or even Chick-fil A or any conservative issue.
THIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT DEFENDING ROMNEY,
THE author of Death Panels, ObamaCARE, etc. etc. etc..
Posted on 08/04/2012 10:43:06 AM PDT by jmaroneps37
The amoral Democrats led by the crooked Harry Reid have demanded Mitt Romney release his tax returns.
Reid is claiming a “secret caller” ( as if he would EVER come to the phone for an unidentified and unknown person) told him he/she had absolute knowledge that while Romney was at Bain Capital he failed to pay his taxes for ten years.
Aside from the fact that this charge is coming from a group of proved liars and thieves, it’s ridiculous in its face.
The history of how the IRS has handled high profile tax evaders makes it impossible for Romney to have revaded federal income taxes for ten years during his time at Bain which ended thirteen years ago.
Over the recent past the IRS has prosecuted and jailed some very high profile Americans without regard for their station in life. They sent Richard Hatch “the naked Gay Guy” from Survivor to prison for not paying his federal taxes and they didn’t wait 13 years to do so.
Wesley Snipes is currently in prison for failing to file his returns and they caught up to him in seven years. The IRS sent Al Capone to federal prison for income tax evasion in 1931 proving he had failed to pay his taxes just six to two years before his arrest.
The point here is that the IRS doesn’t treading easy on “big fish” so Reid’s charge is demonstrably false. Mitt Romney should never ever consider following the idiotic advice from fools like the naive bunch of rubes at the National Review and the treacherous simpletons at the New Hampshire Union Leader.
There is nothing but down side to Romney’s releasing his back tax returns...
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Makes a good point. You’ve got to believe that if Romney hadn’t paid his taxes for 10 years as the creepy little bastard has alleged, don’t you think the IRS would have been all over Romney like stink on a cowpie by now? Dingy Harry Reid is a liar.
THIS ENTIRE CAMPAIGN IS ABOUT DEFENDING ROMNEY,
THE author of Death Panels, ObamaCARE, etc. etc. etc..
Don’t worry he won’t. They know what the Dems are up to. It will be a fishing expedition, and every week will be a new “scandal” right up through the election.
It is funny to see the media that mocked those who wanted to see Obama’s birth certificate for 4 years now all of sudden claiming guilt for not releasing. The bias is mind blowing.
Hannity has a guest on during the week and they explained that this is what Obama/Axelrod has done his whole political career - dig up dirt (divorces records, taxes, etc) to basically disqualify his opponent and clear the field.
He’s a fool. Should have done it a year ago.
I’m still trying to figure out what is ‘missing’.
He released 23 years of tax returns in 2008 when he was being vetted as a possible VP candidate.
His website has the 2010 and 2011 returns.
That leaves a year or two not there possibly.
Non-issue.
reid’s secret source is obama’s campaign
Romney should produce a set of photoshopped tax returns that show him paying over 90% rate.
Let the liberals dispute that.
Athough highly technical, the tax laws allow companies and big investors (who are, after all, corporations) to carry losses back three years and forward seven years. 7+3=10.
All Mitt needs to have done is to have suffered very heavy losses in 2007/2008, and he could well have carried enough loss backwards to wipe out his tax obligations for 2005, 2006 and 2007, and then for 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and the current year 2012 (for which he'd be paying quarterly taxes).
This is all legal, but it's complex, and probably not all his losses are recoverable so it's possible we'd see this as just a dimunition of his total tax burden, and a reduction in his rates of taxation in any given year.
Private individuals can also carry back a certain amount of investment/business losses, and carry some forward.
In most cases most wage earners with small personal but taxable investments would likely find those loses to be less than their total income so they'd end up paying rates fairly representative of their ordinary tax bracket.
So, how does Harry lie in this? Well, if we grant that he's got the 10 years correct ~ which involves dealing with some very substantial losses ~ he's wrong in saying Mitt paid no taxes. I've spent a bit of time going over the parts of that element of tax law and it doesn't seem to me that Mitt could entirely escape taxation ~ after all, he does have a life separate and apart from his business ~ ...............??????????????????
Bet Michelle Bachmann knows. Will she be his VP candidate? Only the Tax Code knows.
Ya better let them see the dirt under your fingernails..Every bit of it, regardless of what the last corrupt president did or did not do.
Enough of these bull sh*t little political games.
Lets see Harry the Godfather Reids tax returns for the last 50 years.
Let him explain all those crooked land deals he made and all the payoffs he got from the Mob.
He's since published a broadside on his 2010 return, and a preliminary estimation on 2011. 2012 is, of course, a work in progress, as was 2008.
What you have to do is look at the first 3 years, and then the next 7 years, and you'd see he did not publish his returns for the years he probably suffered intense losses ~ just like the rest of us ~ to wit; 2007 and 2008!
Note, folks with 401(k) accounts probably noted the losses but they didn't have to pay taxes on them anyway!
If Romney followed the law and took every deduction available he got several million bucks back from the US Government for taxes paid in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and claimed some losses in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and is going to claim some losses 2012 and 2013.
HIs problem consists of large dollar value REFUNDS and non payment of taxes at a high rate during periods when millions were losing their homes and retirement savings.
Although what he did was lawful, it will not set well ~ which is why he doesn't want to let you know about it.
The fault is in the tax code.
This is something that can easily be put to rest simply by releasing the returns. If there is something legal he did that is complicated to explain... well, explain it, and after a week or two it’s a dead story and won’t even matter in the general election. Dick Morris calls this “inoculation,” getting something “negative” out of the way early on. Instead, Mittens is keeping this alive and putting a shadow of “hiding something” over it. I suppose, however, that this itself has its own strategic value. Better to talk about stuff that is basically unimportant than to talk about issues in which he agrees with Obama with. Have any of you seen any Romney ads as of late talking about ObamaCare??
Reid’s secret source is his imagination!
Then, Obama forgot to tell us he lied about all his origins and life's experiences ~ he has no shame ~ so he'll just shuck and jive off the stage.
Now we got a rich guy who is having some trouble getting through a needle ~ well just darn. This could have been predicted.
That was only to McCain's people. And McCain didn't select him (or perhaps he wisely refused McCain, not wanting to go down with a loser). So, those 23 years of returns don't really prove anything one way or the other.
McCain's say-so that there was nothing disqualifying in those returns is not going to make the controversy go away. Actually releasing those returns would obviously end the controversy. But it would also give the Donks and the MSM a long list of trivial diversionary talking points, starting with the magnitude of the numbers and extending to who knows what else.
You are correct regarding the complexity. I can’t even imagine the level of complexity of a return for someone like him.
Not to mention, you would need to scrub them to black out private information such as dependent social security numbers, bank account numbers, private addresses, etc.
MY response would be -
“What does the law require? I am a law abiding citizen and will do all that the law requires and only what the law requires.”
“When you release your tax returns, I’ll consider changing my mind - but most likely, I will not.”
Secret caller to us but not to him...
He has connections to Willards records...
It may have been what we might conseider unethical
but it also may not have been criminal...
It could be Willard knows who told Harry...
Hes more upset about the exposure than act...
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