Barack Obama, our next President

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Mitt Romney tried again on Thursday to shift the campaign conversation away from his refusal to disclose more of his tax returns, raising questions about what may be in them.
While Romney accused President Barack Obama of demonizing business success by hounding the Republican challenger over the issue, tax experts were speculating about what might be in Romney's undisclosed returns.
So far he has released only his 2010 return and a draft of his 2011 return. He has pledged to release the full 2011 return when it is ready. He has also made disclosures to election officials that shed some light on his personal finances.
Formerly governor of Massachusetts, Romney co-founded private-equity firm Bain Capital, a highly successful investment house, and is one of the wealthiest individuals ever to run for the White House.
Presidential candidates are not required to disclose their tax returns, but it has become common practice. Romney's father released 12 years of returns when he ran for president in 1968.
Obama, whom Romney presumably will challenge in November, has released returns back to 2000.
DID HE PAY LOW TAXES IN 2009?
Could it be that Romney paid very little in taxes in 2009 or earlier?
Romney's tax return information released in January showed he paid a 13.9-percent effective tax rate in 2010 and expected to pay a 15.4-percent effective rate on his 2011 income.
Those rates are far below the 35-percent top tax rate for wages, chiefly because Romney gets most of his income from investment gains, which are taxed at a rate of 15 percent.
The 2008 financial crisis hammered many wealthy investors. Some tax experts speculate the crisis may have generated large capital losses for Romney that, carried forward into 2009, might have sharply reduced his tax bill for that year.
Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul said on Thursday that there has been no year in which Romney paid zero taxes.
Romney might have had other types of income in 2009 and earlier that could not be offset by capital losses, other experts said.
"The number everyone is focused on is, of course, the effective tax rate," said University of Notre Dame accounting professor Brad Badertscher.
Obama reported paying effective tax rates of about 26 percent in 2010 and about 20.5 percent in 2011.

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In a recent interview with the Hoover Institution's Peter Robinson, Bush left little doubt that he prefers to observe the often-messy process.
"I've crawled out of the swamp. And, I'm not crawling back in!" Bush said. "I'm interested in politics. I'm a supporter of Mitt Romney. I hope he does well. But he can do well without me."
He added that he's trying to regain some anonymity "as best I can."
"I really don't want to be in the public eye anymore and feel a certain sense of liberation not being out there," Bush said in the interview.
Bush's father, former President George H.W. Bush, announced earlier this week that he plans to skip the convention for health reasons. That means Romney will accept his party's nomination without any former GOP presidents in the audience.
The elder Bush's spokesman, Jim McGrath, said it will be the first time since 1976, when Bush was director of the CIA and refrained from partisan activities, that he won't attend the Republican Party gathering.
Bush, 88, has a form of Parkinson's disease that afflicts his legs. He uses a wheelchair or motorized scooter.

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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Well you were wrong the first time, and will be wrong the second.

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carol wrote:

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98% of the black community support Obama. It isn't a big mystery why.

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brown eyes wrote:

A prominent Republican fundraiser has been arrested on numerous rape charges in Salt Lake City Utah. Gregory Nathan Peterson. He was listed as an event chair for a 2007 Mitt Romney campaign event held at the Romney's Utah home and has donated thousands of dollars to Romney's campaign. The charges stem from alledged attacks on four women between March 2011 and April 2012. Two of the alledged attacks occurred at the cabin where Peterson held fundraisers. Romney sure gets some nice campaign contributors.

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AmericanMan wrote:

<quoted text>53% of us voting Americans disagree with you. Your days of the Trickle Down to the peasant class is over. No more will America have a President that wants to give it all to the rich and let the middle class die.

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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Why do you keep whining about blacks? They also supported Bill Clinton. Your party is the party of white billionaires, you're just a water carrier, brought to the polls through social issues like abortion and gay marriage. They laugh at you.

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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Why do you keep whining about blacks? They also supported Bill Clinton. Your party is the party of white billionaires, you're just a water carrier, brought to the polls through social issues like abortion and gay marriage. They laugh at you.

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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Well you were wrong the first time, and will be wrong the second.

