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grahamhgreen

(15,741 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 02:43 PM Jan 2012

Romney Paid Less in Taxes Than I Tip My Waiters!

Romney paid 14%. That's what I tip when I get poor service!

For good service I tip 20%. Great service is 25%. And I've even tipped over 100% under very special circumstances.

According to Zagat the US average tip is 19.2%. And that's just for serving our tables!

That's not for providing us with national defense, police and firefighters, roads and bridges, food for the hungry, and medical aid for the indigent, and a system which allowed him to thrive.

I don't want to say he's an ungrateful SOB, but if my waiter made be a quarter of a billion dollars, I'm sure I could dig deep and find more than 14%!

That is all.

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Romney Paid Less in Taxes Than I Tip My Waiters! (Original Post) grahamhgreen Jan 2012 OP
Good point JohnnyRingo Jan 2012 #1
These repugs are smart enough to make obscene amts of money buy not smart enough to keep their SammyWinstonJack Jan 2012 #2
Something to think about.. aptal Jan 2012 #3
I think his 250 million stash grahamhgreen Jan 2012 #4

JohnnyRingo

(18,624 posts)
1. Good point
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 02:59 PM
Jan 2012

And when we tip good service we don't complain that they feel it's an entitlement or demand a drug test to prove they're spending "our money" wisely.

The right's contemt for the working class knows no bounds.

SammyWinstonJack

(44,130 posts)
2. These repugs are smart enough to make obscene amts of money buy not smart enough to keep their
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 03:28 PM
Jan 2012

greedy pie hole$ shut.

Running their mouth off about how they are Taxed Enough Already, when clearly they are not, only calls attention to just how little they pay.


One would think they wouldn't want that info on display for the 99%ers to find out that they pay more in taxes then the one-percenters.


Bitching about the 36% tax rate, finding ways around it and still demanding a tax cut.


Just shut and pay your paltry 14% or whatever amount, already. Morans.

aptal

(304 posts)
3. Something to think about..
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 03:31 PM
Jan 2012

We don't have to tip our waiters anything...

If it were required and you received shitty services would you have something to say then?

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