Hypothetical Dystopia

I am not basing this on some figment of my imagination.

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Harry Reid • “Doubling down,” as they say, on his allegation that Mitt Romney paid no taxes for ten years.  Reid sourced this claim to an anonymous investor in Bain, Romney’s old company, and in a conference call with reporters today, said that he’s “had a number of people tell me that [Romney paid no taxes].” When asked to back up his claim, Reid replied: “The burden should be on him. He’s the one I’ve alleged has not paid any taxes. Why didn’t he release his tax returns?” On the one hand, it’s easy to attribute an incendiary allegation to an anonymous source, as Reid has done. On the other hand, the only way to confirm or discredit this allegation is—you guessed it—for Romney to release his tax returns. source (via • follow)

If birthers can be racist pieces of shit and see Obama’s birth certificate, then why can’t we see his tax returns?

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Reblogged 9 months ago from shortformblog 48 notes

What Romney's career shows, after all, is that once you're at the top, you can keep being called C.E.O. even if you're not even working at the company. You can get paid a hundred grand a year... while doing, by your own account, nothing at all for the company. You can build up an I.R.A. worth tens of millions of dollars when the maximum annual contribution is four thousand dollars... and pay a much lower tax rate on your income than the vast majority of Americans... None of these things is illegal, but none of them are things that ordinary Americans can benefit from, and that’s the real scandal of Romney's career at Bain. →

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Reblogged 10 months ago from motherjones 294 notes
I’m going to eliminate every non-essential, expensive program I can find, that includes Obamacare,

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Republican presidential candidate MITT ROMNEY, essentially telling 30 million Americans without health insurance that they’re “non-essential.”

Good job, Mitt.

(via The Huffington Post)

Let’s see, what would Republicans consider essential?

The military. Tax cuts for the rich. Subsidies for oil companies. Creationism.

Everyone else? Sorry, the Republicans don’t care.

(via liberalbutnotpartisan)

(Source: inothernews)

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Reblogged 10 months ago from liberalbutnotpartisan (Originally from inothernews) 545 notes
There was no relationship between the NAACP in Boston and Governor Mitt Romney and his administration,” Alkins says. “The only time that the NAACP had any interaction with the administration and the governor was to protest when he eliminated the affirmative action office.

— Mitt Romney and the NAACP: It’s complicated. (via motherjones)

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