Tim Pawlenty Is Pretty Sure Bank Of America's Taxes Are Too Damn High ... They Are Zero, Actually

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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Tim Pawlenty Is Pretty Sure Bank Of America's Taxes Are Too Damn High (They Are "Zero," Actually)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/03/tim-pawlenty-bank-of-america_n_830827.html



I still have fond memories of the 2008 campaign, where Senator John McCain and his sometime-surrogate business super-genius Carly Fiorina would often opine that the corporate tax rates were too damn high. Those two vastly prefer the way they did business in Ireland, where the same tax rates are much lower.

Left out of the discussion was the fact that Ireland actually captured more revenue because they lacked the gaping loopholes that allow certain corporations in the United States to pay nothing in taxes.

Take, for example, Bank of America: they posted great profits, they paid no taxes. And yet presidential aspirant Tim Pawlenty is still pretty sure they need some additional tax relief.

That's how he explained things, anyway, to Think Progress' Lee Fang in a surreal interview, where being confronted with the information that BofA paid nothing in taxes led him to continually call for the lowering of the corporate tax rate.

[inademv]

1. Just another reason

that his chances of winning 2012 are about as good as Palin's.

[Zoeisright]

2. I hate that cross-eyed fucker.

He's about the slimiest little murderer in the bunch.

[MedicalAdmin]

3. While I'm glad that he's out of MN.

I shudder to think that he is considered a solid candidate for the RW. And he does present well and he does talk the talk.

Ahd yah - he's a slimy little dickweed.

[emulatorloo]

5. Happily he has the charisma of a roll of paper towel

Which is why the Brawny Man makeover works so well for him.

[MedicalAdmin]

7. I've met him while lobbying at the state capital.

He's an idiot. Part of the same "class" of legislators as Bachmann.

Just for fun here's a website that celebrates all things stupid about Bachmann. http://www.dumpbachmann.com/

[emulatorloo]

4. Yet the media claims he is a "moderate" Republican

He's as teabaggy as they come.

[SouthernLiberal]

6. Notice his word choices

He wants to 'reduce' tax rates, and 'look at' loopholes. Somehow, I'm sure that he would be outraged by a suggestion that we should 'eliminate' loopholes and 'look at' tax rates.

Words matter!

[sulphurdunn]

8. Robopolitico

Questions merely serve as springboards for talking points.

[vicarofrevelwood]

9. Shill!

[LinkUP]

10. Notice the excessive Eye blinking?

I heard that that can be a body-language indicatior that someone is nervous or lying, or both, Never really noticed anyone doing it before though, untill just then, guys gotta try to cover his bases a little better or something