raper and pillager. His wife Marie Antoinette too. Screw him and the horse he rode in on.
Rest of ya’ll, have a nice day.
You want to screw Rafalca?
Neeeiiighhh!
Say it ain’t so, Wiilllbuuurrrr….
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In Dante’s version of hell,
categories of sin are punished in different circles, with the depth of the circle (and placement within that circle) symbolic of the amount of punishment to be inflicted. Sinners placed in the upper circles of hell are given relatively minor punishments, while sinners in the depths of hell endure far greater torments. As the eighth of nine circles, Malebolge is one of the worst places in hell to be. In it, sinners guilty of “simple” fraud are punished (that is, fraud that is committed without particularly malicious intent, whereas Malicious or “compound” fraud — fraud that goes against bond of love, blood, honor, or the bond of hospitality — would be punished in the ninth circle). Sinners of this category include counterfeiters, hypocrites, grafters, seducers, sorcerers and simonists.
I object to the characterization of Ryan as a “winner.”
It’s because he likes to fire people.
Mr. Romney, you have asked us whether or not we are better off than we were four years ago. (The answer for me is, yes.)
But I would like to ask you the same question:
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
If so, please confirm by showing me your tax returns for the years in question.
Release the tax returns!