Excerpt: "The public will see just two years of returns and no more, Romney said, before appearing to admit that the records may contain something politically damaging."
Mitt Romney, job-destroying corporate stiff, lacking in conscience and empathy, at Bain Capital buyout firm. (photo: Brian Snyder/Reuters)
Romney Suggests Releasing Tax Returns Could Be Politically Damaging
19 July 12
itt Romney appeared on Fox & Friends Monday morning to respond to the growing number of conservatives who are calling on the former Massachusetts governor to release more of his tax returns.
At least eight Republicans have urged Romney to publicize the records and put the issue behind him, but the candidate is sticking to his guns. The public will see just two years of returns and no more, Romney said, before appearing to admit that the records may contain something politically damaging:
ROMNEY: The Obama people keep on wanting more and more and more. More things to pick through, more things for their opposition research to try make a mountain out of and to distort and to be dishonest about. We’re going to put out two years of tax returns.
Watch it:
Republicans are also raising alarms about Romney’s returns. “The fact is, there are a couple of years he may not have paid any taxes,” MSNBC host and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough predicted during Monday’s Morning Joe. “Maybe he’s concerned about that. But if it’s going to come out, he needs to get it out now so he has a couple of months to explain it.”
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John McCain balked but in the end he did put out more tax returns .
You know darn well he is hiding tax evasion and god knows what else or he would show them.
Perhaps he is afraid of not just losing votes he might be afraid of prosecution for tax evasion !
If he had nothing to hide he wouldn't make an issue out of showing the tax returns period !
When your own party is calling for you to step forward and show the documentation and you still refuse there has to be something pretty darn damaging to your political career !
Yes Tom, what about his policies? They also remain a great mystery!
Romney doesn't seem to understand it's not the opposition he owes his disclosure to, it's us.
Am I missing something? Is Kerry on the ballot again?
This must be turning up on this morning's GOP talking points for trolls email.
Enacted in 1966, the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, gives any person the right to access federal agency records or information. The FOIA is based on the presumption that the government and its information belong to the people.
Aren't IRS records federal agency records?
Why do we need Mitt's permission to see his tax records?
What policies? He doesn't have any, he just changes his outlook depending on which way the wind is blowing that day. The only absolute to etch-a-sketch romney is whatever his handlers tell him to say on any given subject...and he'll change it as many times as necessary to pander to public opinion.
It's a little hard to ask about those as he doesn't know what they are himself.
Romney has painted himself into a corner with the help of Obama's smart campaign staff. It couldn't happen to a more deserving person (and I use the word 'person' lightly).
That being said, there is of course a caveat. If you are running for President, US Senator, or the US Congress, then the IRS must conduct a full tax audit. The results of that audit then become public information. This takes all the stupid stuff out, and also the confusing details. The audit could release totals of income types, and amounts paid in tax on that income. Where money is being hoarded, on shore or off and the taxes paid on those dollars as well.
Until we legally define what must be released or done to run for elective office I would think that Mitt should follow current convention, release his tax returns under protest and use it as a platform to propose sane legislation. But, of course, he is not that kind of guy. You know, the kind that actually solves problems.
When McCain said that gun toting Sarah would have made a better candidate, the Party should have taken notice! Oh wait, it really IS a good OLD boy network isn't it??? No Women allowed except to make the coffee!
This isn't about "breaking the law". Since when has "breaking the law" been the only measure of whether or not a person is qualified to be President.
We are certainly NOT wasting time discussing whether or not he paid any taxes when his sole constituency are the super-duper-übe r rich who think taxes are only for the rest of us to pay and support their financial adventures.
He is Slime from his Governorship to his Healthcare bs to Bain and Offshore Accounts. Their is nothing American about this slime bag.
"the best and the brightest" to write the
tax laws and have bought our congress to
get them passed. Not illegal, but immoral,
dishonest, unpatriotic, and another example
of the rules only applying to "the little
people".
DUH!!! Ya think?
The democrats don't know how to fight. Here they are, demanding,"Rele ase your tax information! We believe it's your weakness!"
Versus,
"Mr. Romney is hiding information about his past. What does he NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT HIM? Can YOU trust him to be your president?"
