If you were wondering what the Candidacy of 1/4-billionaire, Mitt Romney, was all about ...
Let there be no doubt:
Study: Romney tax plan helps wealthiest
upi.com Jan. 5, 2012
U.S. News:
WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 (UPI) -- A tax plan proposed by Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney would cut federal revenue and give large tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans, a study found.
The non-partisan Tax Policy Center in Washington said Thursday Romney's plan would cut the corporate tax rate to 25 percent from the current rate of 35 percent and abolish taxation of long-term capital gains, dividends and interest income for household reporting incomes of less than $200,000, the Los Angeles Times reported.
The former Massachusetts governor would make permanent the federal tax cuts enacted under former President George W. Bush. The cuts are scheduled to expire at the end of 2012. [...]
No doubt, that will be good news for Mitt Romney's Base -- The Billionaire Club, that he one day hopes to join ....
aka ... that pinnacle of the Economic Pyramid -- that Top 1 Percent ... those Corporate-Persons, 'bainly' exporting all those Jobs to all corners of the world ...
wherever they'll work for peanuts ...
Even though the GOP-Daydream promoters, keep selling us the Infomercial that:
You too, can one day Be Rich, like them.
-- It still looks like a very exclusive, Members-only Club to me.
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The Forbes 400 -- The Richest People in America
Rank Name Net Worth Age Residence Source
1 Bill Gates
$59 B 55 Medina, Washington Microsoft
2 Warren Buffett
$39 B 81 Omaha, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway
3 Larry Ellison
$33 B 67 Woodside, California Oracle
4 Charles Koch
$25 B 75 Wichita, Kansas diversified
4 David Koch
$25 B 71 New York, New York diversified
6 Christy Walton
$24.5 B 56 Jackson, Wyoming Wal-Mart
7 George Soros
$22 B 81 Katonah, New York hedge funds
8 Sheldon Adelson
$21.5 B 78 Las Vegas, Nevada casinos
9 Jim Walton
$21.1 B 63 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
10 Alice Walton
$20.9 B 61 Fort Worth, Texas Wal-Mart
11 S. Robson Walton
$20.5 B 67 Bentonville, Arkansas Wal-Mart
12 Michael Bloomberg
$19.5 B 69 New York, New York Bloomberg LP
13 Jeff Bezos
$19.1 B 47 Seattle, Washington Amazon.com
14 Mark Zuckerberg
$17.5 B 27 Palo Alto, California Facebook
15 Sergey Brin
$16.7 B 38 Los Altos, California Google
15 Larry Page
$16.7 B 38 Palo Alto, California Google
17 John Paulson
$15.5 B 55 New York, New York hedge funds
18 Michael Dell
$15 B 46 Austin, Texas Dell
19 Steve Ballmer
$13.9 B 55 Hunts Point, Washington Microsoft
20 Forrest Mars
$13.8 B 80 Big Horn, Wyoming candy
[380 more ... all with a $B, btw ...]
Beware people, for what that Top 0.01 Percent lacks in Numbers, they more than make up for in Influence.
America, behold your Corporate Job Exporters -- in action. Raking it in ... Billion, after Billion ....
Yeah, THEY could certainly use a few MORE Tax Breaks, right about now, right Mitt?
Afterall, They're People Too! ... or so the 1/4-Billionaire Mittster, keeps telling us ...
And all us dreamers know -- A Billion Dollars doesn't go as far as it used to -- what with Campaigns to pay for, and all.
(PS. He's looking for that secret-password, so they might let him into the Club too ... being the Nation's CEO, just might be the ticket, right Mitt? ... ya never know ...)