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Mike Marlow[_2_]

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:06:01 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 10:05:34 -0400, "Mike Marlow"
wrote:

HeyBub wrote:
Mike Marlow wrote:
HeyBub wrote:

But your suggestion of a "tax haven" is rank speculation.
Further, there is no "tax haven" capability in an off-shore
account. The US is one of only two countries that tax foreign
earnings (the other is the Philippines). What the Caymens,
Bahamas, etc., offer is bank "secrecy." Now one CAN use the
secrecy to hide dodgy transactions, but Romney is a Republican.
Republicans just don't do that sort of thing.

Sorry - as much of a Democrat, or a liberal as I am not - I just
cannot bring myself to accept such a broad brush statement.
Republicans have been and can be as guilty of any sort of sin as
anyone else.

Your claim, that Republicans can be rascally in their financial
dealings, is certainly true.

There was an instance back in 1922 called the "Teapot Dome
Scandal" during the administration of Warren G. Harding which we
Republicans like to forget.

As well - GW didn't do a lot to endear me...

Are you alleging criminal activity in their financial dealings?

Nope - not at all. In fact, I was generalizing in a way that was
outside of the "financial dealings" that HeyBub laid down in his
prior reply. So - in that sense, I did (with my reply) extend this
beyond what had previously been stated.

Except that you didn't change the subject. You simply added GWB's
name to the criminal activity.

No need to change the subject - all I did was add a slightly different
dimension to a broader thought.

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-Mike-