Too bad he didn't have that same attitude at Bain: It would have saved many workers, families, and taxpayers a lot of pain. But, then, you take a vulture capitalist -- surely a bane of our modern existence -- and link it up tight with pain, hey presto! Bain!
If you think there are too many loopholes in the tax codes for billionaires to drive 18-wheelers filled with gold through, you haven't seen anything yet. Just check out the loopholes in Willard's alibi -- whoops, sorry, ladies and gentlemen of the voting jury -- that is to say, his life story and beliefs.
Oh, sure -- endless flip-flopping and enough waffling to create a hundred roadside diners, instead of the standard politician's dozen or so. Meanwhile, we are to believe this story: He quit as head of a company-gutting, job-shattering, killer looting machine like Bain, retroactively, but was kept on the payroll for years. See, everybody? He's just like us!
And, no, we should not prod too deep for any facts, especially nothing noted on the campaign filing forms. (Memory lapses on that paperwork can morph into a few years of time spent in a highly secure, gated community -- a federally-run mansion, aka a "big house" of some sort.)
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