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"Offshore" accounts are not illegal for Romney or for Kerry. The U.S. government through tax law makes it necessary (and it is wise money management) for individuals to find ways to avoid paying any more tax than they have to. This is not trickery or evasiveness; it is just good sense.
It also makes sense to have a boat built where it is least costly. These are personal choices that are based on economics. Everyone should become wise in the way they handle their money.
Absolutely agree. One is under no obligation to pay more tax than required. If the law allows off source accounts (which it shouldn't) then it is legal.
The sword does cut both ways. If one was fine with Romney's offshore accounts, one should have no objection to Kerry's.
Romney's off-shore accounts never really bothered me. It was more all the other stuff. How would anyone argue that having off-shore bank accounts would disqualify someone from being Secretary of State? Sounds like yet another neo-con distraction issue they're going to get hyped up about in the coming days and weeks.
The position of Secretary of State is slightly different than President, I don't think Kerry will be putting any tax policy or changes to corporate tax into place. By the way in case you missed it we don't get to vote on the Secretary of Defense, it was kind of difficult to vote for a plutocrat like Romney when the same type of people destroyed our economy in 2008.
Off shore accounts are perfectly legal, the loophole should be closed. Until then you can choose to vote for someone with accounts in the Caymen Islands and Switzerland, or vote for someone else as was the case in the last election.
Kerry is a good choice, he understands what it means to go to war, unlike the last few presidents and secretaries of state. He knows the cost of life and that diplomacy should be the first step to keep us out of conflicts.
You couldn't be more wrong. The right reveres veterans and patriots.
Sure.
That completely covers why no one in GOP leadership is a veteran and some are notorious chickenhawks (McConnell).
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It's when someone throws their medals away that s/he becomes a traitor.
Please explain. Because that sounds a lot like an uninformed opinion. Not that you'd deal almost exclusively in that sort of thing in this forum.
Kerry protesting against a failing war that he had extensive first-hand combat experience with would only seem like traitorous behavior to someone with little knowledge. Vietnam was a miserable failure, not worth the toll in lives. It served no national purpose.
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The fact that you bring Rush and Ted into this thead proves you have difficulty focusing.
I'm not the one making them your role models. Cheney belongs on that list, too. Along with Romney. Guys who supported the war in Nam as long as somebody else went in their place.
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There's probably medication for that.
The voice of experience, no doubt. Limbots probably know a lot about medications.
Just because Romney was guilty of having off-shore accounts does not mean the same standard should be applied to John Kerry for his nomination as Secretary of State. He also has off-shore accounts holding his money. It is different. And it has been at least a few years since he violated the law by saying his $40 million boat was docked out of Massachusetts (in R.I.) to avoid paying taxes. And there is nothing wrong with him having his boat built in New Zealand to avoid paying the price of having it built in the U.S., and subjecting himself to the U.S. job-market costs. You agree, Or do you?
In fairness,they are probably owned by his wife,or should I say her dead husband.
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