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Secret Service Investigating Romney Tax Hack Claim
A federal investigation has been launched after hackers claimed to have stolen Mitt Romney’s tax returns. The hackers have given Romney until September 28th to pay $1 million in bitcoins or they say they will release the returns. From the article: "The claim was made in a post on the Pastebin site on Sunday that alleged that Romney's federal tax returns were taken from the offices of PriceWaterhouse Coopers in Frankin, Tenn., on August 25 by someone who snuck into the building and made copies of the document. The message author threatened to release the files publicly on September 28 and said copies of the files had been given to Democratic and Republican leaders in that county. Democrats have made Romney's refusal to release his tax returns a key point in their criticism that he is not in touch with working class voters."
Well said but I think if politicians need to release tax records then they all should. Mitt Romney pays less taxes (~15%) because his money was taxed when it was initially earned and now he's paying taxes on his investments so he's being taxed twice - a fact often omitted form reports.
Here is the scenario that most Libtards don't get.
Plumber goes into business, invests every extra penny into his business. Works hard, over the years, and slowly builds his business, hires new plumbers and so on. He barely makes a living over the years, and lives a sparse life in a modest neighborhood. Pays his taxes at 30%, plus all the employer/owner taxes on his business.
Forty years later, he decides to retire, and sell his business for 2 million dollars. Obama and the Dems call that "1%" because for that one year, his income was in the 1%. But not really. That 2 million over fourty years is really only worth 50K a year. But the Dems don't care, he is the "1%" they hate. He is evil, exploiter of the worker, and greedy.
You see the problem yet? Grand Proclamations of over generalized statements makes for great sloganeering. But, like most rose tinted views of the left, isn't really based on reality for everyone the toss in that generalization.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Actually, we don't know that at all. How do we know that he didn't have his grades strategically massaged to make a popular, exotic, up and coming black kid just a little more successful? Or that the rules were waived in his case for "life experience" or some similar rot? That's the thing: without the records, we're just taking people's word for it. That said, it doesn't matter in the slightest, unless there's some scandal that's been being buried for years. Which is why people wonder why so much effort is being made to keep these records private. Meanwhile, the Obama campaign is trying mightily to raise the same kinds of questions about Romney's tax returns. In both cases, there is only danger to the candidate if there is an obvious scandal buried in the documents, or something that can be spun as such. In neither case do we actually have a right to know the information, and in both cases the candidates are within their rights to maintain their privacy.
-- Two men say they're Jesus. One of them must be wrong. - Dire Straits