{"id":14486,"date":"2012-09-24T17:39:58","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:39:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-09-24T17:39:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T17:39:58","slug":"the_left_s_new_romney_tax_narrative_he_paid_too_much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/09\/24\/the_left_s_new_romney_tax_narrative_he_paid_too_much\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left\u2019s New Romney Tax Narrative: He Paid Too Much"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: We go to Oklahoma City. It\u2019s Duane. Duane, great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you. I\u2019m well.<\/p>\n

RUSH: (pause) That\u2019s wonderful. Welcome to the program.<\/p>\n

CALLER: (chuckles) I\u2019d like to talk with you about how I feel it\u2019s unfair that the richer folks don\u2019t pay — uh, richer folks pay lower amounts of taxes than middle class folks.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They do?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lower amounts of taxes?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Lower percentages.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

RUSH: Lower percentages. Okay, well, go ahead.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, Mitt Romney\u2019s a good example. The last two years he\u2019s made about $21 million, plus his Cayman Island accounts, and he\u2019s only paid between 13% and 15% taxes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Did he break the law?<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, he didn\u2019t break the law. In fact, um, you know, the law was… The tax law was primarily passed by Bush. But, no, he did not break the law.<\/p>\n

RUSH: The tax law was passed primarily by Bush? Have you seen how big the US tax code is? One man couldn\u2019t possibly have written all that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ha ha! O-okay. George Bush plus many helpers wrote the tax law.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Actually, you know, members of Congress — Republicans, Democrats, lawyers, all kinds of people — have written the tax code for years, and it keeps being added to and added to. They\u2019re all rich guys writing the tax code. They\u2019re all rich guys, Democrats and Republicans writing the tax code.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. Well, your point… They are called “the Bush tax cuts” for some reason. The, uh… The fact is that although your taxes are, I believe, not published —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but Romney\u2019s paying capital gains on most of his income.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not earned income. He\u2019s paying capital gains.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And capital gains are not taxed by Social Security, which is the hidden tax on America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, because the reason the capital gains rate is low is because it\u2019s the second time that income is taxed. It\u2019s taxed once when you earn it, then you invest it. And if you show a profit, that\u2019s the second tax on it. You\u2019ve already paid Social Security on it before you invest it and then get a return on it or not. But you know what a lot of people are missing here with this Romney business is that the Republicans all said, “Mitt, you gotta get those tax returns out there! You gotta get \u2019em out there! You gotta put this issue to bed, Mitt.”<\/p>\n

So now he has and now look! It hasn\u2019t been put to bed. You have naysayers. It\u2019s not the point. He was never gonna be able to put this to bed. Harry Reid! You know, you ought to be calling Harry Reid, Duane. He\u2019s the guy that\u2019s gotta explain something. He said Romney hasn\u2019t paid any taxes. And then add Romney\u2019s charitable donations to what he\u2019s paid in taxes. Compare that to Biden or Obama, and I ask you: “Who\u2019s the more generous man, and who is really the more charitable man — and who really has given up more of his income combined in charity and taxes?”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Romney by far.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Our buddy Duane in Oklahoma City: When it comes to Romney\u2019s taxes, Duane, you need to get a new talking point or newer talking points out there. The complaint today is that Romney paid too much in taxes to make himself look good. I kid you not! I want to take you back. I remember when Harry Reid claimed that he had a source <\/a>at Bain Capital that said Romney hadn\u2019t paid any taxes at all. He wouldn\u2019t offer any proof, and then he said, “I\u2019ve had a second person tell me!”<\/p>\n

Who?<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

“I\u2019m not telling you. I\u2019m not gonna reveal my sources. I\u2019m a senator!”<\/p>\n

So that begot a bunch of worrywarts on our side going on television. It\u2019s the same crowd. They said, “Mitt, release the taxes and be done with this. Release \u2019em. Give \u2019em what they want and put it behind you,” and Romney was right to hold firm. He said, “They don\u2019t care about my taxes. They want reams and reams of documents so they can look at things, get some numbers, take \u2019em out of context, and lie about them.”<\/p>\n

