Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > Politics and Other Controversies > Elections
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
Reply Start New Thread
 
Old 09-22-2012, 12:20 PM
 
1,422 posts, read 2,302,356 times
Reputation: 1188

Advertisements

Quote:
Originally Posted by rayneinspain View Post
Sorry, but the "charity-as-proof-of-sainthood" meme is completely moot when discussing whether or not Romney has been manipulating his taxes in order to pull one over on the American public.

Charity-as-a-tax-write-off (which is truly what it is) does not impress me whatsoever when that same person is proving daily to what ends he will go in order to appear as something he is not on his tax returns.
Exactly. Nicely stated.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 09-22-2012, 11:41 PM
 
8,754 posts, read 10,163,070 times
Reputation: 1434
Quote:
Originally Posted by rayneinspain View Post
Sorry, but the "charity-as-proof-of-sainthood" meme is completely moot when discussing whether or not Romney has been manipulating his taxes in order to pull one over on the American public.

Charity-as-a-tax-write-off (which is truly what it is) does not impress me whatsoever when that same person is proving daily to what ends he will go in order to appear as something he is not on his tax returns.

When you give that percentage of your income to charity, you can say something about a person who does, until then you need to shut it because you are making yourself look stupid.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:

Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > Politics and Other Controversies > Elections

All times are GMT -6. The time now is 09:16 PM.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top