...a big red flag that they are welfare kings

So says Ecclesiastes 10: 16- 20

“Woe to you, O land whose king was a servant and whose princes feast in the morning. Blessed are you, O land whose king is of noble birth and whose princes eat at a proper time-- for strength and not for drunkenness. If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house leaks. A feast is made for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything. Do not revile the king even in your thoughts, or curse the rich in your bedroom, because a bird of the air may carry your words, and a bird on the wing may report what you say.”

what one would expect a king to say. In this case, Solomon, or one of his PR ghost scribes who wrote it nearly a millennium before there were any Christians.

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)

They should not be in Congress, imo. It doesn't matter if they are Democrat or Republican.

I wish I could find an article where it showed how much members of congress net worth increased after spending a few years in office.

I can't remember the article.

If you're not a millionaire when you go in , you become one while sitting in office.

Four in the Pen. He was seldom, if ever, wrong, about politics.

Although I might have doubts about Feinstein and a couple of others? It's not about being wealthy per se. It's about taking your wealth and putting it overseas to escape paying taxes to your own country.

they don't handle it them selves.

If we were to dig deep , they all have tax shelters set up.

It matters that you are Responsibility and pay taxes on the money you make.
It matters if you expect Others to pay taxes, yet you don't.
It matters if you put your money where your mouth is. In the US.
It matters if you are running for POTUS and we are in a dire financial crisis.
It matters where you put your money.

If you want to REALLY piss-off a conservative and leave them literally babbling, ask them one question: Imagine if candidate Barrack Obama had millions in Switzerland and Caribbean Islands and refused to release 10 years of his tax returns? How would Fox "News" have covered that story?

then use "Believe in America" as your campaign slogan when you obviously do not.

That is some real dishonest disconnect. Almost a blatant in your face about it to the voters.

and to what extent they are morally questionable. I assume most people and especially highly ambitious politicians are morally questionable - so that is purely a question of a matter of degrees. Whether they have foreign bank accounts or engage in kinky s and m sex does not personally concern me. But if the candidate is someone I definitely do not want elected - I have no problems using that against them if it can help defeat them and elect someone I would prefer..

There's no way his massive overseas investments shows he believes in America at all, in fact, that shows that he doesn't believe in it.

No....HELL no!..

What are you hiding?

got to be religion...............

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That's exclusionary right there. No economic patriotism at all.

It is a insult to our country for a politician to have his money in offshore accounts.

send their Corp.'s jobs, overseas.

I think the term "economic patriotism" is apt.
The country has been SO "f"ing good to people like Mittons and what does he and the Koch's and Andelson and Limbaugh and Welch, etc. do? Tear down the system and accuse the President for their perceived/invented problems.

If so, then

60-million voters sided with such idiocy, in '04....And 57-million did, in '08 election

That makes a difference, don't you think?

Actually support a President with the mindset of "yey, it's okay to rape our Capitalistic Democracy by allowing the wealthy to have overseas acct's for avoiding taxes, including on their Corp.'s when they send jobs overseas" ...as those voters are the reason America has a broken Right Wing/will never soar like an Eagle.

vilified tax cheats and loopholes.

It's one thing to run on a platform of invest overseas, shelter your wealth and don't pay taxes if that's what you do. But to lie and fraudulently run on principles that you do the exact opposite of is... psychotic.

And that describes Rmoney.

Would make a great billboard along with your questions about WMR.

I would not use the holding of offshore accounts as a disqualifying line in the sand, but as one aspect of a broader picture.

Would you have voted against JFK if he held offshore accounts?
Myself, I would look at what kind of track record they had, what their vision for America's future was, how much of their wealth was in overseas investments, and what those investments were in. I would not use, as an example, a fraction of a candidates wealth invested in Mercedes or Toyota (both of whom have US factories employing US workers) as a disqualifying action. A large investment in South African gold mines, Nigerian oil wells, or Asian sweat-shops I probably would.

He is so clueless that he doesn't see what is wrong with that and that bothers me just as much. He has been running or planning on running for president for well over a decade, probably longer, and he never thought it would be appropriate to "clean house" and bring his money back to the U.S.

For a man who is supposedly so smart, surely he knew his tax returns would become an issue, but he seems to think he is above all that.

The more I learn about the man, it becomes hard to believe he is real. If he were a movie character, no one would believe he could be this close to the Oval Office.

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has be on video a few times saying that he & Romney will close the very loopholes that Romney uses to stash his cash in tax havens. Now Romney says, "That aint happening!"

We desperately need to pass a law that prohibits tax havens.