We're Doomed, He Hasn't a Clue

[Riot]

Originally Posted by dino

I have wanted a flat tax for years but we will never have one because we have too many leaches that don't want to pay any taxes and live off the middle class and rich.
If that bum Obama ever voted for a flat tax he would lose 3/4 of the people that voted for him because all of a sudden they would have to contribute something and that sure as hell would never happen.

LOL - a flat tax has been part of the progressive platform for years.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Riot

LOL - a flat tax has been part of the progressive platform for years.

neither party really embraces it, but it's more of a conservative platform than progressive. Dick Armey (dead republican) was the guy who tried to push it through congress.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

neither party really embraces it, but it's more of a conservative platform than progressive. Dick Armey (dead republican) was the guy who tried to push it through congress.

They switch back and forth. Jim DeMint fully supported and recommended Obamacare just a few years ago, recommending that Romney's healthcare plan be made national, it was "so good"

Today Romney announced he thinks that corporations are people. Jeebus, save us from these empty heads and give us back our democracy.

"Corporations are people, my friend" (which makes total sense, except for that dang Citizen's United supreme court ruling) - video with heckling, here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_924426.html

[Antitrust32]

I work for a corporation that is made up of over 8,000 americans.

Yes, corporations are people.

[Antitrust32]

"Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings my friend."

here's the actual quote instead of a cherry picked line. what doesnt make sense?

[Antitrust32]

If dems are going to hang on that paragraph to beat Romney, they have huge problems.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

"Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings my friend."

here's the actual quote instead of a cherry picked line. what doesnt make sense?

Sigh ... as I said, related to the Citzen's United ruling. Completely ****ing tone deaf to the Citizens United ruling. Especially as just this week it was discovered Romeny had received millions in donations from several shell corporations, corporations created only to donate to Romney under PAC rules, then dissolved. That's what hangs Romney, and why the hecklers were so angry.

Here, today, op-ed in Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politic...CdN/index.html

WASHINGTON --Two non-partisan campaign-finance watchdogs today filed additional complaints with the Federal Election Commission and US attorney general about contributions made by obscure companies to a political action committee supporting Mitt Romney.

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The Campaign Legal Center and Democracy 21 had lodged complaints last week about a $1 million contribution to the committee from a company called W Spann, whose owner was not listed on campaign or corporate records.

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The new complaints allege that $2 million worth of contributions from two other companies – Utah-based F8 LLC and Eli Publishing -- also may have violated federal campaign finance law. Their owners’ names also were not listed on campaign finance reports, and the compaints suggest they also may be shell companies used solely to make the contributions.

[joeydb]

Still no clue - still talking about doing more road work. Guess who pays for that? Taxpayers. It never ends with this guy.

[Clip-Clop]

Originally Posted by Riot

Sigh ... as I said, related to the Citzen's United ruling. Completely ****ing tone deaf to the Citizens United ruling. Especially as just this week it was discovered Romeny had received millions in donations from several shell corporations, corporations created only to donate to Romney under PAC rules, then dissolved. That's what hangs Romney, and why the hecklers were so angry.

Here, today, op-ed in Boston Globe:
http://www.boston.com/Boston/politic...CdN/index.html

Like naming the CEO of one of the worlds largest and most profitable companies to your personal team? The one company in the top 10 that pays zero taxes, coincidence?