David Simon Explains Why So Many Jaws Dropped When Mitt Romney Said He Had Never Paid Less Than A 13

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David Simon Explains Why So Many Jaws Dropped When Mitt Romney Said He Had Never Paid Less Than A 13% Tax Rate

by Henry Blodget at Business Insider

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/david-simon-mitt-romney-tax-rate-2012-8#ixzz23xI7SUrR

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But one other important philosophical difference between Americans is that they fall into two basic camps:

Those who believe that their success or failure is due entirely to their own personal efforts (or lack thereof), and

Those who believe that their success or failure is due not just to their own efforts but also to the economic, legal, and civic environment in which all Americans are fortunate enough to live

I would respectfully suggest that there is a right answer to this one.


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[enough]

1. Good quote from David Simon in the article:

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Can we stand back and pause a short minute to take in the spectacle of a man who wants to be President of The United States, who wants us to seriously regard him as a paragon of the American civic ideal, declaiming proudly and in public that he has paid his taxes at a third of the rate normally associated with gentlemen of his economic benefit?...

Thirteen percent. The last time I paid taxes at that rate, I believe I might still have been in college. If not, it was my first couple years as a newspaper reporter. Since then, the paychecks have been just fine, thanks, and I don’t see any reason not to pay at the rate appropriate to my earnings, given that I’m writing the check to the same government that provided the economic environment that allowed for such incomes.

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Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/david-simon-mitt-romney-tax-rate-2012-8#ixzz23zb28qLj

[Major Hogwash]

2. Yeah, Romney said that like he was bragging about it.

But, it isn't going to matter how much he said he has paid in the past if he can't back it uo by releasing his federal income tax returns.

So, the ball is squarely back in Romney's court . . he should put up or shut up.

[salin]

3. on his fiasco... er... trip to Europe he said he wouldn't be

qualified to run for president if he paid an more in taxes than he absolutely had to (that is - it is his patriotic duty to shelter as much of his money from the government as possible.)