# Mitt and Ann cry when they tithe, but for different reasons.

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-and-ann-cry-when-they-tithe-but-for-different-reasons/632510
**Category:** Politics & Elections
**Created:** [August 24, 2012, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-and-ann-cry-when-they-tithe-but-for-different-reasons/632510 "2012-08-24T18:11:36Z")
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### Author: ![Emphant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Emphant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emphant)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2012, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-and-ann-cry-when-they-tithe-but-for-different-reasons/632510/21 "2012-08-24T23:28:54Z")

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I’m by no means a Mitt Romney fan but that was pretty funny.

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### Author: ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2012, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-and-ann-cry-when-they-tithe-but-for-different-reasons/632510/22 "2012-08-29T05:24:53Z")

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> [@Marley23](#):
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> What, just because his income for the year was in the low $20 millions? This joke is reasonably funny even though it’s a little bit ‘man, my wife is spending my money!’

How is a joke about being unemployed about his wife spending money? This latest joke, sure. But not this one.

And, yeah, that joke was one of the first points where I realized Romney was not just someone I disagreed with politically, but actually a horrible person. And, it seems, to most people I talk to, even here in Republican-land, that last thing matters more.

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### Author: ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2012, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-and-ann-cry-when-they-tithe-but-for-different-reasons/632510/23 "2012-08-29T05:39:14Z")

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Is that 10 percent of gross income? Net? Before or after taxes? And what about deferred income? And is it really income if it’s deposited into an offshore account?

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### Author: ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)
#### Post date: [August 29, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mitt-and-ann-cry-when-they-tithe-but-for-different-reasons/632510/24 "2012-08-29T10:46:06Z")

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> [@An\_Arky](#):
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> Sounds like an old Jack Benny line.

Well, the LDS \*do \*claim to be the real lost tribes of Israel.

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