He was exactly right. So time passes, Romney eventually releases some tax returns, and lo and behold, Romney\u2019s right! The left starts picking at them. So now that Harry Reid has been exposed as an outright liar, the meme is that all this time (this is what they want you to believe) Romney has been fudging his tax returns and finagling it to make it look like he paid more than he had to just to disprove what Harry Reid said.<\/p>\n

Now, how many of you have the ability to do that? After you file your tax returns with the IRS, how many of you have the ability to go back in there and change \u2019em? That can\u2019t be done! But there he was yesterday talking about this. Let me see if we have it. Well, I have the sound bite of this. Da-da-da-da-da-da-da. It\u2019ll take me awhile there, folks, to go through the pages. Axelrod, Axelrod, Axelrod, Axelrod. Yep, grab sound bite number 23.<\/p>\n

This is yesterday on This Week with George Stephanopoulos, and Axelrod is claiming that Romney paid more than he had to in order make himself look good.<\/p>\n

AXELROD: I don\u2019t think anybody else would define it as a good week, but it was an enlightening week. The week began with Governor Romney, uh, basically slandering 47% of America <\/a>saying that they were, uh, you know, hooked on dependency, didn\u2019t pay their taxes, and so on. Uh, and at the end of the week we saw him manipulating his own tax returns to try and plump up his portion of, uh, taxes to — to 14%.<\/p>\n

STEPHANOPOULOS: You\u2019re talking about not taking the charitable deduction?<\/p>\n

AXELROD: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Not taking the charitable deduction. The charitable deduction\u2019s 35%.<\/line><\/p>\n

Anyway, this is where we\u2019ve gotten to. Now the complaint is different. That\u2019s why, Duane, when you call the next show, you gotta get on the talking points that Axelrod and the Obama crowd want you on. Romney paid too much. So it\u2019s not that Romney didn\u2019t pay. That\u2019s off the charts now. That\u2019s gone. Now it\u2019s that he paid too much. That\u2019s right. “[W]e saw him manipulating his own tax return to try and plump up his portion of taxes to 14%. Two months ago on your own show he said that anybody who didn\u2019t take the deductions they were owed wasn\u2019t qualified to be president. Well, I guess he\u2019s not qualified because that\u2019s exactly what he did last week to try and get his number up from nine or ten percent to 14%.”<\/p>\n

Wait a minute! It was 0%!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

We were all operating under the theory that Romney didn\u2019t pay any taxes. That\u2019s what Harry Reid said. Somebody asked Harry Reid about it. (whispering) “Well, he\u2019s been cheating. He\u2019s obviously been changing his tax return.” I don\u2019t know who can do this. How do you manipulate your tax returns after the fact? How does anybody do this? Romney paid too much? When did that become a fraud?<\/p>\n

I thought the rich people were supposed to pay more!<\/p>\n

I thought rich people were supposed to give all their money to Bill Gates or write a bigger check to the government. Isn\u2019t that what\u2019s supposed to happen for the rich now? Yes it is. Buffett and all these rich guys are pledging to give their money to Gates and his malaria charity to basically buy mosquito nets. (It\u2019s called DDT if you really want to wipe out malaria.) I find this hilarious. We go from “Romney didn\u2019t pay any taxes!” to now “Romney paid too much!” Now he had to go in there, finagle, and not take the charitable deduction.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t win with these people, and exactly that was said before Romney released these returns. Shouldn\u2019t he be praised for not taking the charitable deduction? Shouldn\u2019t he be praised for sending money to the government? We\u2019re told the rich ought to either be doing that or giving their money away to charity, Bill Gates or whoever. The AP headline on this: “Romney Gives Democrats Support for Claim He Manipulated Tax Deductions for Political Purposes.”<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you, the corruption that\u2019s taken place in the media… You know, I was thinking about this the other day. There are a lot of people who ask, “What would Walter Cronkite think of what the media has become today<\/a>? What does Brokaw think? What would John Chance\u2019or think?” They\u2019d be happy as they could be! This is exactly what they\u2019ve always wanted! If Cronkite could have been as open about how radically liberal he was in his day, he would have done it.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re seeing here is what you get when the left totally takes over an institution, and they\u2019ve taken it over at the J school level. Everybody coming out of J school is a dyed-in-the-wool, propagandized liberal. They have been indoctrinated; they haven\u2019t educated. They\u2019re just Democrats, liberals with bylines<\/a>. In fact, these people, this is what they think normal is. There is no conservatism. That\u2019s some freak oddity, like at the carnival.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the same way Obama has been taught; the same way he was reared, brought up, mentored, what have you. The journalism schools have been taken over by the radical left decades ago, years ago. You can watch these young editors and reporters coming out. They\u2019re the product of their education, pure and simple. So what does Brokaw think? Brokaw\u2019s clapping his hands and going, “Right on!”<\/p>\n

