Whoopsies?

namatad: Pocket Ninja: The tax returns released by the Romney campaign this week showed that the Ann Romney Blind Trust had reported $1,783 in interest income from a bank account held at UBS in Switzerland in 2010. But interest from the Swiss bank account -- as well as holdings in other offshore investments in the Cayman Islands, Bermudas and Ireland that appear in the trust fund's tax returns -- were not disclosed in Romney's financial disclosure form filed with the Office of Government Ethics last August.

Really? You hid $1783 in interest income?

Entering $1783 into the Romney Income Calculator reveals:

In 2010, Mitt Romney made $1783 in 43 minutes and 15 seconds.

It would take you 12148 years 9 months 25 days 3 hours 4 minutes and 44 seconds to make what Mitt made in 2010.

That's, like, Martha Stewart level idiocy right there.

u did the match backwards and sideways ....
that was 2k on interest ...
figure the cash was getting 1% (cause interest rates REALLY suck, plus exchange rates ...)

what is that? 200k in cash?
and yah, what a tard

Irrelevant.
According to TFA what was not disclosed was the INTEREST, not the principle.
And it was not disclosed in a financial doc to the government, not the IRS.
Nice try.

He missed 0.0068% (approximately) of his income. History's greatest monster.

He needs to learn from Rangel how to not report huge chunks of income to the IRS and get away with it.

Hey Romney, if you need help getting rid of some of that extra cash, I'd be happy to take it off your hands.

Wish I could forget about a shiat load of money!

Heh, now Liberals are upset about mistakes in taxes paid? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

let me laugh harder.

How many in Obama's cabinet have made more egregious mistakes than 1800? Wasn't there just an article on how members of his administration owe nearly 900k in back taxes?

AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 1700 DOLLARS?

What a farking bunch of partisan assholes.

farkING HILARIOUS,

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/shocker-obama-administration-owes-83 3 970-in-back-taxes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= Feed28Say+Anything%29

I think it'd be fun to have a site that ran news stories like this without giving the name and party affiliation of the subject. It'd be nice to hear people's opinions on actual situations before they know whether the guy is history's greatest monster or a saint on the winning side.

Each of the GOP candidates embody what is wrong with America

Ayn Rand's Cervix: Each of the GOP candidates embody what is wrong with America

So vote Republican.

mrshowrules: You know who else stored their money in Switzerland?

70's crooning great Freddie Fender?

And Santorum is surging ahead.

MyRandomName: Heh, now Liberals are upset about mistakes in taxes paid? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA
let me laugh harder.
How many in Obama's cabinet have made more egregious mistakes than 1800? Wasn't there just an article on how members of his administration owe nearly 900k in back taxes?
AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 1700 DOLLARS?
What a farking bunch of partisan assholes.
farkING HILARIOUS,
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/shocker-obama-administration-owes-83 3 970-in-back-taxes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= Feed28Say+Anything%29

Liberals and Democrats in general have no problem with Mitt Romney's finances. Although Mitt Romney does because it is an issue in the Republican Primary race... and that's mainly because Newt Gingrich would rather discuss this than his own psychopathy failings.

MyRandomName: Heh, now Liberals are upset about mistakes in taxes paid? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

let me laugh harder.

How many in Obama's cabinet have made more egregious mistakes than 1800? Wasn't there just an article on how members of his administration owe nearly 900k in back taxes?

AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 1700 DOLLARS?

What a farking bunch of partisan assholes.

farkING HILARIOUS,

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/shocker-obama-administration-owes-83 3 970-in-back-taxes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= Feed28Say+Anything%29

you heard the man, this thread is now about Obama's taxes.

Headso: MyRandomName: Heh, now Liberals are upset about mistakes in taxes paid? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

let me laugh harder.

How many in Obama's cabinet have made more egregious mistakes than 1800? Wasn't there just an article on how members of his administration owe nearly 900k in back taxes?

AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 1700 DOLLARS?

What a farking bunch of partisan assholes.

farkING HILARIOUS,

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/shocker-obama-administration-owes-83 3 970-in-back-taxes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= Feed28Say+Anything%29

you heard the man, this thread is now about Obama's taxes.


To be fair, these are the same guys that have no problem with Newt's philandering because Clinton got a blow job.

Headso: you heard the man, this thread is now about Obama's taxes.

Divert all power to the main deflector!

MyRandomName: Deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect deflect

I hope you're getting paid for this, cause, uh, if you're doing it for free? That's just some sad shiat.

Libtard here.

We're talking about $1500 in interest this guy forgot to include on a disclosure form. If I assume this was reported as properly as his accountant will allow to the IRS, I really don't care. It's not hard to forget about accounts you own; if you've switched banks and not closed the account it's probably still hanging out there in the ether. I probably have a bank account still open in Canada from 2006.

