How do these guys not get it? I know they are thick on purpose with all topics in the name of political expediency. But this is taxes, their number one most important position always and forever. This is the single position that they have been required by the powerful of their party to swear a pledge outside the one they took to protect and defend the Constitution. To gaffe like Biden, this is a big fucking deal.
Mitt released one year of taxes calling it two. An estimate isn't the final return which I doubt we'll see or it'll be buried in the final days of the election. The one year he did release shows a paid rate of 13%. As reported in the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal, Paul Ryan released two years of his taxes showing paid rates of 15.9% in 2010 on $215,417 and 20% in 2011 on $323,416. Despite being an impressive raise for Paul Ryan, it is also a doorman's tip when compared to Mitt Romney's income. We can't look up what Romney made in 2011 for he hasn't released the information, but is is estimated at $3.2 million.
Why does Paul Ryan pay more in taxes than Mitt Romney? Shouldn't the rich pay more than the poor because the poor are disproportionately affected by expenditures. We never get a straight answer to this direct question. I don't know that I have ever heard the media ask this direct question. If you say "yes", then you are a class warrior, a Robin Hood, a redistributionist, a communist. If you say "no", then you see the importance of a tax break for your dancing horse over Head Start programs. It's all ugly.
P.S. - By the amount of money these guys earned, they are considered job-creators. I mean, they aren't considered job-creators by me because I realize that is just a BS marketing term put in the filed by Frank Luntz. The problem is that people believe it. The "low information" voter who drowns in Fox News daily believes in the sainthood of the business man. With that, another question: how many jobs did they create in 2010 and 2011?
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