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(Slate) Strange Here's a fun game: type your annual income into the Romneyizer and find out how long it would take ol' Mitt to make it   (slate.com) divider line 503
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2012-01-24 05:57:15 PM
1.3 days.
 
2012-01-24 05:59:49 PM
9 hours, 42 minutes, and 20 seconds.

So, in one work day, he makes as much as I do ALL YEAR.

Damn.
 
2012-01-24 06:05:52 PM
Whew, it's over a day and a half, I feel rich!

/would kill for a 15% tax rate
 
2012-01-24 06:10:43 PM
12 hours, 32 minutes and 11 seconds.

Well this makes sense, he's clearly 700 times more valuable than I am.
 
2012-01-24 06:12:38 PM
It's easy to make a shiatpot full of money when you already have money. I'ld be more interested in how long it took him to make his first million(s).
 
2012-01-24 06:13:56 PM
EatenTheSun: It's easy to make a shiatpot full of money when you already have money. I'ld be more interested in how long it took him to make his first million(s).

How long does it take for a sperm to reach the egg, on average? The kid was set from the very start.
 
2012-01-24 06:25:34 PM
Safety Dance. Do it. DO IT.
 
2012-01-24 06:28:53 PM
EatenTheSun: It's easy to make a shiatpot full of money when you already have money. I'ld be more interested in how long it took him to make his first million(s).

Nine months
 
2012-01-24 06:31:56 PM
1 days 8 hours 21 minutes and 9 seconds

And, then, I'd take the rest of the year off if I was Mitt. Recuperation, if you will.
 
2012-01-24 06:34:21 PM
Hmmm, less than a day and a half.

All that really means to me is I would like to make more. He was born with a silver spoon stuck up his ass and he makes money from the continuance of that elite line.

I don't like how he makes it, I don't like him and how he stands for NOTHING, and I don't want him to be president.
 
2012-01-24 06:43:37 PM
What I'd like to know is how long it would take ol' Mitt to stand up again after I kicked him in the nuts.
 
2012-01-24 06:48:59 PM
Sleeping Monkey: EatenTheSun: It's easy to make a shiatpot full of money when you already have money. I'ld be more interested in how long it took him to make his first million(s).

Nine months


Ok. Feel free to hate him for not earning his millions then.
 
2012-01-24 06:54:00 PM
How long would it take Mitt to earn what I do in a year if he started from nothing? No inheritance, no family money, no political or business connections. And, since the GOP is opposed to such things, no social safety net. No Pell grants to get through school, no unemployment, no welfare, no Medicare or Medicaid should be or one of his wives ... er, family become sick.
 
2012-01-24 07:01:06 PM
Wow. That's good money for a guy that travels the country making speeches.

What a parasite.
 
2012-01-24 07:14:58 PM
EatenTheSun: Ok. Feel free to hate him for not earning his millions then.

How about hating him for paying a 14% tax rate and thinking he should pay less in taxes?
 
2012-01-24 07:17:41 PM
video man: Safety Dance. Do it. DO IT.

S S S SA A A AF F F FE E E ET T T TY Y Y Y



SAFETY!



DANCE!
 
2012-01-24 07:24:57 PM
"make" is a strong word. That implies "doing" something.
 
2012-01-24 07:26:53 PM
Just over 8 hours. Hurrah for being a grad student on a stipend!

Did the math, and it would take me over 100 years just to earn the amount he paid in taxes...
 
2012-01-24 07:26:56 PM
Is there a version where you can compare home many businesses and jobs you created or saved compared to Romney?
 
2012-01-24 07:27:10 PM
As I posted in the other thread, 1 day, 20 hours and change.

Mugato: "make" is a strong word. That implies "doing" something.

Also, this. The Romneytron should well be titled, "How long does it take Romney to misappropriate your annual income?"
 
2012-01-24 07:27:54 PM
Yay! Class warfare! All Hail Obama!
 
2012-01-24 07:28:15 PM
taurusowner: Is there a version where you can compare home many businesses and jobs you created or saved compared to Romney?

Well, I'm at 0 or a small positive (as a productive, working member of society), so I'm already better than the gigantic negatives Mr. Vulture Capitalist is running.
 
2012-01-24 07:28:27 PM
taurusowner: Is there a version where you can compare home many businesses and jobs you created or saved compared to Romney?

Well, since he didn't create any in 2010, I'd say I have him beat there.
 
2012-01-24 07:28:28 PM
4 years.

He's more upper middle than rich.
 
2012-01-24 07:28:29 PM
More than 3 days, less than 4. Someday, if I work hard, I hope to make as much as week's worth of Romney-income per year! Woo-hoo!
 
2012-01-24 07:28:36 PM
miss diminutive: Well this makes sense, he's clearly 700 times more valuable than I am.

Well of course. You're a woman.

/ducks
 
2012-01-24 07:28:38 PM
miss diminutive: 12 hours, 32 minutes and 11 seconds.

Well this makes sense, he's clearly 700 times more valuable than I am.


If you'd simply work a little a harder, you could bump that up to maybe 33-34 minutes.
 
2012-01-24 07:28:39 PM
Seabasser: Did the math, and it would take me over 100 years just to earn the amount he paid in taxes...

I have no sympathy for the wealthy. I really don't.
 
2012-01-24 07:28:57 PM
3StratMan: Yay! Class warfare! All Hail Obama!

oneutah.org
 
2012-01-24 07:28:58 PM
There's two problems that this presents:

1) The widening income disparity between the top 1% and the rest of us.
2) The disparity between what I pay as a tax rate and what he pays as a tax rate.

Can we solve at least one of them?
 
2012-01-24 07:29:15 PM
Just over two days.

And I paid a whole shiatload more than %15 in taxes.
 
