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Mitt’s Income vs. Your Income
Slate ^ | Jan. 24, 2012 | Dan Check

Posted on 01/24/2012 9:00:37 PM PST by Daffynition

Mitt Romney released his 2010 tax return on Monday. His total income for the year was listed as $21.6 million, more than one-half of which came from capital gains. How does that stack up against your income? Enter your annual income below to find out how long it would have taken Mitt Romney to earn the same amount of money.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Humor
KEYWORDS: classism; classwarfare
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*Did the math, and it would take me over 100 years just to earn the amount he paid in taxes...*

1 posted on 01/24/2012 9:00:42 PM PST by Daffynition
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Doesn't Bill Gates fund Stale? Why not compare Mitt's income to Bill Gates' income?
2 posted on 01/24/2012 9:02:29 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Daffynition
The top candidates' 2010 income tax returns....


3 posted on 01/24/2012 9:03:00 PM PST by Daffynition (When I was a chiId was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it)
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What’s with this Socialist garbage from Slate?

So what if Romney has millions of dollars

Becoming rich is not evil.

Millionaires and billionaires are not evil.

Posts like this are more appropriate for MoveOn, The Daily Kos and Slate.

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4 posted on 01/24/2012 9:06:06 PM PST by bobk333
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To: Daffynition

I’m not jealous of what someone else earns.
That Slate article is despicable! :-(

(But Romney’s still an ass.)


5 posted on 01/24/2012 9:07:58 PM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Daffynition

I know people here hate Romney, but this crap about criticizing him for making money is outrageous. I just heard that phoney lying bastard Brian Williams going on and on to Romney about won’t people hate him bc he makes an “astounding” amount of money.

Ever hear them ask a Kennedy that? Clintons? I will criticize Romney bc he should have spit it back in Williams’ face.


6 posted on 01/24/2012 9:08:22 PM PST by Williams (Honey Badger Don't Care)
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To: Paleo Conservative

7 posted on 01/24/2012 9:08:47 PM PST by Daffynition (When I was a chiId was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it)
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To: Daffynition

Smells like socialist class warfare bs to me.


8 posted on 01/24/2012 9:09:34 PM PST by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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How absurd. Any of us would pay th least amount in the same circumstances.

we can trash mittens, bit this is ridiculous


9 posted on 01/24/2012 9:10:29 PM PST by GlockThe Vote (The Obama Adminstration: 2nd wave of attacks on America after 9/11)
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To: Daffynition

Are you a socialist?


10 posted on 01/24/2012 9:13:14 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: bobk333

Transferring millions of dollars to fund what Mormonism does is evil for sure.

I wonder how much of his donations went to them, all of them.


11 posted on 01/24/2012 9:13:39 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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*Did the math, and it would take me over 100 years just to earn the amount he paid in taxes...*

That's the point that should be made. When someone PAYS more in taxes than I EARN, I have no right to complain.

12 posted on 01/24/2012 9:13:56 PM PST by Razz Barry (Round'em up, send'em home.)
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To: Daffynition

Let me echo the “It isn’t evil to be successful” stance. Enough of this pinko redistributionist envy on FR.


13 posted on 01/24/2012 9:14:44 PM PST by risen_feenix
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To: Williams
>I will criticize Romney bc he should have spit it back in Williams’ face.<

The main reason I dislike Romney is that he doesn't show that he has a spine.

The Hussein voters....


14 posted on 01/24/2012 9:17:28 PM PST by Daffynition (When I was a chiId was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it)
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I really don’t care how much someone makes. I live a comfortable life and put in the effort I felt was necessary to get me and Mrs. TaMoDee to that point. She also put in an effort to get us to that point.


15 posted on 01/24/2012 9:17:59 PM PST by TaMoDee
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I know which tax accountant I’d want to use!


16 posted on 01/24/2012 9:18:15 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Daffynition

Good post. Daffynition. Shows how out of touch some are.

$22,000,000.00. Offshore accounts. $100,000,000.00 trust funds for his son—and this guy is the candidate that the GOP Establishment thinks is best suited to run in 2012 America? Against the Chicago machine that feeds on class warfare?

Lord, beam me up.


17 posted on 01/24/2012 9:19:22 PM PST by VinL (It is better to suffer every wrong, than to consent to wrong.)
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To: Williams
It is my opinion the whole ‘occupy wall street’ performance was set in motion to ‘mock’, ‘jeer’, and ‘sneer’ Romney. The Jon Stewart media is no longer an independent function but the mouth of liberalism. BUT Romney has been a miserable flop in standing up for himself, and he exposes his weakness by equating the accumulation of ‘private’ wealth with what ‘government’ Obama did in bailing out the auto industry. So we are left with a ‘cash for clunkers’ campaign out of Romney.

Whomever is advising Romney or maybe it is how Romney really thinks he/his campaign are acting like there is ‘shame’ and need for hiding that Romney has been successful.

18 posted on 01/24/2012 9:20:18 PM PST by Just mythoughts (Luke 17:32 Remember Lot's wife.)
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You guys are all missing the point. It’s not what we think about mittens wallet, it’s how that looks to everyone else. There is no way he gets the evil 1% stink off. See ya mittens.


19 posted on 01/24/2012 9:22:15 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Daffynition

Slate launches the first big “me too” volley in Obama’s re-election class war. If Romney’s nominated he’ll be in the MSM’s crosshairs 24/7. The Left could not wish for a more ideal opponent to demonize.


20 posted on 01/24/2012 9:23:00 PM PST by Bernard Marx
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