Romney Never Paid Less Than 13 Percent. Maybe. Probably. Who Knows?

Posted on August 16, 2012 at 4:45 pm by JM Ashby

Let’s listen to Mitt Romney assure America that he has never paid less than 13 percent in taxes.

The problem, Mitt, is that 13 percent is already significantly less than your average American pays. Americans whose incomes would literally fit in your pocket. The average American also does not have the luxury of donating significant portions of their income to charity. Claiming you do so doesn’t absolve you from the burdens of citizenship either.

While we’re on the subject, Mitt Romney’s charitable donations includes the 10 percent of his income he must tithe as required by the Mormon church.

And a word missing from Romney’s statement is “income.” He did not say he never paid less than 13 percent in “income taxes.” He can’t say that.

What Romney will not admit, and the reason he will not release his tax returns, is that he pays taxes on capital gains but not on income. And you don’t have to take my word for it. Romney said hes “unemployed too” during a campaign stop in Florida last summer.

The Ryan/Romney budget conveniently eliminates taxes on capital gains.

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  • gescove

    Who in their right mind believes even one word that pops out of this guy’s pie hole?

  • BenAu

    Tithing is not charity – it is given to God but used by the church (historically – letting the priests eat sacrificial food). No preacher or theologian would ever say that it was, not even Mormon ones. It’s not a membership fee or recompense for goods and/or services rendered either. It is yet another lie for the Romney’s to claim their tithes are “giving to charity”.

  • mrbrink

    What a fucking asshole.

    He’s the poster boy for everything wrong with America. Our joblessness, underemployment, wealth income inequality, wage stagnation, unequal pay for women, debt and deficits, corporate welfare, secrecy, lies, cheating, divisiveness. Dumb, stupid power.

    And he’s asking, “What do my finances have to do with the economy and jobs?”

    Motherfucker, you’re robbing us blind! You produce nothing of value to America and you clearly take more than your fair share and you’re still whining and complaining.

    When we resort to cannibalism, can we eat this motherfucker first?

    • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

      Ann Romney talked to NBC News re the tax issue. She could not disguise her complete contempt. In her own mind, she was talking to the equivalent of the “help”.

      http://video.msnbc.msn.com/rock-center/48667130

      • mrbrink

        I thought Mitt Romney’s work requirements for stay at home mom’s would have brought her some much needed dignity by now.

        • http://www.politicalruminations.com/ nicole

          ha! :)

          She really showed her true self in that interview. It was enlightening….

    • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

      Only with lots and lots of ketchup

      • muselet

        Not even then.

        –alopecia

        • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

          Yeah, you’re right, it’d taste too much like eating 100 dollar bills with ketchup on them.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1437468005 Elayne Griffin Baker

    Interestingly, I’m in PA and the local news is on, WHICH I NEVER WATCH. Here’s the story as reported: “Today Mitt Romney dropped a bombshell…he ONLY paid 13% taxes for the past 1o years.” I almost fell off my chair. Not the story I believe Mitt wanted reported…

  • http://drangedinaz.wordpress.com/ IrishGrrrl

    Further on the his point that he tithed to his Church….Seriously? First of all, that’s not entirely verifiable and you’re frigging required to pay that. Second, taxes go to help the entire country but tithing really only helps his church and the people that his church chooses to help, many of whom are not even in the U.S. Third, taxes don’t go to help churches proselytize but his tithing does (is connected with receipt all Mormon church “help”, similar to most Christian denominations). Fourth, Mormons make up less than 2% of the nations population….i.e., the rest of us aren’t Mormon and we could care 2 sh*ts for what you give to it since it not LIKE taxes and CAN’T substitute for taxes.