My grandmother was famous in the family for hiding accounts. Up until my grandfather's death in '03, they were still tracking down various safety deposit boxes, investment and checking accounts. Millionaires rarely have one of anything, especially accounts.

Romney was preparing to run for president at the time and he did not want to have it become an issue in the presidential campaign

Of course. He's running for president, for Pete's sake.

it's not just the $1700

The tax returns released by the Romney campaign this week showed that the Ann Romney Blind Trust had reported $1,783 in interest income from a bank account held at UBS in Switzerland in 2010. But interest from the Swiss bank account -- as well as holdings in other offshore investments in the Cayman Islands, Bermudas and Ireland that appear in the trust fund's tax returns -- were not disclosed in Romney's financial disclosure form filed with the Office of Government Ethics last August.

Let's not gloss over those other holdings in those other offshore accounts.

tenpoundsofcheese: And it was not disclosed in a financial doc to the government, not the IRS.

The IRS isn't the government?

For a guy that spends a good bit of time complaining about how 47% of Americans don't pay income tax, he sure spends a lot of his time hiding his money from the public and finding every loophole available to avoid paying income taxes.

As someone that made 25k last year and paid 18-20%, I'm glad he's out there fighting against the 13% he paid on his millions.

Peki: Libtard here.

We're talking about $1500 in interest this guy forgot to include on a disclosure form. If I assume this was reported as properly as his accountant will allow to the IRS, I really don't care. It's not hard to forget about accounts you own; if you've switched banks and not closed the account it's probably still hanging out there in the ether. I probably have a bank account still open in Canada from 2006.

My grandmother was famous in the family for hiding accounts. Up until my grandfather's death in '03, they were still tracking down various safety deposit boxes, investment and checking accounts. Millionaires rarely have one of anything, especially accounts.

My grandmother was famous in the family for hiding money in a mayonnaise jar buried in the back yard. And silver tucked into the walls...and cash stuffed into mattresses. I hope we got it all when we sold the house.

Do you get the feeling that people think that Larry Flynt came by his money more honestly than Mitt Romney, at this point?

Scerpes: Peki: Libtard here.

We're talking about $1500 in interest this guy forgot to include on a disclosure form. If I assume this was reported as properly as his accountant will allow to the IRS, I really don't care. It's not hard to forget about accounts you own; if you've switched banks and not closed the account it's probably still hanging out there in the ether. I probably have a bank account still open in Canada from 2006.

My grandmother was famous in the family for hiding accounts. Up until my grandfather's death in '03, they were still tracking down various safety deposit boxes, investment and checking accounts. Millionaires rarely have one of anything, especially accounts.

My grandmother was famous in the family for hiding money in a mayonnaise jar buried in the back yard. And silver tucked into the walls...and cash stuffed into mattresses. I hope we got it all when we sold the house.

Ha! So you had a Depression baby for a grandmother too. Nice.

/we still have the house, but they weren't known for hiding things on the property

This article is really confusing, not because I am drinking beer, but there is this guy named Mitt who's, like, rich, and then there's this other guy named Malt, who could also be rich, but it seems like he would be a little bit sweeter too, not just a sweeter, more Southern drawl, but more serious, and at the same time I am not drinking beer, but I can just imagine the sweet, sweet Malt filling my senses with his sweet Southern comfort, tempting me to take another sip of this beer that I haven't opened, or even purchased, mind you, and then I think they are the same thing, and that Mitt and Malt have melded and maybe, maybe, my life isn't so bad, and maybe I can wraps my Mitts around and imperial Malt and lighten up and have a beer for the first time, but I have to tell you, I now know what it truly feels like to sin.

Harry_Seldon: Do you get the feeling that people think that Larry Flynt came by his money more honestly than Mitt Romney, at this point?

At least with Larry Flynt, you knew you were going to screwed, and you might actually enjoy it.

Can we stop pretending that this is about Romney forgetting a spot on a form?

First, Romney almost certainly has an army of accountants that go over this. Spots don't get missed. Second, the amount of money in question is insignificant to Romney. This suggests that he likely wasn't trying to hide it because he actually cared about the money, but rather he was trying to hide the fact that he stores money in off-shore accounts, likely because it makes him look bad...like it is right now.

Peki: Scerpes: Peki: Libtard here.

We're talking about $1500 in interest this guy forgot to include on a disclosure form. If I assume this was reported as properly as his accountant will allow to the IRS, I really don't care. It's not hard to forget about accounts you own; if you've switched banks and not closed the account it's probably still hanging out there in the ether. I probably have a bank account still open in Canada from 2006.

