Hey, Media, a $75K Mechanic Pays a Lower Tax Rate Than Romney

Townhall.com ^ | September 27, 2012 | Larry Elder

[muawiyah]

Funny, my average rate has always been higher than what Mitt claims ~ and he made an awful lot more money than me.

Just give me his rate and no jive talk ~ a lower rate is a lower rate, capice? He can pay the same rate.

[muawiyah]

Funny, my average rate has always been higher than what Mitt claims ~ and he made an awful lot more money than me.

Just give me his rate and no jive talk ~ a lower rate is a lower rate, capice? He can pay the same rate.

[CMAC51]

Try $250,000 ~ normal exemptions and deductions for a family of 4.

That was not the topic under discussion. If you want to go down that rathole, then start with the full facts. Romney paid 14.1% in taxes. He deducted 2 million in charitable contributions, other wise his rate would have been 19.6%. As a side note he made an additional 2 million in charitable contributions for which he did not claim a deduction. Between income taxes and charitable contributions, he paid 43% of his income. Now give me the comparable number for $250,000 ~ normal exemptions and deductions for a family of 4.

[musicman]

[muawiyah]

Charitable contributions are not taxes.

[muawiyah]

The amount sent in by an individual is palpable, but REAL MONEY starts after many billions of dollars!

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Just give me his rate and no jive talk ~ a lower rate is a lower rate, capice?

How about this: You pay his tax bill. Perhaps you can trade with him. He paid in millions last year alone, how much have you contributed to supporting the government?

If you want to eliminate the "jive talk" perhaps you should quit posting. A lower rate is indeed a lower rate. a higher tax bill is also a higher tax bill. Tell you what, I'll give you triple whatever your tax rate is (20%, 30% ??) in cash, if you will give me what Mitt paid in real dollars in cash. Since Mitt was skating in your opinion, that's fair, right?

The problem here is that I'll never change your mind. You constantly show up bashing Mitt every chance you get. No one will ever be able to present a logical case that makes you change your mind, mainly because you didn't use logic to form your opinion in the first place.

Mitt paid over $3M in taxes in 2010. A year has 8760 hours. That means Mitt paid over $342 per hour to the government. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. what a deadbeat /sarc

[muawiyah]

Just give me the money and I'll pay everything he paid.

glad we got that out of the way.

[muawiyah]

BTW, it’s too easy to bash Mitt and he should do something about that.

[dragnet2]

I have an idea. Lets lower taxes for all.

Start by dramatically reducing the size of government, eliminate tens of hundreds of thousands of government employees at all levels, reduced those lottery style government employee pensions of those already retired by 35 percent.

Eliminate dozens of bloated government programs costing hundreds of billions, eliminated government unions....etc..

This isn't complex.

[CMAC51]

Charitable contributions are not taxes.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Just give me the money and I'll pay everything he paid.

You are either a liar or too dense to understand the offer. Perhaps both...

[muawiyah]

You could probably eliminate most local governments. Just hire on a couple of dozen deputy sheriff's and buy them some RPGs and light machine pistols, and there you have all you'd need ~ plus a good barret law so your sewer system would work ~ don't want to give up the sewers Fur Shur.

What you say?

[muawiyah]

You said: "Between income taxes and charitable contributions, he paid 43% of his income" which was an obvious attempt by you to slide past his tax rate into some other number. Just give me the rate on the income ~ and the money ~ and that's all it takes.

[muawiyah]

Regarding your question of how much have I contributed to government, it's probably pret'near a trillion bucks over 40 years ~ that's an amount in salaries equivalent to the number of employees USPS didn't need to hire on account of a device I came up with and began the use of that reduced the costs of moving/processing mail.

And you?

[CMAC51]

The original post was “Hey, Media, a $75K Mechanic Pays a Lower Tax Rate Than Romney” becasue that is what the media wa trying to misrepresent. The author then presented the imformation to validate the claim. You didn’t like that result, so you tried to change the premise to something else as if that is more meaningful. I called you on the bait and switch. If you are going to change the argument and paraamaters, then all of the meaningful paramenters are relavent.

[muawiyah]

Just like fixing a poll.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

Regarding your question of how much have I contributed to government, it's probably pret'near a trillion bucks over 40 years ~ that's an amount in salaries equivalent to the number of employees USPS didn't need to hire on account of a device I came up with and began the use of that reduced the costs of moving/processing mail.

I see, you can't win the argument so you change the subject. Typical

By your NEW standard, how much did Romney contribute? BTW, how pray tell do you calculate your trillion in savings? Hard numbers please.

[BlueMondaySkipper]

I called you on the bait and switch

Ding!! Ding!! Ding!! we have a winner. I'm done with that troll.

[muawiyah]

Doufous, you changed the subject by asking what I'd ever done for the government.

So I told you.

Now, 'splain why you don't want folks to get a tax cut.

Then we can laugh and laugh and laugh. I do believe Romney already promised that ~ Fur Shur, Obamugabe didn't ~ but you probably know that.