Prove it, sir

Romney paid no taxes: Harry Reid

You want to know why I don’t like a lot of politicians: U.S. Senator Harry Reid is a poster boy for my reasons.

A member of the U.S. Senate since 1986, after spending four years in the U.S. House before that, the Senate majority leader says he has it on good authority from somebody he knows at Bain Capital that apparently Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney hasn’t paid any taxes in 10 years and that is why he is not releasing his tax returns.

Ok, Mr. Senator, I have two words for you: Prove it.

In addition, assuming that Romney hasn’t paid taxes on whatever money he earned during that period, Mr. Senator, prove that it was done illegally.

This is why I get so ticked at Democrats this go around (and all those Birthers who question whether President Obama is a natural born U.S. citizen – just get over it). Unless you have proof of something illegal then just shut up with the innuendoes.

I have no doubt that Mr. Romney probably paid the least amount he could legally in federal taxes and, you know what, I don’t blame him. Obviously, Romney can afford to pay top notch tax attorneys and tax accountants to comb through federal tax laws and regulations (all whatever hundreds of thousands of pages that takes) to take advantage of every break that is in them. If you fault him for doing that, then I seriously question your sanity. Nobody, but nobody WANTS to pay more taxes than they absolutely have to and if you do? Well, then that is your choice and therefore your fault.

In addition, Sen. Reid, having spent nearly 30 years in the halls of Congress, you bear some responsibility for that disaster known as the U.S. Tax Code. I have no doubt that you have, during those 30 years, voted for a whole bunch of the various and sundry tax breaks, credits, deductions, exclusions and other foo-for-rah that boggle the human mind.

It is hypocrisy like that make me shake my head in total disgust.

I hate coming to the defense of Romney, but I really am getting tired of the Big Innuendo coming in the current presidential campaign. If there are any grounds for all the alleged illegal conduct by former Massachusetts Gov. Romney then would someone please explain why no warrants have been issued and he hasn’t been arrested.

The “he might be a felon” campaign and now the “he might not have paid any taxes” borders on something coming from sleazy character assassins, like maybe Joseph Goebbels (if you don’t know who he is, look him up) really needs to be treated with the disgust it deserves and those people promoting it should not get anyone’s vote. Some 80 years ago, a group of people voted such character assassins into office and the world paid a rather serious price for it.

Please, I am not saying that either Democrats or the people behind these statements are in anyway equivalent to that earlier mob, just that they appear to be using the same style of tactics.

However, I do reserve the right reframe my opinion if the wealth-envy crowd or the bunch that supports homosexual marriages gets around to busting heads and smashing the property of those who disagree with them. Then, I think circumstances will have changed.