Mitt Romney
Legal Money Laundering and Legal Tax Evansion
Supposed business leader Mitt Romney may not be the money marvel and budgeting genius that his supporters make him out to me. After reading the LA Times today, it seems that he may have mastered one thing: knowing about government’s tax loopholes, and taking advantage of them. I own corporations myself, and there are many legimate ways to save on taxes. I only use the moral ones, though.
The LA Times article alleges the following:
But aides to the Republican presidential hopeful and former colleagues acknowledged that the tax-friendly jurisdictions helped attract billions of additional investment dollars to Romney’s former company, Bain Capital, and thus boosted profits for Romney and his partners.
Romney has based his White House bid, in part, on the skills he learned as co-founder and chief of Bain Capital, one of the nation’s most successful private equity groups. His campaign cites his record while governor of Massachusetts of closing state tax loopholes; his involvement with foreign tax havens had not previously come to light.
In the Cayman Islands, Romney was listed as a general partner and personally invested in BCIP Associates III Cayman, a private equity fund that is registered at a post office box on Grand Cayman Island and that indirectly buys equity in U.S. companies. The arrangement shields foreign investors from U.S. taxes they would pay for investing in U.S. companies.
So here is a man running for President, a man who campaigns on his supposed policy of closing tax loopholes, and that very man’s business profited from the very same loopholes he threatens to close for us middle class and poor business owners. Lovely. If I was to make a successful business, I wouldn’t do it by utilizing loopholes that would give me an uncompetitive government-sponsored advantage. Tax laws are supposed to be even (yeah, right), but in reality, they’re not. The powerful always have an advantage, so giving them congratulations on making a profitable business is not worthy of your time. Face it: the powerful can make money, and you and I can try, only to have it robbed through taxation and Federal Reserve inflationary policies.
Would you really vote for an individual who flip-flops not only about his moral views, years after he made policy that went against his new views, but also flip-flops on holding himself to the same standard that he will enforce for others who MUST obey the laws that he signs?
This guy has nothing going for him as President, and this issues is just the cherry on the topping of proof as to why. Glad to sling the mud at your, Mitt. We’ll include it on your resume for future offices that we’re hopeful you’ll not win.
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Supposed business leader Mitt Romney may not be the money marvel and budgeting genius that his supporters make him out to me. After reading the LA Times today, it seems that he may have mastered one thing: knowing about government’s tax loopholes, and taking advantage of them. I own corporations myself, and there are many legimate ways to save on taxes. I only use the moral ones, though.
The LA Times article alleges the following:
But aides to the Republican presidential hopeful and former colleagues acknowledged that the tax-friendly jurisdictions helped attract billions of additional investment dollars to Romney’s former company, Bain Capital, and thus boosted profits for Romney and his partners.
Romney has based his White House bid, in part, on the skills he learned as co-founder and chief of Bain Capital, one of the nation’s most successful private equity groups. His campaign cites his record while governor of Massachusetts of closing state tax loopholes; his involvement with foreign tax havens had not previously come to light.
In the Cayman Islands, Romney was listed as a general partner and personally invested in BCIP Associates III Cayman, a private equity fund that is registered at a post office box on Grand Cayman Island and that indirectly buys equity in U.S. companies. The arrangement shields foreign investors from U.S. taxes they would pay for investing in U.S. companies.
So here is a man running for President, a man who campaigns on his supposed policy of closing tax loopholes, and that very man’s business profited from the very same loopholes he threatens to close for us middle class and poor business owners. Lovely. If I was to make a successful business, I wouldn’t do it by utilizing loopholes that would give me an uncompetitive government-sponsored advantage. Tax laws are supposed to be even (yeah, right), but in reality, they’re not. The powerful always have an advantage, so giving them congratulations on making a profitable business is not worthy of your time. Face it: the powerful can make money, and you and I can try, only to have it robbed through taxation and Federal Reserve inflationary policies.
Would you really vote for an individual who flip-flops not only about his moral views, years after he made policy that went against his new views, but also flip-flops on holding himself to the same standard that he will enforce for others who MUST obey the laws that he signs?
This guy has nothing going for him as President, and this issues is just the cherry on the topping of proof as to why. Glad to sling the mud at your, Mitt. We’ll include it on your resume for future offices that we’re hopeful you’ll not win.
