Romney is hiding "the extent to which he and his family have escaped taxation"

[Liberal_in_LA]

If We’re Headed Toward Greece, Republicans are Driving Us There

When Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters on Tuesday that Mitt Romney's foreign investment accounts don't trouble him because "it's really American to avoid paying taxes," he must not have realized that he was calling his party's nominee-to-be a liar.

"As long as it was legal, I'm OK with it," said the South Carolina Republican. "I don't blame anybody for using the tax code to their advantage. ... It's a game we play. Every American tries to find the way to get the most deductions they can. I see nothing wrong with playing the game because we set it up to be a game."

Graham assumes — no doubt correctly — that Romney sent his money offshore to avoid taxes. But the Republican candidate and his flacks have repeatedly insisted that the Romneys' admittedly minimal tax bill was not reduced at all by their remarkable maze of holdings in Switzerland, the Cayman Islands and Bermuda. It is "the very same" as if he had kept those millions of dollars in the United States, or so they claim.

But Graham clearly doesn't buy that alibi. In fact, nobody does. And eventually Romney may be forced to realize complete information about his investments that may yet indicate the extent to which he and his family have escaped taxation.

http://www.nationofchange.org/if-we-re-headed-toward-greece-republicans-are-driving-us-there-1342184900

[hifiguy]

1. They have not "escaped" taxation.

They have evaded taxation. Big difference.

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. what's the diff?

[hifiguy]

4. Tex evasion is illegal.

Think Al Capone.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Or Spiro Agnew

[roguevalley]

7. Miss Lindsey needs to lose his election. Come on. Vote him out.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. I'm wondering if he didn't try to deduct his $45 million of personal money he spent on his 2008

campaign on his taxes for that year. There may be years when he didn't pay any taxes at all.

[Quantess]

5. This is mind-boggling to me,

that someone like Mitt Romney is actually a serious presidential candidate. WTF?!
Wake up, America! Vote for the black guy.

Edit to let FReeper lurkers know: I said to vote for the black guy, meaning... the black guy happens to be the only viable candidate. Exactly how desperately opposed to a black president do you have to be, to vote for a tax-cheater who made profits off destroying jobs and shipping jobs overseas?

Obama is NOT a muslim, he was born in Hawaii, he was an outstanding student and is super smart, a constitutional lawyer, AND... wait for it... he is republican-lite!

What's not to like, seriously, FReepers? Obama is half white, anyway.

[robinlynne]

10. lol

[Angry Dragon]

6. Lindsey is an ass and should not be in Congress

[Marr]

8. "...because we set it up to be a game". Right-- you set it up to be a game for guys like Romney.

No one I know can employ the sort of tricks Romney and his class do to avoid taxes. We pay.