VoteVets’ tens of supporters all fired up to read Romney’s tax returns

This is the most strained logic imagineable, but it is VoteVets, and that’s what we’ve come to love about them.

Some notes:

1) The tax structure and reporting mechanisms are set by Congress. Mitt Romney has never served in the Congress. If you have a problem with the tax laws, why not go after the people that make them instead of the people following them?

2) Soltz: “this is something the public has a right to disclosure on.” Really? Where does that right originate from? I have a right to say that Jon Soltz looks like an uncircumsized penis, and that he looks like he should be enticing kids with candy into his windowless van down by by the river. The First Amendment gives me that right. Now, explain to me what right someone has to the tax filings of another citizen. Show me where that is. Rights have to stem from a source, and I’d love to know what source he is referring to. Also, would Jon have also argued back in the day that troops have a right to see their Commander-in-Cheifs birth certificate? Because I don’t remember hearing them say that. Granted, I think the birther thing is horseshit, but no more or less so than an imagined right to see a candidates tax returns. (As a sidenote, when Ed here says that everything Romney is doing is legal, and that while it might not seem right to the average Joe but it is legal, he’s the only one with even a modicum of common sense.)

3) He did a poll with Celinda Lake. Oh, you mean a Democratic strategist did a poll for a non-partisan group? That’s interesting I think, no? I’m sure you’ll use Frank Luntz next time just to ensure that you aren’t aligned with a political party, right Jon? “These people are appauled to find out…” Wait, I thought it was a poll? So you educate them, and then ask them about what they just learned?

4) Regarding that poll, VoteVets only has the summary up, not the indepth stuff, so we have no idea how the questions were asked, what the samples were, how they played with the numbers, etc. What we do have is this asinine statement:

“At a time when our men and women in uniform are putting their lives on the line for America, and paying taxes, we need to know if Mitt Romney is making a fair contribution to America, our troops, and our veterans,” said Jon Soltz, Iraq War Veteran, and Chairman of VoteVets.org. “We need to know if, as a multi-millionaire, he is paying his fair share to provide for our troops in the field, and their care when they come home. It would be extremely disconcerting to have someone running to be Commander in Chief who is paying a lower tax rate than the majority of our troops and military retirees.”

No, you don’t “need to know” you want to know.  You don’t need to know shit, since as long as he has an R after his name, you aren’t voting for him anyway.  If it would be disconcerting to have Romney paying a lower rate, why don’t you use your extensive influence with Harry Reid to change the tax code?  Romney pays what the Gov’t tell him to pay, not what some penis-headed jackwagon running a faux-veterans group wants him to pay.

5) You know who’s taxes and financial info I want to see?  VoteVets.  I can’t find it, but maybe one of you can.  I don’t think they file a Form 990, because they aren’t even a real Veterans Organization, and are not under 501(c)(19) either.  I’d like to know how much they pay this moron, and I’d like to know where that money comes from.

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