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   icky mung-mung said, 8 months ago

   Romney was the best candidate the GOP could muster—think about that. Go ahead, take your time. Just think about it.
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   kapock said, 8 months ago

   I knew the minute I saw the Romney video that there would have to be a moment of reckoning with Lucky Ducky. Of course now that he has been made obsolete by “real life”, Lucky Ducky may be permanently out of the workforce, and won’t even have to pay payroll taxes, let alone income tax. If he starves or freezes to death, he’s even off the hook for sales taxes. Gotcha!
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   kapock said, 8 months ago

   P.S. I wish the strip had noted that not only does Romney pay hardly any tax, his success in private equity and his entire personal financial picture have been specifically structured around tax avoidance.
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   NebulousRikulau said, 8 months ago

   @icky mung-mung

   Not exactly.
   There was Ron Paul, but he’s “not Republican enough,” and thus un-electable.
   Other than that, Romney’s the best that was WILLING to run for president this year.
   Tea Party Extremism makes good headlines, but the GOP Core would rather have a level playing field in 2016 than to go up against an incumbent with a solid 47% base now.
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   Zyreenesque said, 8 months ago

   they have to pay a lot to be the image of that party
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   ronald rini said, 8 months ago

   what I can not figure out is why he is not paying his fair share. He paid2 million in taxes. I did not pay anywhere near that. So isn’t it me and everyone else that does not pay 2 mill not paying thier fair share.
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   vanpelt said, 8 months ago

   ronald, I don’t know whether you’re joking or not. If not, just learn about percentages.

   Incidentally, the term “lucky ducky” comes from an infamous Wall Street Journal editorial which — in deadly earnest, without conscious irony — referred to people with incomes so low they don’t pay federal income tax as “lucky duckies”. (Of course, even if — like me, last year — your income is so low you don’t pay federal income tax, you still pay FICA, sales tax, car tag tax, etc. But the WSJ and Romney seem to be obsessed with federal income tax.)
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   walruscarver2000 said, 8 months ago

   @NebulousRikulau

   Now be fair. There were other choices. We had Newt and Perry of Texas….oh…..,never mind.
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   masterskrain said, 8 months ago

   “Who’s Writing This Stuff?”
   The RNC, and FAUX “News” would be a good place to start…
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    masterskrain said, 8 months ago

    @icky mung-mung

    Isn’t that kind of like saying you just bought the finest Edsel, or the best Yugo ever built?
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    Will.Rubin said, 8 months ago

    @vanpelt

    Here’s your percentages: Romney paid roughy 2000000% more in federal taxes a bit under half of America. I think that’s more than fair!
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    tecumseh18 said, 8 months ago

    Have to agree with the critic. This was Daily Worker-level satire. Thank God he stopped it.
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    micromove said, 8 months ago

    Awesome strip!!!
    @Will.Ruben: Romney also made 1000000000% more than 99.9999% of Americans, by shipping their jobs to China, still going on (go google Sensata Technologies). You should also google “Plutocrat” while you’re at it.
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    JohnnyDiego said, 8 months ago

    @Will.Rubin

    If I paid 14% in income taxes on $30,000 it would leave me $25,800.

    I guess I would have to forgo that new car this year.

    If I paid 14% in income taxes on $14,000,000 it would leave me $12,040,000.

    I guess I could add to my already obscene fleet.
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    Will.Rubin said, 8 months ago

    @micromove

    Romney found a gross inefficiency in some businesses and corrected it. This would have generated more American profit that would be used to create more and better American jobs if only Barack Hussein Obama would let Free Markets (Google that) work and not tax the economy to a standstill. Watch Fox news for a change and have your socialist blinders removed!
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