Romney the kind-hearted

[Anonymous]

wants a lower capital gains tax but ONLY for families making less than $200k a year.

Right. Because families making under 200k have soooooo much money invested in taxable accounts to begin with, and you want to give them an incentive to plow even more in the stock market so that the big players have more capital to fleece.

I suggest he lowers the income tax rate on those making under 200k to his marginal tax rate of 15%, and he can increase their capital gains rate to 50% if he wishes. Given the 30% loss in real terms that the poor suckers who have bought and held over the last 10-15 years have incurred, they will certainly be better off in the end.

[Anonymous]

This has nothing to do with Romney's heart. He could easily propose lowering the capital gains tax for everyone making a million a year or less and it wouldn't affect him personally at all. Don't you get that? He's wealthy regardless. He has all that he needs and always will. Maybe you should consider, then, that his choices about tax rates for the non-millionaires are not driven by his own needs.

[Anonymous]

He is creepy.

[Anonymous]

Pretty much everyone who runs for national public office is creepy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This has nothing to do with Romney's heart. He could easily propose lowering the capital gains tax for everyone making a million a year or less and it wouldn't affect him personally at all. Don't you get that? He's wealthy regardless. He has all that he needs and always will. Maybe you should consider, then, that his choices about tax rates for the non-millionaires are not driven by his own needs.

Sure they are. They help perpetrate the fiction of a progressive tax rate and the illusion that he is going to be a president for all who tries to help the middle class, when in fact this move would do absolutely nothing for the middle class, let alone the poor. They're driven by his electoral needs.

He also criticized Gingrich today for claiming that his actions in Congress created jobs (I'd be surprised if anything Gingrich ever did was motivated by the desire to help his constituents, but that's beside the point), saying something like "saying Congress creates jobs is like saying Al Gore created the Internet."

Oh, so if politicians don't create jobs, why the heck is he running for POTUS on the strength of his supposed background as a "job creator"? He should stay in the private sector and help the economy through more LBOs.

[Anonymous]

In other words, he has an image problem because his tax rate is so low. So he wants to pass a law to fix that image problem, even though it won't change the tax bill of middle income people much in reality.

[Anonymous]

The man is sleazy

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Anonymous wrote:The man is sleazy

I'd bet $10,000 on that.