Ralph Nader isn't pulling any punches when sizing up Mitt the Twit Romney.
Hey, Mitt, why start with the 47 percent? Fully 100 percent of the
nation’s 500 biggest corporations are dependent on various kinds of
corporate welfare – subsidies, giveaways, bailouts, waivers, and other
dazzling preferences – while many pay no tax at all on very substantial
profits (see their familiar names – General Electric, Pepco, Verizon
etc. – here)
Are the corporations that receive this corporate welfare going to
vote for President Obama? (Mr. Romney has declared that corporations are
people.) Of course they’re not. Nor are all of the 47 percent of people
who are “dependent upon government.”
Mr. Romney doesn’t understand the double standard where government
checks, whether already paid for or not, to people are called
“entitlements” while far bigger checks to corporations are called
“incentives.” Romney has lost control of his self-consciousness. Here is
a man who talks about 47 percent of American households paying no
income taxes (more on this later) while he has refused, unlike his
father, to release back years of tax returns because they’ll show he has
parked much of his wealth and income in foreign tax havens like the
Bahamas precisely in order to avoid paying U.S. taxes.
Indeed, as tax expert and former New York Times Pulitzer prize-winner David Cay Johnston said on Democracy Now,
Romney has maneuvered the tax laws so that his five sons will continue
to receive millions of tax-free dollars from their parents’ enormous pot
of wealth.
...either ignorance, callousness or both infected Mitt Romney’s pejorative
characterizations of the “government dependent” 47 percent with victim
mentalities who believe that they are entitled to the government
providing them the necessities of life without paying income tax. Let’s
see who these people are in these recessionary times. Unemployed
Americans. Americans who are too poor to pay income taxes. Elderly
Americans who live on their social security checks from money for which
they spent their decades of working years paying. Americans using the
“earned income tax credit,” so vigorously supported and extended by
President Ronald Reagan. And disabled Americans who have no dollars for
any income tax.
...The avarice of Romney and his buddies at the strip-mining,
job-exporting, bankrupting private equity company called Bain Capital
has no bounds. He thinks it’s perfectly fine for companies like Verizon,
Boeing, Duke Energy, Navistar, Wells Fargo and Pepco to use all of our
country’s government funded public infrastructures and services, and yet
not only pay no income tax but actually rig the tax system so they can
get billions back in “benefits” from the U.S. Treasury, as General
Electric has done for years. At the same time, Romney never speaks out
against 35,000 super-wealthy Americans who also do not pay any federal
income tax. He rarely questions crony capitalism, wants to maintain an
even bigger bloated military budget, and spearheads the many-sided
supremacy of corporations over real people throughout our entire
political economy. He is, essentially, a corporation running for
president masquerading as an individual.
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