What if Obama refused to release his tax returns?

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  1. LSUsupaFan

    LSUsupaFan Founding Member

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    That isn't a point. Anyone could shelter money in blind trusts and offshore accounts, but there is a cost benefit to it. It is far etter for me to buy tax credits, but with another 100 grand in income tax shelters may make more sense.

    You have no rebuttal so you try to offend. Typical.

    Doubling down on it? Continuing to demonstrates the envy and loathing of the sucessful and fortunate that is so typical of the left.


    The smokescreen is that the personal finances of a guy running for office are indicative of something.
     
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  2. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    lets pretend for the sake of argument that romneys policy on say medicare, or trade, would benefit more people than obama. how many people would the policy have to benefit before you ceased to care about issues like tax returns and birth certificates? if that number is not infinite, then how many people living under worse policy is your obsession with irrelevant bullshit worth?

    is not the goal of governance to maximize good for the country? what is the relevance of the tax returns? if it is indicative of personal flaws, then why does red care? he loves clinton and that would prove tat personal flaws are not relevant.
     
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  3. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Repeating your absurdities does not reinforce them, it only draws attention to lack of an argument.

    Just because you can't see or care about something does not mean that nobody can.
     
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  4. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    red, lets assume that romney is nt a personaly trustworth and he cheats on his taxes. did bill clinton not cheat as well? do you believe that in the case of clinton the policies he favored were beneficial for the country? perhaps even more important than the oppositions political shots fired at him over his personal failings?

    also it isnt as if obama is some sort of beacon of honesty. this is a guy who recently claimed he changed his mind about gay marriage. course you did, fuckface. god changed his mind and told you gays are ok.
     
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    Where are you able to buy credits and are they backed by any contingent liability. I've not heard of anyone being able to do this in a way to sell the credits free and clear. How much do you pay for them?
     
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  6. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Look D'Artagnan, there are many issues that I don't give a hairy rat's ass about. But it's an election year and we are both smart enough to know tax returns are voter issues. So obviously I'm shining a spotlight on anything that reveals Romney weaknesses, just as you are trying to suppress the same.

    Overseas tax havens are associated in the public mind with someone intending to maximize good for self rather than for the country. They remind voters which candidate grew up in a white middle-class neighborhood just like them and which candidate was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and a trust fund in the Bahamas.

    I may care about whatever I wish. And it is relevant if I make it so.
     
    red55, Sep 24, 2012
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  7. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    i guess the way we differ is i never care what anyone thinks except me, and you always care what the perception is.
     
    martin, Sep 24, 2012
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  8. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Did you realize that this is a Presidential campaign, not Philosophy 101? Arrgh! There be partisans here, Matey!

    Clinton ain't in the race. God ain't in the race. This is Obama the everyman versus Elder Romney and the Mormon Multimillionaire Choir.
     
    red55, Sep 24, 2012
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  9. red55

    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Not exactly. You care about nobody but yourself. I care about myself, my tribe, my nation, and my species . . . in that order.
     
    red55, Sep 24, 2012
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  10. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    cant disagree with any of that
     
    martin, Sep 24, 2012
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