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[QUOTE=waterdog101;495617]releasing tax returns, can be dangerous for a rich politician. like former Republican President Nixon, have you ever read what a crook Nixon was, when he filed his taxes.The revelation that Nixon had paid less than $6,000 in federal income tax while earning more than $790,000 of aggregate income during 1970, 1971, and 1972 caused a public outcry[/QUOTE]
So, now we're talking about Nixon......
Yea, I have read how much of a crook he was.......but he was a choirboy compared to TODAY'S standards of being a crook.
Also, his taxes were amended and he eventually paid over 400k in taxes for those questionable years.. He also paid over 70k the year before and for years after.
Here is an interesting link about Nixon and his tax troubles: [url]http://www.taxhistory.org/thp/readings.nsf/cf7c9c870b600b9585256df80075b9dd/f8723e3606cd79ec85256ff6006f82c3?OpenDocument[/url]
BUT HEY, I guess being transparent and all you didn't want to share that.
Back to Romney.
Romney paid 3.4 million in taxes on 20 million in investment income in 2010. He also gave 3 million to charity.
Romney "expected" to pay over 3 million on 20 million this year. He also gave nearly 4 million to charity. His taxes for this year have not been released....but this is from statements he or is campaign have released.
I don't know why Romney doesn't release more.........personally I don't CARE.
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I agree... I could care less honestly... and don't get me wrong I'm not thrilled with Romney either but it seems like every election in the past decade has always been about the better of two evils. The fact is that politicans are all crooks in one way or another... and if you want to get really into it the political system is in so screwed up because of the party system itself. People really need to stop thinking of republican or democrate, liberal or conservative. Americans are so quick to allign themselves with a party that they forget about what is important to them! The main thing that is hurting this country is Americans have lost the ability to think for themselves... They simply allign them selves with a party and do whatever and believe whatever that party tells them two.
On the day he left office, arguably the greatest american that has ever stode on
"However [political parties] may now and then answer
popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent
engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to
subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of
government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to
unjust dominion."
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796
