Romney Tells Millionaire Donors What He REALLY Thinks of Obama Voters (page 38)

darth frosty

Hate to pile on thought about making another thread for this but um conservatives explain how this guy can fix our ecconomy when he has to borrow to fix his campaigne?!?

Politico

Romney awarded bonuses to top aides

Romney campaign manager Matt Rhoades is shown. | AP Photo

Campaign manager Matt Rhoades received a $25,000 bonus after the RNC. | AP Photo

Close By TARINI PARTI | 9/21/12 6:08 AM EDT

Mitt Romney's campaign took out a $20 million loan in August and ended the month with $38 million less in the bank than President Barack Obama.

At the same time, the campaign gave out about $200,000 in bonuses to senior employees just after the Republican National Convention, which ended with the candidate not getting much of a bounce in the polls.

The beneficiaries included national political director Richard Beeson, campaign manager Matt Rhoades,
manager Matt Rhoades, general counsel Kathryn Biber, policy adviser Lanhee Chen, communications director Gail Gitcho, digital director Zach Moffatt and adviser Gabriel Schoenfeld, according to federal campaign finance reports filed Thursday. The Washington Post first reported the bonuses.

Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said the bonuses were related to the former Massachusetts governor's GOP primary performance.

"These were primary win bonuses pursuant to employment agreements paid after the convention," Saul said in an email Friday morning.

According to the Post, Beeson received a $37,500 bonus on top of his monthly salary of $13,750. Rhoades, Chen and Gitcho received $25,000 each.

Meanwhile, Romney spent $66 million in August and took out a $20 million secure loan. Campaign officials have said the loan was needed to allow it to keep spending until Romney officially became the nominee and freed up general election funds.

Obama's campaign raised $84.7 million and spent $83.7 million in August.

FlyingHighNow

Now, such sentiments aren't new; "Atlas Shrugged" was, after all, published in 1957. In the past, however, even Republican politicians who privately shared the elite's contempt for the masses knew enough to keep it to themselves and managed to fake some appreciation for ordinary workers. At this point, however, the party's contempt for the working class is apparently too complete, too pervasive to hide.

The point is that what people are now calling the Boca Moment wasn't some trivial gaffe. It was a window into the true attitudes of what has become a party of the wealthy, by the wealthy, and for the wealthy, a party that considers the rest of us unworthy of even a pretense of respect.

And yet a bunch of the 47% will still vote for GOP candidates.

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Romney's 2011 Tax Return released today, looks like he paid 14% in taxes.

botchtowersociety

Hate to pile on thought about making another thread for this but um conservatives explain how this guy can fix our ecconomy when he has to borrow to fix his campaigne?!?

Romney couldn't spend from his general election fund until after he was officially nominated. He took out a bridge loan for that period. It is all in the article. Nothing to see here, move along.

botchtowersociety

Romney's 2011 Tax Return released today, looks like he paid 14% in taxes.

They released his average tax rate over the past 20 years too:

http://www.mittromney.com/blogs/mitts-view/2012/09/note-trustee-brad-malt

In each year during the entire 20-year period, the Romneys owed both state and federal income taxes.

Over the entire 20-year period, the average annual effective federal tax rate was 20.20%.

Over the entire 20-year period, the lowest annual effective federal personal tax rate was 13.66%.

Over the entire 20-year period, the Romneys gave to charity an average of 13.45% of their adjusted gross income.

Over the entire 20-year period, the total federal and state taxes owed plus the total charitable donations deducted represented 38.49% of total AGI.

During the 20-year period covered by the PWC letter, Gov. and Mrs. Romney paid 100 percent of the taxes that they owed.

Obama paid about the same recently. I think it was 20% last year, IIRC.

botchtowersociety

Romney gave 30% to charity last year. Obviously, he is a greedy, selfish 1%er who doesn't care about others.

rather be in hades

lol when he was running for election?

so his trust fund manager can say:

In each year during the entire 20-year period, the Romneys owed both state and federal income taxes.

Over the entire 20-year period, the average annual effective federal tax rate was 20.20%.

Over the entire 20-year period, the lowest annual effective federal personal tax rate was 13.66%.

Over the entire 20-year period, the Romneys gave to charity an average of 13.45% of their adjusted gross income.

Over the entire 20-year period, the total federal and state taxes owed plus the total charitable donations deducted represented 38.49% of total AGI.

During the 20-year period covered by the PWC letter, Gov. and Mrs. Romney paid 100 percent of the taxes that they owed.

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do you really just expect people to simply take his word? do you not see the mathematical wiggle room in those statements?

botchtowersociety

Romney gives, on average, twice as much as a percentage of his income as Obama does.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/sep/21/romney-doubles-obamas-charitable-giving/

Romney doubles Obama's charitable giving

Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is releasing a brief summary of 20 years of tax returns on Friday, and his accountant says it will show he gave 13.45 percent of his adjusted gross income to charities.

That's nearly twice the rate of President Obama, who according to his tax returns from 2000 through 2011 donated just less than 7 percent of his adjusted gross income to charities.

And let's not even talk about Biden.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/225678/joe-biden-and-american-charity/byron-york#

Adjusted
Gross Income Charity

1998 $215,432 $195

1999 $210,797 $120

2000 $219,953 $360

2001 $220,712 $360

2002 $227,811 $260

2003 $231,375 $260

2004 $234,271 $380

2005 $321,379 $380

2006 $248,459 $380

2007 $319,853 $995

Total $2,450,042 $3,690

designs

Ann's about ready to give you a BIG

botchtowersociety

so his trust fund manager can say.... do you really just expect people to simply take his word? do you not see the mathematical wiggle room in those statements?

Ropes & Gray, A-List 2011:

http://www.americanlawyer.com/PubArticleTAL.jsp?id=1202498033012&slreturn=20120821151702

"Law Firm of the Year"

http://bestlawfirms.usnews.com/firmprofile.aspx?firm_id=17395&country=US

And the accolades don't stop there:

http://www.vault.com/wps/portal/usa/companies/rankings?companyId=414

Are you telling me that a partner at this prestigious firm is lying? That they would risk their reputations on it? On what evidence?

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