Mitt Romney has written an editorial. It should prompt a national discussion. It won't.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I can't get too concerned over what you thought.

The minorities used ID to register and then lost the ability to provide them to vote?

Was that because they're as dumb as you are?

 

[pknopp]

The minorities used ID to register and then lost the ability to provide them to vote?

Was that because they're as dumb as you are?

I'm not the one rambling mindlessly.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

I'm not the one rambling mindlessly.

You've done it your entire life; you stopped in the last 10 minutes?

Doubtful.

 

[leftwinger]

And anyone that does this should definitely go to jail for voter fraud, right?

Yes. Illegals too. But who can find them after an election?

One of the questions (I saw it once) is I swear am a US citizen and resided here 30 days.

NFO helps them use shelter address, dissappear by election day. No ID is OK, no proof citenship. No fixed address, homeless etc.

Illegals don't even know what they sign up for. They get a stack of EBT cards. Then they go to another state and repeat it for more EBT. All proven.

Ghost voter mail ballots sent out harvested. Muted to drop boxes.

 

[ThisIsMe]

Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me​

In 2012, political ads suggested that some of my policy proposals, if enacted, would amount to pushing grandma off a cliff. Actually, my proposals were intended to prevent that very thing from happening.

Today, all of us, including our grandmas, truly are headed for a cliff: If, as projected, the Social Security Trust Fund runs out in the 2034 fiscal year, benefits will be cut by about 23 percent. The government will need trillions of dollars to make up the shortfall. When lenders refuse to loan the money unless they are paid much higher interest rates, economic calamity will almost certainly ensue. Alternatively, the government could print more money, inducing hyperinflation that devalues the national debt — along with your savings.

Typically, Democrats insist on higher taxes, and Republicans insist on lower spending. But given the magnitude of our national debt as well as the proximity of the cliff, both are necessary. DOGE took a slash-and-burn approach to budget cutting and failed spectacularly. Europe demonstrates that exorbitant taxes without spending restraint crushes economic vitality and thus speeds how fast the cliff arrives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opinion/romney-tax-the-rich.html

The title applies to his belief the $176K income cap for social security taxes should be done away with.

I long opposed increasing the income level on which FICA employment taxes are applied (this year, the cap is $176,100). No longer; the consequences of the cliff have changed my mind.

The largest source of additional tax revenues is also probably the most compelling for fairness and social stability. Some call it closing tax code loopholes, but the term “loopholes” grossly understates their scale. “Caverns” or “caves” would be more fitting.

He goes on to say the "step up in basis" capital gains tax treatment for wealthy estates should be amended. Meaning, if you inherit an asset for which the owner would have faced a capital gains tax upon its disposal if the owner did so while still alive, you shouldn't be able to inherit the asset tax free.

The thread is not intended to start a debate on the details of Romney's recommendations. Rather, it is to highlight the impending shortfall in the SS trust requires the nation to have a serious debate over what to do about it. And soon.

So too we need to have a discussion about the debt, during which both higher taxes and lower spending are on the table. There are still more.

Many have said our elected representatives have failed us with the rise of partisanship leading to paralyzing gridlock. The result being critical issues are not being effectively addressed. I say we have failed ourselves by not electing serious and informed officials to represent us. A reflection of "we the people," who spend too much time entertaining ourselves and not enough learning about fact based solutions to problems that will bring this republic down if they are not resolved in an intelligent, thoughtful, forward looking way.

If Romney, or any other person feels that way, they can lead by example and cut a check to the government for 80% of their fortune

 

[Marener]

Yes. Illegals too. But who can find them after an election?

One of the questions (I saw it once) is I swear am a US citizen and resided here 30 days.

NFO helps them use shelter address, dissappear by election day. No ID is OK, no proof citenship. No fixed address, homeless etc.

So RFK Jr should be behind bars

 

[ThisIsMe]

Mitt Romney: Tax the Rich, Like Me​

In 2012, political ads suggested that some of my policy proposals, if enacted, would amount to pushing grandma off a cliff. Actually, my proposals were intended to prevent that very thing from happening.

Today, all of us, including our grandmas, truly are headed for a cliff: If, as projected, the Social Security Trust Fund runs out in the 2034 fiscal year, benefits will be cut by about 23 percent. The government will need trillions of dollars to make up the shortfall. When lenders refuse to loan the money unless they are paid much higher interest rates, economic calamity will almost certainly ensue. Alternatively, the government could print more money, inducing hyperinflation that devalues the national debt — along with your savings.

