# Romney and taxes: Morally unfit to be President

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [January 24, 2012, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-and-taxes-morally-unfit-to-be-president/610492 "2012-01-24T11:49:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-and-taxes-morally-unfit-to-be-president/610492/19 "2012-01-24T14:24:11Z")

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So it is morally wrong to donate your money to charity, instead of hanging onto it until the government takes it by force?

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> Romney gave nearly $3 million to charity — about half of that amount to the Mormon Church — which helped lower his effective tax rate to a modest 14 percent, according to records his campaign released early Tuesday.

So your complaint is that he isn’t being forced to do what he is doing already.

Regards,  
Shodan

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