Pardons for Payment
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Slinging the Mud at Mike Huckabee is becoming easier than ordering a value meal at McDonald’s. Every day that passes, there’s new news on more terrible activities in the supposed pastor’s past. Make note not of the words of a Christian, but of their actions. Judge them not, but do remember that politicians that perform deeds contrary to their words do not change. Don’t give Huckabee the reward of Presidency, or even support, if the man has a past like he alledgely does.
Today’s Huckabee mud slinging covers one pardon out of 1000 that he gave, this one over a 4-time drunk driver. From the National Review:
The question is if there was there a connection between his wife Glenda Fields’s five-figure political donations and Huckabee’s action. On April 14, 2004, then-Gov. Huckabee commuted the sentence of Mr. Fields — then a four-time driving-while-intoxicated offender — granting him early release from prison. Fields, a resident of the western Arkansas town of Van Buren, was a habitual offender. He had already been convicted of DWIs in 1996, 1998, and 2000, but his 2001 felony-DWI conviction resulted in the maximum six-year prison sentence and a $5,000 fine.
The political contributions by the Fields family — large by Arkansas standards — went unreported at the time Huckabee granted Eugene Fields executive clemency. The size of the donations places the Fields family in the top tier of the state GOP’s donors, alongside Arkansas aristocracy like the scions of the Fords and Stephens families. Both Scott Ford, CEO of Alltel, and Warren Stephens, CEO of Stephens, Inc., gave the Arkansas Republican party $10,000 in 2003.
And this is a man who Christians admire? The enemies of faith know the words to say better than the protectors of it. I’m not surprised that many of my Christian friends admire Huckabee, since he was a pastor and a governor and proclaims God as his main supporter. Of course, I recall that Jesus was offered the role of political leader by the Enemy, and he declined it. I wouldn’t be so fast to proclaim that God supports me when the only Biblical relevancy we have in the New Testament is in a chapter regarding the Enemy.
I surely won’t support Huckabee, and I hope I get to sling new mud at you tomorrow.
Accepting “Gifts”
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According to a December 14th, 2007 Politico.com article:
Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he appointed to state posts during his decade as governor, a Politico analysis of state public records found.
Since he set his sights on the White House, those supporters, their families and their companies have kept on giving. They contributed nearly $161,000 to a pre-presidential campaign account and Huckabee’s official campaign committee since late last year, according to state and federal campaign finance records.
Gifts are something someone gives with no intention of getting anything back in return. A gift is usually given within family, but it is also common for friends to give gifts for celebratory reasons. Employers give gifts as a thank you for a job well done.
When someone offers an item to a member of government, it is never a gift. If that person receives benefits after the giving of the item of value, it is worse than a gift: it is a bribe.
Mike Huckabee’s record on accepting these items of value, and quickly offering something of greater value in return, is yet another proof that Huckabee is not fit to be President, and not fit to even be a police chief. Abusing the power of office by giving unelected gift-givers that same power should be investigated, and if a crime was committed, the maximum penalty should be dosed out.
Even worse, the same “gift”-givers when Huckabee was Governor are now giving new “gifts” to Huckabee’s Presidential campaign. What will the response be should Huckabee be elected to President?
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Legal Money Laundering and Legal Tax Evansion
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Supposed business leader Mitt Romney may not be the money marvel and budgeting genius that his supporters make him out to me. After reading the LA Times today, it seems that he may have mastered one thing: knowing about government’s tax loopholes, and taking advantage of them. I own corporations myself, and there are many legimate ways to save on taxes. I only use the moral ones, though.
The LA Times article alleges the following:
But aides to the Republican presidential hopeful and former colleagues acknowledged that the tax-friendly jurisdictions helped attract billions of additional investment dollars to Romney’s former company, Bain Capital, and thus boosted profits for Romney and his partners.
Romney has based his White House bid, in part, on the skills he learned as co-founder and chief of Bain Capital, one of the nation’s most successful private equity groups. His campaign cites his record while governor of Massachusetts of closing state tax loopholes; his involvement with foreign tax havens had not previously come to light.
In the Cayman Islands, Romney was listed as a general partner and personally invested in BCIP Associates III Cayman, a private equity fund that is registered at a post office box on Grand Cayman Island and that indirectly buys equity in U.S. companies. The arrangement shields foreign investors from U.S. taxes they would pay for investing in U.S. companies.
