Romney's Tax Returns are Safe

[SMOKE 1,426]

Tell me why they are more important. Give an example or two. Don't just assert that they are.

are you ready to do the same?

[Penny Lane 8,159]

Tax transcripts are less important than college transcript, when you are evaluating candidates' qualifications for public office. If the voting public had spent more effort in vetting Barry Soetoro, then Hilary would be the one seeking reelection this year, and the economy would have recovered long ago under her husband's tutelage.

Well if this is the case, Romney shouldn't ask potential VPs for tax transcripts, but college transcripts instead.

There's a reason why one's a tradition and the other isn't: one is more important. And it's not the one you say it is.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

You must be a high priority caller.

Clearly you've never dealt with Los Angeles Superior Court's ADR department.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

If one is amnestied, one must have committed a crime. If there was no crime committed, then there can be no amnesty. Last I checked, a person that has committed a crime is a felon.

One does not follow from the other. Amnesty can be granted even if no crime was committed. Amnesty also ends the investigation of possible crimes and any resulting charges, innocent until found guilty, and all that. Amnesty does not apply only to criminal laws.

Felon is a term defined in the law. Not all criminals are felons.

[SMOKE 1,426]

Well if this is the case, Romney shouldn't ask potential VPs for tax transcripts, but college transcripts instead.

There's a reason why one's a tradition and the other isn't: one is more important. And it's not the one you say it is.

why?

[akihon 129]

i'm sure there has been more than a few. its part of the college experience on most campuses.

yes, and I'm pretty sure most of them got through an Ivy League university. Hence why I said that.

looks like Harsh isn't responding anymore lawl.

[akihon 129]

why?

I think particularly for Romney, since he's running based on financial stuff, he should put up his tax returns. On top of that, if he made everybody else show up their tax returns, how come he suddenly is mum on his?

I also suggest you stop asking stupid questions

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[elmcitymaven 9,712]

are you ready to do the same?

I already have in this thread, I believe. If not, let me state it again:

If a candidate is running on the strength of his financial probity, business sense and unimpeachable morals, recent tax returns are a good way to back up those assertions. If a candidate is running on his academic record as a twentysomething while he himself is now in his fifties, then transcripts are relevant.

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Tell me why they are more important. Give an example or two. Don't just assert that they are.

Let's say all his courses better prepared him to be a radical and a community organizer than the leader of the free world, well versed in the writing of communist revolutionaries like Ernesto Guevara, and less so in free market principles and the writings of John Locke and Adam Smith.

Edited September 6, 2012 by The Patriot

[SMOKE 1,426]

I already have in this thread, I believe. If not, let me state it again:

If a candidate is running on the strength of his financial probity, business sense and unimpeachable morals, recent tax returns are a good way to back up those assertions. If a candidate is running on his academic record as a twentysomething while he himself is now in his fifties, then transcripts are relevant.

thats why obama's college transcripts are just as important as romney's tax records.

I also suggest you stop asking stupid questions

i think you should kiss the brown spot. if you're looking for someone to trade insults with you found him. lets go..fire away.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Let's say all his courses better prepared his to be a radical and a community organizer than the leader of the free world, well versed in the writing of communist revolutionaries like Ernesto Guevara, and less so in free market principles and the writings of John Locke and Adam Smith.

Impossible in a liberal arts college. If Columbia's curriculum in the 80s was similar to Yale's in the 90s (and it's fair to assume some level of resemblance here), he would have taken at least some "hard" science. I can't recall a single pinko physics course in the course manual, unless you count Local Flora, where you went on a field trip once a week to go identify trees and flowers, then go back to the lab to write poetry about and draw pictures of the pretty daisies.

thats why obama's college transcripts are just as important as romney's tax records.

How was Columbia's curriculum immoral in the early 80s?

[SMOKE 1,426]

How was Columbia's curriculum immoral in the early 80s?

no. if we're talking about someone's morals. why wouldn't we consider whether or not someone lied about being & took advantage of special priviledges afforded to exchange students in the same light as what someone's tax records might show?

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[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Impossible in a liberal arts college. If Columbia's curriculum in the 80s was similar to Yale's in the 90s (and it's fair to assume some level of resemblance here), he would have taken at least some "hard" science. I can't recall a single pinko physics course in the course manual, unless you count Local Flora, where you went on a field trip once a week to go identify trees and flowers, then go back to the lab to write poetry about and draw pictures of the pretty daisies.

You usually gain little insight from core courses. The electives are the ones that demonstrate the true political leanings of the candidate. For instance, a 300 level course entitled, "Bolshevik Theater Appreciation" could be suspect.

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

You usually gain little insight from core courses. The electives are the ones that demonstrate the true political leanings of the candidate. For instance, a 300 level course entitled, "Bolshevik Theater Appreciation" could be suspect.

That's an unbelievable generalization. If you'd seen my higher level coursework, you might think me a member of the Cato Institute.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

i truly believe mitt romney will be the president elect on 11-7-12. yes, i do.

as far as an 'amnestied felon'. well, i guess we'll just have to start calling you a 'feloner' or something like that. because, you ain't got jack chit that can prove anything. romney already said revealing his tax information would 'violate his religous privacy' ....yes, i loved that line.

Yeah, I can see how you would love that load of bull about religious privacy. Why then did he opt to violate his religious privacy for 2010 and plans on violating it for 2011? Does this privacy only apply to years prior to 2010?