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...so he has a couple of months to explain it.
Wow! The TPrepublicans are really convinced (and they may be right) that America will just let this candidate, who epitomizes the greed and favoritism the TPrepublicans are so inclined to protect, skirt his way into the oval office regardless of the secret money or hidden finances he represents, just because they so hate the notion of the Black man in the White house.
Romney's actions as CEO of Bain Capital would serve as text book examples of the practices that brought the economy to its knees, and the rampant out-sourcing that left Americans without jobs while executives got pay raises.
I really the hope the Obama Campaign capitalizes on the GOP's Achilles Heel - running a rich boy for President.
You want Obama to release records to prove something non-existent. You want him to magically produce non-existent records to confirm your wild allegations.
We want Mittens to release his tax returns. If he has nothing to hide it shouldn't be a problem.
You are incorrect by calling it a "law" when it wasn't a law but an operation. Law is legal. Operations are dubious and not always legal.
The operation did not show that "giving guns" raises violent crime. The operation was done to track guns as they were shipped to Mexican Drug Cartels to see in who's hands they wound up. The operation backfired and killed at least 1 federal agent and may have been responsible for the deaths of 30 thousand Mexicans.
By calling it an Operation that shows how guns increase violent crime is downright irresponsible at best.
Now, you claim that I want records release of something non-existent? You clearly state that this operation was happening during Bush and Obama. So it is definitely real. And I would hardly call it "wild allegations" when there has been an ongoing investigation.. . I guess I made all this up.
And for the record, I definitely want to see tax returns. Mitt Romney has no business being President. Then again, neither does Obama.
This is a sting operation. Sting operations are legal. DEAL WITH IT.
If you have evidence that it was more than that, and that government agents were actually involved in moving the guns across the boarder (rather than simply turning a temporary blind eye), you should report it to one of the major news outlets.
So far, no one else has any evidence that a crime was committed either. They just HOPE one was, and they're HOPING they can find some documents showing that one was.
It's a fishing expedition in an empty lake, but don't let that stop you. If you find some hard evidence of the crime you're accusing, let us know. You might become as famous as the right-wing blogger who started this whole controversy. The only difference is that you won't just be making it up.
It's irresponsible at best to think otherwise.
The list of things he could be hiding are deep & may no doubt knock the man out of contention before the voting ever starts. Outside of the fact that way too many Republicans will vote for him whatever is revealed, that may not be enough as independents may make or break this race. Of course a large group on the right see absolutely nothing wrong with a little tax dodge here & there as they believe that they are being far overtaxed to begin with despite paying the lowest rates in 80 years.
only solution? Obama/Biden. Period.
I believe that this should be looked into for all its worth. Tax Evasion is minor, that would not stop him I do believe he has lied outright about Bain and his Position, Contracts, Firing Americans...and he knows full well that this will end his Campaign.
Time for IRS Audit and FBI investigation after all someone signed a lot of contracts that gave a lot of money and jobs to China.
Once a bully always a bully. He even bullied the family dog.
These eighteen very prominent Republicans are calling on Romney to release more tax returns, now:
George Will. Bill Kristol. Ron Paul. Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley. Michael Steele. Rep. Walter Jones. Ana Navarro. Rep. Pete Sessions. Gov. Haley Barbour. Matthew Dowd. Rick Tyler. John Weaver. Brit Hume. David Frum. John Feehery. Gov. Rick Perry Texas. Sen. Chuck Grassley. Sen. Dick Lugar.
Could be a boost for Ron Paul
He then used the millions he inherited just like you said.
If I was an American Olympian I would be wearing American Blue Jeans and TeeShirts There is plenty of time to get them now. I hope they do not disgrace America and where this Foreign Trash. I will not watch the Olympics nor do I care if we win. Olympics are sell outs I am sorry for those who have bought into the bs, families who thought this was about honoring America.
Olympics are about money, nothing more, nothing less. Athletes are just pawns, their families also.
Mitt representing himself, he is also representing Mormons. I believe that this will prove again that Religion has no place in Politics. Religion is Politics of its own.
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