Posted on 08/18/2012 8:01:57 PM PDT by smoothsailing
August 18, 2012
The Obama campaign is asking supporters to sign a letter to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney release “just five years of tax returns.”
In an email to the BarackObama.com list, campaign manager Jim Messina noted the letter he sent Friday morning to Romney’s campaign manager, vowing to get off Romney’s back about the returns if the documents were produced. The Romney camp brushed off Messina’s move.
Now Messina has converted his letter into an online petition of sorts.
“According to the one full year of returns he has released, Romney paid 13.9% in taxes on his income. Thursday, he said he went back and looked, and has never paid less than 13% over the last ten years. Now we’re asking him to put his money where his mouth is,” Messina wrote.
“It is absolutely relevant for us to ask how much a presidential candidate paid in taxes, if he sheltered his money or tried to get out of paying taxes at all, why he started — and continues to own — a corporation offshore in Bermuda, why he keeps his finances offshore in the Cayman Islands, and why he opened a Swiss bank account,” he continued.
In addition to being invited to sign the petition, supporters were reminded in a P.S. to open their wallets: “Election Day is closer than you think — make a donation to fund this campaign in the time we have left.”
That is pretty wishful thinking.
As I said many times during the primary. Romney is the worse person you could pick to try to sell tax and spending cuts. It will be outright impossible.
From what I heard Ryan released two years of his tax return and while making a fraction of what Romney makes, paid a significantly higher tax rate on it than Romney did.
You can bet that Romney has all sorts of Christmas presents in his taxes for Dems.
Now lets say it were 2008 and the economy was booming and voters trusted Republicans 2 to 1 on the economy, then Republicans could get away with a Romney. But that is not the case.
Republicans big problem is they havent changed. They apply trickery to get through the primaries but in the end its the same as GWB era. It's bad.
Thanks for posting, I saved the main link to my bookmarks. :)
” Stupid Fundraising letter... “
Very!
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