pretty funny....
By Deroy Murdock
September 24, 2012 4:00 A.M. No good deed goes undemagogued.
Republican nominee Mitt Romney on Friday released his 2011 tax return. Democrats instantly hammered him for doing exactly what they have demanded of the rich throughout their dirty class war.
Romney is mean, cold-hearted, uncaring, and incapable of connecting with his fellow man — or so Democrats insist. And yet Romney and his wife earned $13,696,951 in 2011, paid $1,935,708 in taxes, and donated $4,020,772 to charity. The Romneys’ donations equaled 208 percent of what they paid in taxes. The Romneys gave away 29.4 percent of what they made last year. This goes beyond tithing, the Biblical appeal to render onto others one tenth of what one reaps. This tops a 25 percent gratuity — considered a genuine example of generosity. The Romneys handed out nearly one third of their winnings in 2011.
How does this compare with Romney’s opponents for the White House?
The President and Mrs. Barack Obama made $789,674 last year, placing them deep within the dreaded “1 percent” — as luck would have it. (That notorious threshold applies to tax returns that report at least $343,927.) They gave $172,130 to charity, or 21.8 percent of their income.
And what about Vice President Joe “Back in Chains” Biden? He and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, scored $379,035 in 2011. These 1 percenters gave away $5,540 — a whopping 1.5 percent of their income. As parsimonious as this seems, this actually is an improvement for the bleeding-heart Bidens. As Politico’s Josh Gerstein noted Friday, “When the Obama campaign released past tax returns for Biden in 2008, it was revealed that the Bidens donated just $3,690 to charity over 10 years — an average of $369 a year.”
So, confronted with this evidence that Romney’s heart might not be made of dry ice after all, Democrats paused and heartily applauded his philanthropy.
And then I woke up.
?Heads, I Win; Tails, You Lose? - National Review Online
what I find hilariousl is that the people who cackle the most about Romney and his taxes are the same people that have long overstayed their usefulness in the House and Senate, how long has Harry Reid been there???, what has he really accomplished??? these are the same people that have crafted much of the tax policy over the countless years and many other policies that they either bitch about or try to prop up depending on the advantage that they feel it provides them.....Romney has never been shown to have done anything wrong regarding his taxes or anything else, they just "imply" the he must be doing something wrong in much the same way that Spence is now implying racism out of desperation, frustation and who knows...maybe intoxication ...
"racist, tax-dodging babies"
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