One of Romney's Yachts flies the Cayman Islands flag.

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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,424
    i take that yacht with the cayman islands flag as a big middle finger to the united states. not that it matters, but some people will defend and make excuses for romney's tax havens until the day they die.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,674
    aerial wrote:
    Zoso wrote:
    I just don't think someone who has several yachts and equestrian horses should be deemed as in touch with the middle class and poor people.. because how could he be.. I know I wouldn't be.

    I wonder how Obama became a Millionaire?

    Look at his tax returns, which he released, and you'll see. The majority of his "wealth" comes from his book sales and income as President, some of which now may be invested in a blind trust.

    Interesting how the last three democrat presidents were people of modest means who worked hard and got to the top only to be criticized as a simple peanut farmer, cheater and foreign, non-citizen muslim for having done so as opposed to the Bushes and now Willard Mitt Romney who started from privelage and slam every government program that might give the average person a leg up. I thought Horatio Alger was a republican hero?

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  • Halifax2TheMax
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    brianlux wrote:
    inlet13 wrote:
    :o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o:o


    I heard Obama car uses foreign tires... AND his daughter once waved a french flag in a school project!!!!

    :o:o:o:o:o:o:o :shock:

    :nono:

    :fp:

    Can you stop wasting time with nonsense?

    That's "freedom flag" to you, buddy. :lol:

    I just have to say, I love the humor in these threads, from all sides. My ribs hurt.

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  • DS1119
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    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    Zoso wrote:
    I just don't think someone who has several yachts and equestrian horses should be deemed as in touch with the middle class and poor people.. because how could he be.. I know I wouldn't be.

    I wonder how Obama became a Millionaire?

    He made his money writing books. But he also isn't mega-rich. He's rich... Yes. But his net worth is about $11 million. Romeny's is unknown since he's hidden so much of it in foreign tax shelters. But probably close to $750 million.

    And Romeny was born rich.


    So what if this is actually true?
  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    Jason P wrote:
    This reminds me of the "green" thread.



    I miss that thread. :(
  • mikepegg44
    mikepegg44 Posts: 3,353
    Halifax2TheMax wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    Zoso wrote:
    I just don't think someone who has several yachts and equestrian horses should be deemed as in touch with the middle class and poor people.. because how could he be.. I know I wouldn't be.

    I wonder how Obama became a Millionaire?

    Look at his tax returns, which he released, and you'll see. The majority of his "wealth" comes from his book sales and income as President, some of which now may be invested in a blind trust.

    Interesting how the last three democrat presidents were people of modest means who worked hard and got to the top only to be criticized as a simple peanut farmer, cheater and foreign, non-citizen muslim for having done so as opposed to the Bushes and now Willard Mitt Romney who started from privelage and slam every government program that might give the average person a leg up. I thought Horatio Alger was a republican hero?


    Peace.

    you make a great point.

    it is sad. Those situations should be celebrated by the republicans as a "see it is possible" kind of thing. You can disagree but still be complimentary. The republicans should never downplay "bootstrap" stories.

    now back to what is important... Cayman island tax shelters are more American than apple pie.
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  • j1kotwic
    j1kotwic Posts: 168
    Why is it bad to be rich? Doesn't everyone want to be rich? If he did something illegal with his taxes then wouldn't he be in trouble with the law? Do you expect him to pay more taxes than what is owed? When I pay my taxes, I pay what is owed. Nothing more, nothing less. I just don't understand why people are attacking Romney because he's rich. And it doesn't look like he broke any tax laws. So what is the issue?
  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,327
    j1kotwic wrote:
    Why is it bad to be rich? Doesn't everyone want to be rich? If he did something illegal with his taxes then wouldn't he be in trouble with the law? Do you expect him to pay more taxes than what is owed? When I pay my taxes, I pay what is owed. Nothing more, nothing less. I just don't understand why people are attacking Romney because he's rich. And it doesn't look like he broke any tax laws. So what is the issue?
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  • Prince Of Dorkness
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    j1kotwic wrote:
    Why is it bad to be rich? Doesn't everyone want to be rich? If he did something illegal with his taxes then wouldn't he be in trouble with the law? Do you expect him to pay more taxes than what is owed? When I pay my taxes, I pay what is owed. Nothing more, nothing less. I just don't understand why people are attacking Romney because he's rich. And it doesn't look like he broke any tax laws. So what is the issue?


    It's not "bad" to be rich. What is "bad" is when you then use your money to stack the deck in your favor, screwing over the people and the national infrastructure that would make it possible for anyone else to thrive or even survive. Nobody expects him to "pay more taxes than what is owed."

    But he hasn't even paid what is owed. He's hidden his money in foreign accounts, used shady accounting to hide his wealth and has reportedly not paid taxes for 10 years. (and once they finally get through the very intentionally-written clusterfuck that is the Bain accounting documents, we probably WILL have proof that he broke laws.)

    Nobody is attacking him because he's rich. There are rich people who see that they made their money by using the system set up and paid for by us all and are willing to take part in it's continued support and growth and THEN there are the rich people who think of us as worker bees or "you people" that are a sub-human race that they don't really need to care about.

    and THAT is the issue.
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  • JOEJOEJOE
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    j1kotwic wrote:
    Why is it bad to be rich? Doesn't everyone want to be rich? If he did something illegal with his taxes then wouldn't he be in trouble with the law? Do you expect him to pay more taxes than what is owed? When I pay my taxes, I pay what is owed. Nothing more, nothing less. I just don't understand why people are attacking Romney because he's rich. And it doesn't look like he broke any tax laws. So what is the issue?

    Nothing wrong with being rich, but if someone stashes their riches offshore to avoid paying tax on the investment income derived from the offshore investments, they is in violation of IRS law!
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    I just want to say that the yacht's home port is probably in the Cayman Islands and that is why the flag was flying.

    The owner of my company's yacht used to have the Bahamian flag on it because he kept it there in the winter and Nassau was it's home port even though it spent most of the time on the Jersey shore.

    And I just got back from a vacation in Italy and my family and I rented a small motor boat to circle the island of Capri. And we passed a 400+ foot monstrosity of a yacht called Al Mirqab. My sister's fiancee googled the yacht and saw that it's owned by the prime minister of Qatar. The Cayman islands flag was on that yacht as well.
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