So would Peter Jennings be and so would Cronkite. This is what they all were. There wasn\u2019t some golden age of media where there was rampant, pure objectivity. Maybe, maybe in World War II. Maybe. That was the last war I think the media actually was on America\u2019s side rather than hiding behind, “Well, you know, we can\u2019t pick sides; we\u2019re in the media.” I\u2019ll never forget Bernard Shaw over with John Holloman. I\u2019ll never forget it. They were in the al-Rashid Hotel. This is during the first Gulf War.<\/p>\n

We started bombing, and they were in hotel, and the hotel\u2019s being targeted while they\u2019re reporting so they gotta get out of there. So they get out of there, and we bring \u2019em back home, and the CIA or somebody wanted to debrief \u2019em about the Iraqis, the enemy, and Bernard says, “No, I\u2019m a journalist. I can\u2019t divulge what I saw. I can\u2019t pick sides.” I\u2019m sitting here and I\u2019m incredulous. Where do you think the library of your freedom is, pal? Where do you think you have the freedom to be a journalist? It\u2019s this country. Our First Amendment guarantees free speech.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re in a constitutionally protected job.<\/p>\n

You don\u2019t choose sides?<\/p>\n

In other words, you don\u2019t care if the Iraqis win this thing, that\u2019s fine with you? And besides, this “don\u2019t choose sides” bunch is a bunch of crap anyway. They choose sides every day, to the Democrat Party. Stacked deck, bunch of cheaters. It is what it is. Can\u2019t choose sides, my rear end. Shrinking, by the way. But, folks, this is what the J schools have done. Brokaw\u2019s ecstatic. Brokaw\u2019s not embarrassed at MSNBC. He\u2019s jealous that he couldn\u2019ta worked there in his day and taken the gloves off. I never thought I\u2019d see the day when Brokaw wishes he could be Al Sharpton, but that day may have arrived, strange as it may sound. <\/p>\n

<\/a>So we\u2019ve gotten to this point now where the AP says: “Romney gives Democrats support for claim he manipulated tax deductions for political purposes.” What? The first claim was he didn\u2019t pay any. Now he\u2019s paid too much. You cannot win. You cannot satisfy these people, and therefore it is a mistake to try unless your objective is to illustrate who they are. But if you\u2019re really trying to please \u2019em, if you\u2019re really trying to get their approval, if you\u2019re really trying to shut \u2019em up, you never will and it\u2019s foolish to try. Look at the charitable donations. Romney\u2019s taxes are all legit. Nobody\u2019s claiming he broke the law. They\u2019re saying he paid more than he should have. And, again, isn\u2019t that what we\u2019ve been hearing rich people should do? It\u2019s the patriotic thing to do, for crying out loud. <\/p>\n

You compare Romney\u2019s charitable donations with Biden\u2019s or Obama\u2019s, and even make allowances for income differences, the percentages don\u2019t lie. There\u2019s no comparison. The combined amount of money that Romney paid in taxes and gave away, in other words, the amount of money Romney earned that he let others have or was forced to pay in taxes dwarfs what these other so-called big-hearted, truly compassionate, lovers of all mankind type people do. It\u2019s profound. It is the height of corruption and I\u2019m sitting aghast. I\u2019m in one of those rare moments where I don\u2019t have the words to explain what this is. How do you go from accusing him of paying no taxes and breaking the law and committing fraud and all this, to paying too much and manipulating tax returns?<\/p>\n

