The Republican Nomination For President: The Race For The Race For The White House

What's amazing to me, and what really speaks to the underlying character and motivations of the uber-rich (such as Romney) is the amount of effort they expend to pay the lowest rate possible, despite the fact that they have no practical or pressing reasons to do so.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

What's amazing to me, and what really speaks to the underlying character and motivations of the uber-rich (such as Romney) is the amount of effort they expend to pay the lowest rate possible, despite the fact that they have no practical or pressing reasons to do so.

I suspect that it's not a matter of expending effort, but rather the exact opposite.

They're handing this off to some firm that specializes in it. They hand it off, and I doubt they think about it again until they're asked to sign the paperwork.

It's not like Mitt Romney is sitting down and doing his own return on TurboTax.

What's amazing to me, and what really speaks to the underlying character and motivations of the uber-rich (such as Romney) is the amount of effort they expend to pay the lowest rate possible, despite the fact that they have no practical or pressing reasons to do so.

And you can't prove Obama isn't the food stamp president don't you know?

Money spent = effort

paying someone else to do your labor doesn't change that fact.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Money spent = effort

It does for you and me.... But Mitt Romney's income comes from investments, nowadays. "Unearned income," remember?

Cycloptichorn wrote:

paying someone else to do your labor doesn't change that fact.

I have to disagree with you. I people all the time to take care of unpleasant tasks. It's more work for me to maintain a mower, wait for good weather, mow my yard in the heat and dust and pollen, than it is to just pay someone else to do it.

Cycloptichorn wrote:

Money spent = effort

It does for you and me.... But Mitt Romney's income comes from investments, nowadays. "Unearned income," remember?

At a Republican debate last Monday, former speaker Newt Gingrich claimed that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” The Gingrich campaign quickly released a commercial the next day touting the same claim but it turns out that’s not true, according to research by the Annernberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck.org.

“Gingrich would have been correct to say the number now on food aid is historically high,” according to the most recent figures looked at by FactCheck.org. More details below:

But Gingrich goes too far to say Obama has put more on the rolls than other presidents. We asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition service for month-by-month figures going back to January 2001. And they show that under President George W. Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Nothing before comes close to that.

And under Obama, the increase so far has been 14.2 million. To be exact, the program has so far grown by 444,574 fewer recipients during Obama’s time in office than during Bush’s.

Other GOP candidates have made claims that African-Americans (or “blah” people) are the majority on public assistance in the United States. That’s also not true.

36 percent of those receiving food stamps are white, 22 percent were African American and 10 percent were Latino, according to the most recent Department of Agriculture report on the general characteristics of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or “food stamp” program.

African-Americans (or “blah” people)