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AmericanMan wrote:

<quoted text>53% of us voting Americans disagree with you. Your days of the Trickle Down to the peasant class is over. No more will America have a President that wants to give it all to the rich and let the middle class die.

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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Why do you keep whining about blacks? They also supported Bill Clinton. Your party is the party of white billionaires, you're just a water carrier, brought to the polls through social issues like abortion and gay marriage. They laugh at you.

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JEB wrote:

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most people make up their statistics
I assume yours are scientific

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carol wrote:

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Some GOP senators complained that Democrats bypassed the normal committee process and quickly introduced the bill for election-year political purposes.(Election year gimmick is written all over it.)
Republicans also objected to the bill because Harry Reid blocked GOP amendments to the bill.
As one blogger pointed out, "A one time 20% deduction on the cost of moving jobs back from overseas doesn't help a whole lot. The only part of this bill that they want is to have additional taxes placed on companies that have overseas employees. The reason these companies went overseas in the first place is what has to be addressed."

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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Mormon?

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carol wrote:

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The most wealthy on Capital Hill are Democrats by a majority. They are also white.
I can't stand that the majority of blacks have forgotten who was on their side and have so willingly gone back on the Democrat plantation.

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Romney is in a bit of trouble with the right wing of his own party.
The list of prominent Republicans and conservatives urging Romney to put out more than the two years of tax returns he has promised is continuing to grow each day. If he simply hands over, say, five to 10 years of returns, they argue, Romney can end the controversy and focus his campaign on the nation’s economic woes to defeat President Barack Obama.
Over the last few days, a number of prominent Republicans and conservatives - including Haley Barbour, George Will and Bill Kristol - have called on Romney to quickly release years worth of his returns, and more stepped forward with the same message Tuesday.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) became the latest Republican to urge Romney to put an end to the tax returns flap and release more information. Paul told POLITICO on Tuesday he thinks it would help the presumptive GOP nominee “politically,” adding that “in the scheme of things politically, you know, it looks like releasing tax returns is what the people want.”
Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday joined in the debate and called for more transparency in the presidential race.
“I’m a big believer that no matter who you are, or what office you’re running for, you should be as transparent as you can be with your tax returns and other aspects of your life so that people have the appropriate ability to judge your background and what have you,” he told reporters in Austin, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Perry, who has released his tax returns dating back to 1992, added,“I think anyone running for office, if they get asked within reason to give people background about what they have been doing, including tax returns, should do that. That’s my deal on it.”

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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Why do you keep whining about blacks? They also supported Bill Clinton. Your party is the party of white billionaires, you're just a water carrier, brought to the polls through social issues like abortion and gay marriage. They laugh at you.

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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Wasn't aware he had Parkinsons and in wheelchair

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JEB wrote:

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Romney is in a bit of trouble with the right wing of his own party.
The list of prominent Republicans and conservatives urging Romney to put out more than the two years of tax returns he has promised is continuing to grow each day. If he simply hands over, say, five to 10 years of returns, they argue, Romney can end the controversy and focus his campaign on the nation’s economic woes to defeat President Barack Obama.
Over the last few days, a number of prominent Republicans and conservatives - including Haley Barbour, George Will and Bill Kristol - have called on Romney to quickly release years worth of his returns, and more stepped forward with the same message Tuesday.
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) became the latest Republican to urge Romney to put an end to the tax returns flap and release more information. Paul told POLITICO on Tuesday he thinks it would help the presumptive GOP nominee “politically,” adding that “in the scheme of things politically, you know, it looks like releasing tax returns is what the people want.”
Texas Gov. Rick Perry on Tuesday joined in the debate and called for more transparency in the presidential race.
“I’m a big believer that no matter who you are, or what office you’re running for, you should be as transparent as you can be with your tax returns and other aspects of your life so that people have the appropriate ability to judge your background and what have you,” he told reporters in Austin, according to the Houston Chronicle.
Perry, who has released his tax returns dating back to 1992, added,“I think anyone running for office, if they get asked within reason to give people background about what they have been doing, including tax returns, should do that. That’s my deal on it.”

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lily boca raton fl wrote:

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98% of billionaires support Romney, wonder why?