I have never heard a liberal yet in my life complain about somebody paying too much in taxes or giving too much to charity, for any reason. I\u2019ve never heard it. The Kennedys didn\u2019t give this kind of money to charity. They took it from other people and made it look like they were giving the money. They don\u2019t do this. All these great-hearted, big compassionate liberals never give their own money away, unless it is for tax-deductible reasons or PR reasons or what have you. Romney was doing all this when nobody was looking. And that\u2019s the real definition of character. It\u2019s what you do when nobody\u2019s paying attention. It\u2019s what you do when nobody\u2019s looking. Biden, when he was candidate for president, I believe, $995 there are to charity. Gore one year, $235 bucks to charity, Algore. Your global warming god, Rachel. Well, you know, Rachel bought Gore\u2019s movie \u2019til I got hold of her. I continue to tease her about that. But $235 bucks to charity. I mean, people tip their doorman more than that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I get an e-mail from a friend of mine after Duane from Oklahoma City. He said, “Rush, how come these libs never call you and attack Clinton or Obama? I mean, don\u2019t they take tax deductions? How come nobody\u2019s worried about what their tax rates are?” There\u2019s a good answer for this. It\u2019s a great question, and there\u2019s two answers. A, rich liberals are allowed. If you are a liberal, you can be as rich as you want. There won\u2019t be any attack on you because it is liberalism that matters. But, just to make sure and for insurance purposes, why do you think Clinton always says, (imitating Clinton) “I don\u2019t need a tax cut.<\/a> Rich people like me, I mean, I don\u2019t need what Romney\u2019s offering. I\u2019m happy to pay more.” Well, you\u2019ve just inoculated yourself then, man. Fine and dandy. <\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a guy, former president, acknowledging how rich he is thinking he\u2019s not paying enough in taxes? He\u2019s just inoculated himself from criticism. Why do you think Warren Buffett and Gates run around talking about: “We need to give more money to charity. I\u2019m gonna give all this money to charity. Yeah, I think people are undertaxed.” Because they want to keep the hordes away from their money. Gates, Buffett, these guys, don\u2019t want the Duanes of Oklahoma City targeting them. And the way you do that is to claim that you\u2019d be happy to pay more in taxes, to claim that you don\u2019t think you\u2019re taxed enough, and to come out and say, “I think we ought to double the death tax. In fact, I don\u2019t think people ought to keep anything once they die.” You say that and the Duanes of Oklahoma City will leave you alone. You can have as big a house and as many houses as you want, and you\u2019ll be applauded. <\/line><\/p>\n

So when the hordes decide that they\u2019re gonna start attacking people that have money, go get it from \u2019em, they\u2019ve leave Gates alone, leave Clinton alone, leave Obama alone \u2019cause these people, rather than inspiring others to do what they\u2019ve done and rather than describe how the creation of wealth propels an economy and thus a society, rather than do that, what these guys do is go the liberal route and start talking liberalism, keep people away from their money. That simple. In Clinton\u2019s case he\u2019s a bit of a braggart, too, I mean, he wants everybody to know how he is, but there\u2019s also a strategery behind it. You know, if Romney would come out and say he\u2019s not taxed enough… well, it wouldn\u2019t work for him because they\u2019d say, “Okay, well, then pay more.” <\/p>\n

Folks, it\u2019s liberalism that matters. A loyal liberal can do anything. A loyal liberal can blow up the Pentagon, for crying out loud and get away with it, or try to. A loyal liberal can get away with anything with other liberals, as long as that loyal liberal is liberal and attacks conservatives left and right, spouts the right words, they get away with anything. No, I don\u2019t know that Buffett\u2019s really liberal. He may be. I don\u2019t know. All I know is Buffett would not have anywhere near the money he\u2019s got if he really, really were a card-carrying liberal from the moment he was born. Liberalism inherits this kind of wealth but it doesn\u2019t produce it. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s a Reuters reporter named Pedro da Costa. He tweeted — he\u2019s deleted the tweet now — that Romney\u2019s tax return release was a true sign of desperation, true sign of desperation, Romney\u2019s tax return release. And I guess he\u2019s now deleted the tweet. Why? Why not stand behind that if you really believe it. See, most people are not concerned with Romney, what he does with his money. We\u2019re concerned with what Obama is doing with ours. That\u2019s what this is all about. And it will stay that way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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