# 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:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/romney-and-taxes-morally-unfit-to-be-president/610492/26 "2012-01-24T14:37:52Z")

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> [@Shodan](#):
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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? So your complaint is that he isn’t being forced to do what he is doing already.
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> Regards,  
> Shodan

Yes, it is morally wrong to donate money to charity, you are as astute as always.

With the charitable deductions, he pays 3m on 18m instead of 3.35 on 21m. Not a big part of this.

Or are you one of the people that thought charitable deductions means you deduct it from your net tax payments?

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