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  Mitt Romney is looking rather beleagured right now about him paying this miserable 15% tax...looking squeemish, looking embarassed, as well he might. Its the voters out there who dont like it. Romney knows in his heart he is not one of those poor honest sods out there, one of those guys he is asking to vote for him right now, and the wider poor honest sods of the non Republican persuasion who he will be asking to vote for him in the time ahead.
  
  Here's the odd thing...the worker on the shop floor pays out 35%..and across the US right now home grown economics are in a bad way, so the 35% is needed. What in theory if they all had acces to slick lawyers and all paid the 15%..what mess then?
  
  Of course that wont happen, Im just pipe-dreaming there for a minute. Romney, he of the super- rich, can afford the slick lawyers that enables him to pay just 15%, but he certainly has not captured the moral high ground on this. The guys on the factory floor are paying his share of taxes to help keep the nation running....not the guy who wants to be President. He chooses not to.
  
  BarryW would argue that thats fine. But ...but ..its not a good thing to have on your CV if you are running for high office. 'One thing for the people, another for me'...sayeth Romney when he tucks in under the duvet in the wee hours.

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