Latest prediction from the Washington Post, Obama with 290 electoral college votes.
GOP Closing Statement for 2012 Elections: “We’re strongly opposed to FEMA, health care and generally helping people, but we’re basically O.K. with rape.”
Rmoney is a tax evader
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/05/mitt-romney-taxes-netherlands_n_2077754.html
Mitt Romney’s Bain Capital Dodged $102 Million In Taxes By Using Dutch Tax Loophole, Newspaper Writes
Bain Capital evaded about €80 million (or $102 million) in taxes by using a financial loophole in the Netherlands, according to a HuffPost translation of an article in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant Monday.
De Volkskrant and the website Follow the Money claim that by routing its 2004 investments in the Irish pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott through the Netherlands, Bain was able to dodge dividends and capital gains taxes. Financial adviser Jos Peters estimates that the loophole allowed Bain to save about $102 million.
In 2009, 4 years after investing in Warner Chilcott, Bain moved the company’s seat from Bermuda to the Netherlands to evade possible stricter tax laws on the island, De Volkskrant explains.
Radio Netherlands Worldwide summarized what happened next:[indent]Then two years ago, Bain registered its interest in Warner Chilcott with the private Dutch company Alter Domus, which provides administrative services for multinational corporations and investment funds. If a Dutch company owns more than five percent of the shares in another company, then that other company is exempt from paying taxes on all capital gains.
Through exemptions like that and a host of other complicated tax treaties, the Netherlands offers huge tax breaks to companies like Bain, which is reported to have evaded 80 million euros in dividend taxes by running through the Netherlands.[/indent]
“We are world champion in participants exemptions,” Dutch financial adviser Jos Peters told De Volkskrant.
Follow The Money explained that Mitt Romney had left Bain in 1999 to run the Olympics in Salt Lake City, but his retirement package allowed him to participate in Bain deals and thus share in the profits. (It’s also not clear that he did, in fact, leave in 1999.)
Jesse Frederik, who wrote the article in De Volkskrant, clarified in a comment to the The Political Wire:[indent]Just to be clear: Romney didn’t avoid $80 million in Irish dividend withholding taxes, but a Bain fund he invests in. The Bain fund also avoided an unknown amount (probably tens of millions) of Irish capital gains tax. Romney received $2,1 million in dividends from the fund in 2010/2011 and $5,5 million in capital gains.[/indent]
Bain’s tax move is widely enough used in the corporate world, noted one Reddit user[/url], that it’s been given a name: “Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich.” The Redditer flagged a [url=“http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/28/business/Double-Irish-With-A-Dutch-Sandwich.html”]New York Times infographic that explains how the tax avoidance strategy is implemented.
They’re strongly opposed to both FEMA and females.
I took a lump on Obama 2/9 and have a piece on Florida 13/8. Am still looking at Iowa, new hampshire and Virginia
Florida will go with Romney?
It would be awful if those evil Republicans stole the election.
The lawyers are on the case already in Florida.
Well certainly if the voting system used in Venezuela were in use in the US, there would be no such worries about anybody stealing any election. It is only the best system in the world, according to the Carter Center.
Whereas the US is up there with likes of Zimbabwe in terms of election fraud
Im not sure really but there is some fishy stuff going on about the early voting , I was watching Fox just so i get a balance on all the media and they were saying that in nevada i believe many folk wil have mailed in votes and will then go to the polling station and try to vote again, thsi apparently causes consternation, long delays and queues and as a result many wil not get to vote as time is been wasted on this… also they noted that the UN has requested election observors to be placed in some states , anyway Fox are extremely oposed to this and the bloke in the studio stated that “no guy from kazakstan will tell an american citizen what he can and cannot do”,.,… this is bang on however if some fella is coming in to vote twice i wonder what the guy from kazakstan will say…
I have a mate in Az who is over there working on an L1 visa ( foreign worker , non citizen) , his mobile is been called repeatedly by the Romney campaign team and he has recived mail with his name on it to his house from the Republicans only, id wonder if he showed up at a polling station with the documents how it would go for him… Now i know Az will be a Red state regardless but when you see stuff like this going on, and when you hear dirty fuckers like Sheldon Adelson on behalf of Bibi Netanyahu have donated 500 million USD to the republican campaign team ( not just to pay Kev to print out flyers i presume) , i do wonder if there will be a few twists yet…
Id imagine a few polling station will close early in Florida today or else will only have limited polling booths so more than a few black lads will be left outside while someone else is in the back completing their voting ticket, Fox reckon itll take 10 days !! to tally the votes there as there " may be delays in mail from iraq", this is far from over i think
that’s already being decided id imagine, i believe Romney will edge Florida
The company who own the voting machines in Ohio have clear ties to Romney’s son. Pennsylvania Republicans are trying to get enough black voters struck off the register so they can steal that state.
I was reading yesterday that 67% of supporters of the far-right National Front in France would vot for Obama. That’s how far right the Republicans are. Because they are one horse in a two-horse race, media generally see fit to give them a veneer of respectability that they shouldn’t do. In reality their policies are well to the right of the BNP.
it would be wise to buy shares in Haliburton now coz if the republicans win this Haliburton and Dick Cheney will just take over completly what is left of the Iraqi oil contract and take control of the Iranian oil after the blow the shit out of that place in a few months… They will also hire fucking anyone to work with them and the money is phenomenal if a few on here are out of work
I have heard through my sources that The Sun have prepared an “Obama wins” frontpage.
Phone tapping taken to a whole new level
YKIB
The level of vote tampering engaged in by the Republicans is a scandal. A difficult thing for the media to cover of course because it throws the legitimacy of the whole exercise into question.
Has Mitt got any chance?