2012-01-24 07:29:19 PM
Marcus Aurelius: Wow. That's good money for a guy that travels the country making speeches. What a parasite.

So the new definition of parasite has been changed to someone who pays millions in taxes and gives millions to charity. This newspeak is awesome!
 
2012-01-24 07:29:51 PM
sprawl15: 4 years.

He's more upper middle than rich.


sup Warren.
 
2012-01-24 07:29:53 PM
All you ivory tower liberal elites breaking 24hrs are doin' alright.
 
2012-01-24 07:30:31 PM
GAT_00: EatenTheSun: Ok. Feel free to hate him for not earning his millions then.

How about hating him for paying a 14% tax rate and thinking he should pay less in taxes?


That's your right I suppose, even though it sounds an awful lot like when one toddler cries because another has a toy that they want. There are plenty of other reasons to dislike him than because he is rich.

I wonder what tax rate Steve Jobs paid. Wasn't most of his money from capital gains?
 
2012-01-24 07:30:37 PM
taurusowner: Is there a version where you can compare home many businesses and jobs you created or saved compared to Romney?

My spending and consumption has likely generated positive, albeit small impacts on the local economy where I live. Since I haven't spent any time gutting companies, firing people and repeating, I feel pretty safe in my assumption that my impact on jobs in the US is far more positive than his.
 
2012-01-24 07:31:01 PM
soy_bomb: Marcus Aurelius: Wow. That's good money for a guy that travels the country making speeches. What a parasite.

So the new definition of parasite has been changed to someone who pays millions in taxes and gives millions to charity. This newspeak is awesome! robs millions from workers and rolls a fraction into gold to shower on us all. A golden shower, if you will.


He's a farking parasite.
 
2012-01-24 07:31:03 PM
Do all you haters hate Kerry? Clinton? Soros? Michael Moore? The Kennedys? I bet not. It's okay for your guys to be rich, but not for those on the right. Envy is an ugly thing.
 
2012-01-24 07:31:41 PM
EatenTheSun: GAT_00: EatenTheSun: Ok. Feel free to hate him for not earning his millions then.

How about hating him for paying a 14% tax rate and thinking he should pay less in taxes?

That's your right I suppose, even though it sounds an awful lot like when one toddler cries because another has a toy that they want. There are plenty of other reasons to dislike him than because he is rich.

I wonder what tax rate Steve Jobs paid. Wasn't most of his money from capital gains?


He should have paid more, too. This free ride for wealthy aristocrats has to stop.
 
2012-01-24 07:32:03 PM
3StratMan: Yay! Class warfare! All Hail Obama!

should be "All Hail Buffett"
as Warren pointed out his side is winning the war by a huge margin
 
2012-01-24 07:32:04 PM
Slightly less than 24 hours, and I'm in Canada (where I pay a hell of a lot more than 15% in taxes).

/not complaining
 
2012-01-24 07:32:09 PM
A slightly shorter amount of time than my average shift length.
 
2012-01-24 07:32:24 PM
icanhasinternets.com
 
2012-01-24 07:32:32 PM
soy_bomb: So the new definition of parasite has been changed to someone who pays millions in taxes and gives millions to charity. This newspeak is awesome!

Charity - n. The act of giving money to a political organization because a guy found some golden plates in his backyard that commanded you to. No you can't see them.
 
2012-01-24 07:33:30 PM
elliemooneyham: Do all you haters hate Kerry? Clinton? Soros? Michael Moore? The Kennedys? I bet not. It's okay for your guys to be rich, but not for those on the right. Envy is an ugly thing.

Do Kerry, Clinton, Moore, or the Kennedys advocate cutting the (already historically low) taxes on the rich and higher taxes on the not-rich?
 
2012-01-24 07:33:33 PM
EatenTheSun: GAT_00: EatenTheSun: Ok. Feel free to hate him for not earning his millions then.

How about hating him for paying a 14% tax rate and thinking he should pay less in taxes?

That's your right I suppose, even though it sounds an awful lot like when one toddler cries because another has a toy that they want. There are plenty of other reasons to dislike him than because he is rich.

I wonder what tax rate Steve Jobs paid. Wasn't most of his money from capital gains?


Well, Steve Jobs isn't running for President and thinks the solution to the budget is to slash the tax rate for millionaires by 7% while raising the taxes for the majority of Americans, but good try to change to subject. I'm not an iFan though.
 
2012-01-24 07:33:41 PM
21 hours. Nice.

/RON PAUL
 
2012-01-24 07:33:53 PM
Cagey B: soy_bomb: So the new definition of parasite has been changed to someone who pays millions in taxes and gives millions to charity. This newspeak is awesome!

Charity - n. The act of giving money to a political organization because a guy found some golden plates in his backyard that commanded you to. No you can't see them.


Also, charity - n. The act of stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the nation's working class and returning a tiny fraction of that in whatever way you see fit.
 
2012-01-24 07:34:03 PM
elliemooneyham: Do all you haters hate Kerry? Clinton? Soros? Michael Moore? The Kennedys? I bet not. It's okay for your guys to be rich, but not for those on the right. Envy is an ugly thing.

Not that you're interested in actually having a conversation on the topic, but the part that's not okay is being rich, paying a small amount in taxes, and insisting that it should be even lower.
 
2012-01-24 07:34:11 PM
elliemooneyham: Do all you haters hate Kerry? Clinton? Soros? Michael Moore? The Kennedys? I bet not. It's okay for your guys to be rich, but not for those on the right. Envy is an ugly thing.

You moron. All those people didn't want to lower their own taxes while calling other people envious. Rub some brain cells together. Or you know, keep kicking the shiat out of strawman like a worthless liar. Your choice.
 
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