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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRomney considers us “The Help” who really have no business looking at his tax returns
You make Willard Romneys lip curlPosted on July 17, 2012
Charles P. Pierce doesnt think Romneys trying to hide anything by not releasing his tax returns. Pierce thinks Romney considers us The Help who really have no business looking at his tax returns:
Contempt for The Help: Why Romney Won't Give It Up
By Charles P. Pierce
at 10:22AM
It is helpful always to remind yourself that, in the mind of Willard Romney, there are only two kinds of people himself and his family, and The Help. Throughout his career, and especially throughout his brief political career, Romney has treated The Help with a kind of lordly disdain
The Help has no right to go pawing through the family books, giggling at the obvious loopholes and tax dodges, running amok through all the tax shelters, and probably getting their chocolate-y fingerprints all over the pages of the Romney family ledger. And, certainly, those members of The Help in the employ of the president of the United States, who is also part of The Help, have no right to use the nearly comically ostentatious wealth of the Romney as some sort of scrimey political weapon. He does not have to answer to The Help. I mean, jeepers, hes running for office.
This isnt stubbornness. Thats often an acquired trait. What this is, fundamentally, is contempt. Contempt for the process, and contempt for the people who make their living in that process, and contempt for the people whose lives depend on that process. There are rules for The Help with which Willard Romney never has had to abide, and he has no intention of starting now. My dear young fellow, this simply is not done.
the rest:
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/http://underthemountainbunker.com/2012/07/17/mitt-romneys-tax-returns-he-will-not-abide-by-the-same-rules-as-the-help//why-mitt-romney-wont-release-tax-returns-10719962#ixzz20nwtchRy
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Romney considers us “The Help” who really have no business looking at his tax returns (Original Post)
kpete
Jul 2012
OP
CurtEastPoint
(18,663 posts)1. Better link...
rustydog
(9,186 posts)2. dead on right! Romney is acting like a CEO. They can lie, cheat, steal
but when they do it it isn't lying, cheating or stealing, it is Capitalism, it is their birth-right.
We are the peons, those who must "eat cake."
GeorgeGist
(25,323 posts)3. Sounds like he's due for ...
Minny's Chocolate Pie.
Comrade_McKenzie
(2,526 posts)4. Someone make him a chocolate pie. nt