All They Will Call You Is Self-Deportee

Another day, another unexpected point of agreement with otherwise reprehensible Republican carbuncle Newt Gingrich, now cheerfully bloodying the putative GOP nominee at a Univision-sponsored round table: what a weird, relaxing world Willard Romney inhabits. An Obama-level fantastical world, according to “Moon Miner” Newt (President Obama’s “fantasy” is evidently one Latino voters prefer, incidentally).

Did you hop the roof of a freight train, place your life in the hands of brutal coyotes, or otherwise risk your all and everything to cross the border illegally, only to find you can’t get employment and provide for your family? Just self-deport (which I imagine would go something like this) and reverse the process! You can take a job back home to while away the time while you wait your turn to enter this most greatest nation of all with our collective blessing. Still unsure about whether or how to do it? Here’s a site (H/T Dave Weigel) that can help you take that giant backward step proudly!

Meanwhile, a portion of Mittens’ money somehow has deported itself to pleasant havens like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, though it was all duly declared——-in the years he let us see, anyway. ; - >

Posted by Mrs. Polly on 01/25/12 at 03:09 PM • Permalink

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Well, don’t all talk at once!

Comment by Mrs. Polly on 01/25/12 at 09:33 PM

love the very obscure reference.

Comment by mellowjohn on 01/25/12 at 09:36 PM

I just watched the ‘Gabby Giffords Resigns’ vid and the difference between the two could not be more stark.

On comments I’ve read at other places about Mitt someone is saying he gave away all his inheritance and made his money from nothing but I find that hard to believe.

He received his undergraduate degree from Brigham Young University, and thereafter earned Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration joint degrees from Harvard’s law and business schools.

You have to pay for that, right? So he either got to do it before he gave his inheritance away or it got paid for him, either by family or grants.

Romney entered the management consulting business, which led to a position at Bain & Company, where he eventually served as CEO

How did he enter? Mail room? This appears to be his first job so I doubt he ever worried about losing it ‘cos it took connections to get it in the first place. Can you imagine any of us going for a job as a Management Consultant with no experience in anything (apart from community organising “community, become a Mormon!”) and getting told ‘fantastic, job is yours!’

Not the same as selling tyres and then serving as an elected official.

I just can’t believe the average American thinks this man speaks for them in any way shape or form. If they cut capital gains to zero he’ll get to pay no tax at all. That’s fine if he builds his own roads/sewerage/electricity/water supply to his houses and pays tolls to anywhere he wants to go when it’s been supplied by taxes off others or if he employs his own police/firemen/army but he wouldn’t. He leeches off tax paying citizens.

Oh and the other chestnut I see about him “he’s pays more taxes in dollars than the average American citizen with his 15%” of course he does ‘cos he had millions of dollars to tax. You tax someone that earns 70K a year 100% and Mitt is STILL going to pay more than them. So apparently it’s fair to tax someone earning 70K 100% so they have nothing to live on but he’s being hosed. People who think like this must think he deserves a tax refund ‘cos his dollars out number their dollars.

btw, I meant to ask this. In NZ when you contribute to charity you can only claim 33% of what you contributed as a deduction (one of the few we can claim) but it appears in the US you can take the whole lot off. Is that how it is?