Typically, Democrats insist on higher taxes, and Republicans insist on lower spending. But given the magnitude of our national debt as well as the proximity of the cliff, both are necessary. DOGE took a slash-and-burn approach to budget cutting and failed spectacularly. Europe demonstrates that exorbitant taxes without spending restraint crushes economic vitality and thus speeds how fast the cliff arrives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/opinion/romney-tax-the-rich.html

The title applies to his belief the $176K income cap for social security taxes should be done away with.

I long opposed increasing the income level on which FICA employment taxes are applied (this year, the cap is $176,100). No longer; the consequences of the cliff have changed my mind.

The largest source of additional tax revenues is also probably the most compelling for fairness and social stability. Some call it closing tax code loopholes, but the term “loopholes” grossly understates their scale. “Caverns” or “caves” would be more fitting.

He goes on to say the "step up in basis" capital gains tax treatment for wealthy estates should be amended. Meaning, if you inherit an asset for which the owner would have faced a capital gains tax upon its disposal if the owner did so while still alive, you shouldn't be able to inherit the asset tax free.

The thread is not intended to start a debate on the details of Romney's recommendations. Rather, it is to highlight the impending shortfall in the SS trust requires the nation to have a serious debate over what to do about it. And soon.

So too we need to have a discussion about the debt, during which both higher taxes and lower spending are on the table. There are still more.

Many have said our elected representatives have failed us with the rise of partisanship leading to paralyzing gridlock. The result being critical issues are not being effectively addressed. I say we have failed ourselves by not electing serious and informed officials to represent us. A reflection of "we the people," who spend too much time entertaining ourselves and not enough learning about fact based solutions to problems that will bring this republic down if they are not resolved in an intelligent, thoughtful, forward looking way.

If Romney, or any other person feels that way, they can lead by example and cut a check to the government for 80% of their fortune.

See, he will say something like that, and his next move should have been to cut a ten million dollar check to the government. No, he wants to get noticed, but not really put his money where his mouth is.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

And yet we don't.

Lawsuit after lawsuit. Audit after audit. Investigation after investigation.

Next to nothing.

The Georgia scandal proves you wrong.

 

[pknopp]

The Georgia scandal proves you wrong.

Where Trump threatened election officials?

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

And anyone that does this should definitely go to jail for voter fraud, right?

“I’m gonna bring up one or two individuals on the right that did this while ignoring the 300k votes in Georgia because in a dishonest ****”-You

 

[Marener]

“I’m gonna bring up one or two individuals on the right that did this while ignoring the 300k votes in Georgia because in a dishonest ****”-You

Just some random guy…

..who is in Trump’s cabinet.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

Where Trump threatened election officials?

Georgia 2020: 315,000 Votes Were Uncertified, a Serious Violation - www.independentsentinel.com

In 2020, tabulator tapes on 315,000 votes in Georgia did not have three signatures as required by law. They were uncertified. This is a big deal. The votes were in violation of the rules. The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a...

www.independentsentinel.com

How dare Donald Trump threatened people who are actively breaking the law?.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

Just some random guy…

..who is in Trump’s cabinet.

Sure is pal just like Trump was a Russian asset and a friend with Jeffrey Epstein, take your medication schizo.

 

[pknopp]

Georgia 2020: 315,000 Votes Were Uncertified, a Serious Violation - www.independentsentinel.com

In 2020, tabulator tapes on 315,000 votes in Georgia did not have three signatures as required by law. They were uncertified. This is a big deal. The votes were in violation of the rules. The admission came during a Dec. 9 hearing before the Georgia State Election Board (SEB) stemming from a...

www.independentsentinel.com

How dare Donald Trump threatened people who are actively breaking the law?.

How many votes were illegal?

 

[Marener]

Sure is pal just like Trump was a Russian asset and a friend with Jeffrey Epstein, take your medication schizo.

RFK Jr has been living in California for decades but claims his primary residence is a spare room at friend’s house in New York and votes in their elections.

 

[Lockback]

Mitt Romney is such a loathsome piece of swine, I wouldn't/couldn't read anything written by him.
He's everything wrong with America in one phony, slick package.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

How many votes were illegal?

Read the ******* link you sub 80 IQ mongoloid.

 

[Dagoth-Ur]

Mitt Romney is such a loathsome piece of swine, I wouldn't/couldn't read anything written by him.
He's everything wrong with America in one phony, slick package.

And that’s why we hate him he fights for everyone, but the people that he should be fighting for he’s loyal to every other country, but his own every other in group, but his own and so willing and wanting to be liked by the people that utterly despise him.

 

[Lockback]

RFK Jr has been living in California for decades but claims his primary residence is a spare room at friend’s house in New York and votes in their elections.

You know this how? Did you read it in Salon or see it on MS NOW?

 

[pknopp]

Read the ******* link you sub 80 IQ mongoloid.

I did. Nowhere did it state anyone voted illegaly.