I wonder if 'Juanita' has a green card or not?

@1 Of course Juanita has a green card; Mitt Romney would never hired illegal immigrants. Oh, wait.. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/on…

Anyways, I thought the real issue was less about taxes and more about mothers being able to *choose* whether they want to work or not. Ann never had to work, not because she's lazy, but because she had the financial stability to stay at home with her children.

For all the family values talk by the GOP, they seem to oppose every policy that would make the lives of mothers and fathers easier: vouchers for daycare, family planning and contraception, funding for early childhood education, universal healthcare, etc.

It's problematic that Ann and Mitt grew up rich because they simply don't know what it is like to grow up poor or even as a middle class American. It doesn't make them bad people, just woefully out of touch.

What @2 said. Props to her for staying home with her kids. i "chose" to stay home with my son until he started preschool. Of course, i was on "welfare" the whole time. Meaning, i lived off of the money that my parents, grandparents & siblings paid into the system. And that was less than $400 per month. i lived poor, but i was there to be a mother to my child.
Now, i know that Romney & most republicans paint me as a mooch. i mean, i did live off of my families taxes. And the Romney's are to be congratulated for paying less taxes than my family, laying off working people to make huge profits, & generally being better, wealthier people than me, & everyone else. i mean, they had 5 kids, i had 1. i used birth control. Because ultimately, i could not support more than 1 child while going to school full time & working. And yes, i made the horrible, morally evil choice to have my son's father die.
But, Ann Romney has worked hard at having her husband fire people to put money in the Romney bank accounts so they could have money to pay for nannies & cooks & housekeepers. That is some hard work! You definitely speak for all hard working women, Ann. Even those stay at home moms who actually have to cook & clean & care for their own offspring. You are a shining star of the downtrodden, multi-millionare spoiled housewives club. Hey! Count me in!

When people talk about the taxes they paid, why do they always use percentages? I just don't see how that's fair - all it does is make the numbers look comparable, when they aren't even in the same universe.

Paul, you said that it wouldn't be fair if you paid 20% of your income and Mitt Romney paid 20% of his income. I agree, but probably not with the same 'reasoning' that you're using. 20% of your income is what, $6,000? And 20% of Romney's income would be what, $6,000,000?

So you do really think that's not enough? If so, what the !@$!@ is wrong with you? You both have the same access to the same roads, to the same legal system, to the same police forces and fire departments and military. Why should we charge him 1,000 times more than you bother to kick in?

I'm sure you're USING a shit-ton more than what you pay for - people like Romney are covering for all the rest of your free shit. But that's not enough for you?

I mean, you can't repair a road or build a bike lane with "20%." It takes dollars, real money. So how many real dollars did you kick in this year, Paul? I don't care if it was 20% of nothing, and neither do the road crews - they need real dollars to do work.

I'm sure that talking in percentages lets you FEEL like you're doing you fair share, that you're contributing just as much as other people, but it's bullshit. Get off your high horse and realize that you're a burden, not a benefit, when it comes to tax discussions.

I had to look it up. If I'm reading this right, the federal budget breaks down to more than $12,000 per person. So if you didn't pay at least that much in federal taxes, you didn't pay your fair share. Someone ELSE is covering for you. And it's STILL not enough for you, and you STILL feel entitled to help yourself to more of their money.

http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/US_per…