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2016 Postmortem

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rivertext

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Sat Aug 11, 2012, 02:28 PM Aug 2012

Ryan budget makes Romney's Swiss & Cayman Island accts. central issue [View all]

The Ryan budget ends Medicare (as we know it) and endangers Social Security in order to give the wealthy huge tax cuts so that they can grow the economy with their windfall wealth. Their wealth is our fertilizer (so to speak). Where they spread their wealth is what matters. Therefore, the central issue of the campaign is what the rich do with their windfall of wealth. Do they grow the American economy by investing in new American businesses or do they stash the money in off shore bank accounts?

Now, more than ever, we need to see Romney's tax returns for the last 23 years to see how he has invested his windfall from those years to our benefit. If we can't rely on Romney to spend his low-tax wealth to grow the economy how can we rely on the rest of the super-rich? And if we can't rely on the rich to grow the economy then the Ryan budget is nothing but a reverse Robin hood scheme (Romney-hood) that steals from the middle class to bloat the bank accounts of the wealthy and wreck the federal budget

An accounting of Romney's taxes, his multi-million dollar IRA and his off shore bank accounts is the now more than ever essential to understanding how the rich will use what they gain from the Ryan budget tax cuts to grow our economy.

Do you agree that Romney's tax returns and off-shore accounts are more critical than ever to understanding where he and Rep. Ryan intend to take America?

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