So here is a man running for President, a man who campaigns on his supposed policy of closing tax loopholes, and that very man’s business profited from the very same loopholes he threatens to close for us middle class and poor business owners. Lovely. If I was to make a successful business, I wouldn’t do it by utilizing loopholes that would give me an uncompetitive government-sponsored advantage. Tax laws are supposed to be even (yeah, right), but in reality, they’re not. The powerful always have an advantage, so giving them congratulations on making a profitable business is not worthy of your time. Face it: the powerful can make money, and you and I can try, only to have it robbed through taxation and Federal Reserve inflationary policies.
Would you really vote for an individual who flip-flops not only about his moral views, years after he made policy that went against his new views, but also flip-flops on holding himself to the same standard that he will enforce for others who MUST obey the laws that he signs?
This guy has nothing going for him as President, and this issues is just the cherry on the topping of proof as to why. Glad to sling the mud at your, Mitt. We’ll include it on your resume for future offices that we’re hopeful you’ll not win.
Pardons for Payment
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Slinging the Mud at Mike Huckabee is becoming easier than ordering a value meal at McDonald’s. Every day that passes, there’s new news on more terrible activities in the supposed pastor’s past. Make note not of the words of a Christian, but of their actions. Judge them not, but do remember that politicians that perform deeds contrary to their words do not change. Don’t give Huckabee the reward of Presidency, or even support, if the man has a past like he alledgely does.
Today’s Huckabee mud slinging covers one pardon out of 1000 that he gave, this one over a 4-time drunk driver. From the National Review:
The question is if there was there a connection between his wife Glenda Fields’s five-figure political donations and Huckabee’s action. On April 14, 2004, then-Gov. Huckabee commuted the sentence of Mr. Fields — then a four-time driving-while-intoxicated offender — granting him early release from prison. Fields, a resident of the western Arkansas town of Van Buren, was a habitual offender. He had already been convicted of DWIs in 1996, 1998, and 2000, but his 2001 felony-DWI conviction resulted in the maximum six-year prison sentence and a $5,000 fine.
The political contributions by the Fields family — large by Arkansas standards — went unreported at the time Huckabee granted Eugene Fields executive clemency. The size of the donations places the Fields family in the top tier of the state GOP’s donors, alongside Arkansas aristocracy like the scions of the Fords and Stephens families. Both Scott Ford, CEO of Alltel, and Warren Stephens, CEO of Stephens, Inc., gave the Arkansas Republican party $10,000 in 2003.
And this is a man who Christians admire? The enemies of faith know the words to say better than the protectors of it. I’m not surprised that many of my Christian friends admire Huckabee, since he was a pastor and a governor and proclaims God as his main supporter. Of course, I recall that Jesus was offered the role of political leader by the Enemy, and he declined it. I wouldn’t be so fast to proclaim that God supports me when the only Biblical relevancy we have in the New Testament is in a chapter regarding the Enemy.
I surely won’t support Huckabee, and I hope I get to sling new mud at you tomorrow.
Accepting “Gifts”
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According to a December 14th, 2007 Politico.com article:
Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he appointed to state posts during his decade as governor, a Politico analysis of state public records found.
Since he set his sights on the White House, those supporters, their families and their companies have kept on giving. They contributed nearly $161,000 to a pre-presidential campaign account and Huckabee’s official campaign committee since late last year, according to state and federal campaign finance records.
Gifts are something someone gives with no intention of getting anything back in return. A gift is usually given within family, but it is also common for friends to give gifts for celebratory reasons. Employers give gifts as a thank you for a job well done.
When someone offers an item to a member of government, it is never a gift. If that person receives benefits after the giving of the item of value, it is worse than a gift: it is a bribe.
Mike Huckabee’s record on accepting these items of value, and quickly offering something of greater value in return, is yet another proof that Huckabee is not fit to be President, and not fit to even be a police chief. Abusing the power of office by giving unelected gift-givers that same power should be investigated, and if a crime was committed, the maximum penalty should be dosed out.
Even worse, the same “gift”-givers when Huckabee was Governor are now giving new “gifts” to Huckabee’s Presidential campaign. What will the response be should Huckabee be elected to President?
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