Wire Creator: Are We Supposed To Congratulate Romney For Paying 13% In Taxes

Posted by | August 16, 2012 23:19 | Filed under: Top Stories


David Simon, creator of The Wire, is outraged that Mitt Romney bragged about paying just over 13% in taxes.

Can we stand back and pause a short minute to take in the spectacle of a man who wants to be President of The United States, who wants us to seriously regard him as a paragon of the American civic ideal, declaiming proudly and in public that he has paid his taxes at a third of the rate normally associated with gentlemen of his economic benefit.

Stunning.

Am I supposed to congratulate this man? Thank him for his good citizenship? Compliment him for being clever enough to arm himself with enough tax lawyers so that he could legally minimize his obligations?

Thirteen percent. The last time I paid taxes at that rate, I believe I might still have been in college.

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