Romney Suggest that Releasing More Returns Could be Further Politically Damaging.

[Stuart G]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Mitt 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.

(at end of article, much further down..)


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. ”

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/07/16/519241/romney-suggests-releasing-additional-tax-returns-could-be-politically-damaging/

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Joe may have hit the nail on the head, although the article is about a Romney interview this morning..
That would do it..Romney paid no taxes at all...

Ha Ha Ha....

[livetohike]

1. The fact is...Joe says this like it IS a fact, so maybe he knows something

I doubt having a couple of months to explain it will help .

[magical thyme]

2. Reid suggested that last week as well...that maybe he paid no taxes for a couple years

I think I smell blood.

[indie_voter]

3. Harry Reid speculated that Romney didn't pay taxes at all

I think they *know* this from the McCain campaign (when Romney gave them his tax returns). I think this is Joe's way of getting it out there to dilute the impact if the returns are ever released.

Meanwhile bringing up Kerry's wife as a reason he doesn't have to release his is comical at best.

[Stuart G]

4. You are correct, Joe is a tool of them..

It is starting to get out..

He paid no taxes..makes sence..Joe is easing it out..
gives a bit of time to get the rebuttals going..................oh it is ok not to pay any taxes because..

But it won't sell
no taxes at all..on millions upon millions..
when Obama paid hundreds of thousands..

Think about that..ha, ha, ha, ha,

[progressivebydesign]

5. Now he says "two years" Because just "estimating" 2011 taxes doesn't count!

Is he going retroactive on the 2011???? I bet he is right now.. filing an amended return for 2011!!! Because he should have released that one NOW, the due date was in April. He is spinning that one.

Wonder when the bully is going to start screaming UNCLE?

[mary195149]

6. He filed an extension

His tax return has to be completed (I believe) by Oct 15.

[DallasNE]

8. Correct

In his extension form Romney indicated he would be getting a $200,000 tax refund. That is a significant adjustment, even for somebody in Romney's income bracket so what is that all about.

[sad sally]

14. That's right - the extension gives him three more months, but what kind of accountant

does he have that couldn't have them done sooner in order to stop some of the criticism? Oh, right, maybe Romney's shifty tax havens are more complicated than being able to put together a current year tax return in 9 1/2 months.

The claim that nobody cares about his tax returns is so full of bs. The majority of adults at some time (or most all of the time) of their working life have had to deal with tax filings. This is a subject "regular" folks get.

[DallasNE]

7. If It were This Simple

Romney would have already released the stuff. I think it is more serious than that. For instance, the 2010 federal return showed a holding in Bermuda that hadn't previously been listed on his financial disclosure forms. How many other discrepencies would show up and how large would they be. In other words, could Romney have legal issues with prior reports filed should this data surface. I'm sure Romney's people calculated they would take a hit on this and decided that the hit would be less damaging that transparency so you know that it is more serious than paying no taxes for one or more years. Is Romney a crook, in other words.

[Ian David]

9. No, let's wait until sometime in October for this to come out. n/t

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Why the hell aren't tax returns public record, anyway?

[eggplant]

12. Wait, what?

You want the world to have access to the amount of money you spent on medical expenses, who you donated to (and how much), exactly what you earn and from whom, and a host of all sorts of personal information? What possible justification could you possibly make for this?

[AtheistCrusader]

13. Maybe it's just that I don't have a 'lot going on' in my life or something

but I wouldn't have a problem with any of that data being public. Someone's pissed I give to the ACLU, MoveOn and a couple others? Fuck 'em.

There's nothing on my tax return I am ashamed of, or would be interested in keeping from anyone else. Maybe my SOC number itself. Not much else.

Maybe I'm just not aware of what constituties 'sensitive' info on other people's tax returns? I really have no idea.

[eggplant]

16. "Maybe I'm just not aware of what constituties 'sensitive' info on other people's tax returns?"

Your logic is equivalent to saying "I don't have cancer, so why should we spend money curing it?"

And those people who are pissed at the money given to, say, Planned Parenthood? Some of them shoot people.

[nobodyspecial]

18. Or, less dramatic

a prospective employer could use it as a screening tool.

[AtheistCrusader]

19. You mean like the American People, considering hiring this douchebag as POTUS?

[AtheistCrusader]

20. Your analogy to Cancer doesn't make any sense at all.

These donations need not be a tax issue at all, if you don't claim it.

[Dalai_1]

11. this consistent talking point

rmoney is using makes me think of the reasoning used in the
below post..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002956061#post17

I am beginning to think it is a planned distraction by the rmoney
campaign....this way he can stay on 3 talking points
instead of the two he started out with....

[tanyev]

15. Yeah, we already figured that out, Mitt.

[sakabatou]

17. So... what's in those returns of his?