The opposition book on Rmoney must be 8 inches thick. This is why McCain didn't choose him as Veep, one of the many reasons. As one conservative person noted in a comment thread I saw somewhere -- but who WERE we supposed to nominate? and proceeded to list -- Bachmann, Gingrich, Santorum. Pawlenty or Huntsman must have dropped out by the time the Republican caucuses met in their state.
Also, Rmoney apparently still hasn't gone back and "calculated" his rate of taxes for those years.
http://www.cnn.com/2012/08/08/opinion/canellos-kleinbard-romney-taxes/index.html excerpt:
A key troubling public manifestation of Romney's apparent insensitivity to tax obligations is his role in Marriott International's abusive tax shelter activity, as previously reported by Jesse Drucker in Bloomberg.
Edward D. Kleinbard
Edward D. Kleinbard
Romney has had a close, long-standing, personal and business connection with Marriott International and its founders. He served as a member of the Marriott board of directors for many years. From 1993 to 1998, Romney was the head of the audit committee of the Marriott board.
During that period, Marriott engaged in a series of complex and high-profile maneuvers, including "Son of Boss," a notoriously abusive prepackaged tax shelter that investment banks and accounting firms marketed to corporations such as Marriott. In this respect, Marriott was in the vanguard of a then-emerging corporate tax shelter bubble that substantially undermined the entire corporate tax system.
Son of Boss and its related shelters represented perhaps the largest tax avoidance scheme in history, costing the U.S. many billions in lost corporate tax revenues. In response, the government initiated legal challenges that resulted in complete disallowance of the losses claimed by Marriott and other corporations.
In addition, the Son of Boss transaction was listed by the Internal Revenue Service as an abusive transaction, requiring specific disclosure and subject to heavy penalties. Statutory penalties were also made more stringent to deter future tax shelter activity. Finally, the government brought successful criminal prosecutions against a number of individuals involved in Son of Boss and related transactions not associated with Marriott, including principals at major law and accounting firms.
In his key role as chairman of the Marriott board's audit committee, Romney approved the firm's reporting of fictional tax losses exceeding $70 million generated by its Son of Boss transaction. His endorsement of this stratagem provides insight into Romney's professional ethics and attitude toward tax compliance obligations.
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lantern53says...Isn't it time for Obama to come clean regarding how he got into Columbia, his grades, his medical records, Fast and Furious.
Anyway, when you give your money to the US gov't, they do such a good job watching over it...hell, they might even give it to a fictional solar energy company, like Solyndra, or a number of others.
Let's all come clean...
StormsingerYou're more than welcome to vote for a tax cheat to be your new overlord if you admire that sort of thing...but don't fool yourself that you'll get any credit from him for doing so. You'll get fucked just like the rest of us, and he won't be supplying the lube either.
A10anisOff topic, but I', more worried about the possibility of having a mormon at the helm. And before people say; "his religion has nothing to do with his politics." That is being scarily naive.
Porksandwichsays...He just comes across as a really dishonest guy who thinks shrugging and laughing off questions makes him look better.
And I won't say Obama can do a better job. But some expectation of honesty and serious consideration of questions seems appropriate, and Rmoney doesn't do this. He changes his tactic, the subject, or shrugs and laughs. He says what he thinks you want to hear when he can, and ignores it otherwise.
bareboards2Only to the extent he is socially conservative do I worry. But W was, too. Most Reps play to that base.
My brother is a Mormon. The thing we really have to worry about is the rate at which they procreate. The only people having lots of children are conservative religious types -- Roman Catholic, Mormons and Muslims.
>> ^A10anis:
Off topic, but I', more worried about the possibility of having a mormon at the helm. And before people say; "his religion has nothing to do with his politics." That is being scarily naive.
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