My grandmother was famous in the family for hiding accounts. Up until my grandfather's death in '03, they were still tracking down various safety deposit boxes, investment and checking accounts. Millionaires rarely have one of anything, especially accounts.

My grandmother was famous in the family for hiding money in a mayonnaise jar buried in the back yard. And silver tucked into the walls...and cash stuffed into mattresses. I hope we got it all when we sold the house.

Ha! So you had a Depression baby for a grandmother too. Nice.

/we still have the house, but they weren't known for hiding things on the property

Yeah. Depression baby is pretty much spot on. My grandmother started buying life insurance polices a nickel at a time in 1930, when she was 13 years old. When she died last year, we cashed in 5 policies over 75 years old. With the ridiculously low interest rate, they weren't worth a ton, but it was pretty cool to see what you can do if you set your mind to it.

I... have no Swiss bank account.

Peki: I really don't care.

few do, but this story is really more about just moving forward the message that Romney is a sleezy rich guy. As a pr campaign it is just one stroke of the brush.

MyRandomName: Heh, now Liberals are upset about mistakes in taxes paid? HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

let me laugh harder.

How many in Obama's cabinet have made more egregious mistakes than 1800? Wasn't there just an article on how members of his administration owe nearly 900k in back taxes?

AND WE ARE TALKING ABOUT 1700 DOLLARS?

What a farking bunch of partisan assholes.

farkING HILARIOUS,

http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/shocker-obama-administration-owes-83 3 970-in-back-taxes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign= Feed28Say+Anything%29

We're not even talking about unpaid taxes. Romney paid taxes on all the money. He just left it off a disclosure form.

tenpoundsofcheese: He missed 0.0068% (approximately) of his income. History's greatest monster. He needs to learn from Rangel how to not report huge chunks of income to the IRS and get away with it.

Awww... who's a good little lickspittle? Yes you are! Yes you are!

It's just not a Romney thread anymore until TOPC runs in, blustering and distracting. Yes, it's just the $1,700 "accounting error" we're all concerned about here, not the obvious fact that Romney's hiding accounts offshore and obfuscating as much as he possibly can. Christ, but your act is played out.

Oh my God! This changes everything!

Vote for Obama, everyone. He only appoints tax cheats to head the Department of the Treasury.

But this is simply outrageous!!

Crude: Oh my God! This changes everything!

Vote for Obama, everyone. He only appoints tax cheats to head the Department of the Treasury.

But this is simply outrageous!!

Actually he didn't appoint "tax cheats" one person reviewing their tax forms came to a different tax amount then their accountants did. That isn't a "Tax cheat" you idiot. She much more likely was the wrong one instead of all the other accountants being wrong.

But come on guys. Haven't we all forgot about millions of dollars in offshore accounts once or twice?

Scerpes: We're not even talking about unpaid taxes. Romney paid taxes on all the money. He just left it off a disclosure form.

Are you as positive as this as you were saying that Romney didn't get a loop hole to pay less taxes because of carried interest for working for a private equity?


What proof did you base it on? The proof you like Romney and were wrong before and wan to double down or more things you don't know for sure?

Scerpes: We're not even talking about unpaid taxes. Romney paid taxes on all the money. He just left it off a disclosure form.

You know how I know you don't know why people put money in Switzerland and the Cayman Islands?

Translation: Damn it, you plebs were supposed to have dropped out of the race by now so I could disclose it when I was the only candidate polling above single digits!

Barricaded Gunman: the obvious fact that Romney's hiding accounts offshore and obfuscating as much as he possibly can

The interesting thing is that it is the appearance of impropriety that drives the current Romney narrative at as out of touch mega rich who came by his money through 100% legal means only because his cronies corrupted the process to make his wealth accumulation legal.

Personally, I think he doomed his candidacy the second he tried to make $10k "gentleman's" bet during a Presidential debate.

Oh, Newt Gingrich is going to eat him ALIVE over this. Obama too, but Gingrich is wonderful at mud flinging.

The Onion is prophetic: Did Romney really not know that to run for president, you eventually have to turn over your financial data? Hasn't he had like 5 years to think about how he was going to do this?

He thought he could just say "Shut up poor people!" and be done with it. I have meet people like him. They think the same rules do not apply to them that apply to everyone else and they don't think anyone has the audacity to challenge them.

Harry_Seldon: Do you get the feeling that people think that Larry Flynt came by his money more honestly than Mitt Romney, at this point?

Larry Flynt at least earned his fortune. Mitt made his raiding businesses and kicking people out of their jobs.

Imagine how many men and women had to go home one night to tell their kids that, through no fault of their own, they lost their job. And at that moment elsewhere, Mitt Romney was already stalking his next victim.