While due to the two conventions and the ensuing bounce for President Barack Obama we haven't heard a great deal about Mitt Romney's tax returns, I still hear from many conservatives the words, "Why do you care about them?" I've also heard, "Obama just wants to punish success" or "Obama's a socialist". I've even heard Romney's tax returns being compared to Obama's birth certificate.
All I'll say about those claims is Obama has shown his birth certificate (multiple times), members of the socialist party have laughed at the notion that the president is at all like them and it'd make absolutely no sense for a presidential nominee in a capitalist society want to "punish" success.
With that out of the way, I don't understand what the big deal is for Romney to release such information and for some conservatives to understand why many liberals and moderates want to see his returns. His father voluntarily released several years of tax returns. The longer this drags on, with Romney releasing a maximum of two years, the more people are going to wonder what it is he's hiding. Most liberals don't want to "punish" success; we simply want fairness. We want equality. We want for people to start at the same place, as opposed to one person receiving all the advantages and another having to play catch up from the beginning. We don't want to punish men's success. We also don't want for women to receive only $0.77 to the $1.00 that men make for performing the same job at the same productivity level. Mitt Romney is running for the highest offer in the land. Why is it wrong for us to want to know if he's been cheating the tax system for many years? To want to know how unfair the system has been to us when compared to him? The guy isn't running to be a garbageperson; he's running to become the President of the United States. I find it utterly ridiculous for the anti-government party to criticize the pro-government party for questioning the man running for the highest office in government and demanding he release some information about himself. Why should we take Romney at his word about his tax returns? The guy can rarely take himself at his own word.
All I'll say about those claims is Obama has shown his birth certificate (multiple times), members of the socialist party have laughed at the notion that the president is at all like them and it'd make absolutely no sense for a presidential nominee in a capitalist society want to "punish" success.
With that out of the way, I don't understand what the big deal is for Romney to release such information and for some conservatives to understand why many liberals and moderates want to see his returns. His father voluntarily released several years of tax returns. The longer this drags on, with Romney releasing a maximum of two years, the more people are going to wonder what it is he's hiding. Most liberals don't want to "punish" success; we simply want fairness. We want equality. We want for people to start at the same place, as opposed to one person receiving all the advantages and another having to play catch up from the beginning. We don't want to punish men's success. We also don't want for women to receive only $0.77 to the $1.00 that men make for performing the same job at the same productivity level. Mitt Romney is running for the highest offer in the land. Why is it wrong for us to want to know if he's been cheating the tax system for many years? To want to know how unfair the system has been to us when compared to him? The guy isn't running to be a garbageperson; he's running to become the President of the United States. I find it utterly ridiculous for the anti-government party to criticize the pro-government party for questioning the man running for the highest office in government and demanding he release some information about himself. Why should we take Romney at his word about his tax returns? The guy can rarely take himself at his own word.
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