Romney Surrogate On WITHHOLDING TAX RETURNS: Tells Critics To ‘GET OVER IT'

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ThinkProgress:


" Utah Representative Jason Chaffetz (R), a top-tier surrogate for the Mitt Romney campaign, told The New Yorker’s Washington correspondent Ryan Lizza that Mitt Romney shouldn’t have to release his tax returns, and that critics of the candidate’s decision to hide his vast fortune in overseas bank accounts should “get over it.”


Lizza, a panelist on CNN’s Starting Point program, asked Chaffetz to respond to fellow Romney surrogate Haley Barbour’s comment yesterday that he felt Romney should release his tax returns.

LIZZA: What’s your position on that? Should Governor Romney release all those tax returns? Right now he’s in a very unique position for a presidential candidate, he’s only released one year and a summary of 2011.


CHAFFETZ: Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed, he’s complied 100 percent what the law requires, um…


LIZZA: No I’m sorry Congressman, I was just asking if you think he should release them, not if he’s complied with the law. Should he release his tax returns?


CHAFFETZ: I think he has released the tax returns.
[Laughter and crosstalk]


LIZZA: Just yes or no, should he release them or not.


CHAFFETZ: No! No, I don’t…He’s been very successful, he’s released everything that he’s required to release, including paying more than 16 percent of his income to charitable givings. I think it’s a diversionary tactic. Most people, they don’t care about this. Governor Romney’s been very successful, get over it. It’s a reality.

http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/07/10/513597/surrogate-critics-get-over-it/


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[maindawg]

1. not only will he refuse to devulge

he will arrogantly say , fuck off in as anice a way as possible. Then he will refuse to talk about it, refuse to answer any questions at all, and smile as if to say, go fuck your selves' in such a nice way that only filthy rich people know how to do.
Meanwhile, he wonders about Obamas birth certificate and it keeps him and all his billionaire friends up all night.

[madmom]

2. Are these the same people who think

Pres. Obama needs to turn over college transcripts and anything else they can use to try and denigrate him?

[emulatorloo]

3. Yes.

[maddezmom]

6. ayup

[siligut]

4. Mitt is hiding something, to be sure.

Is Mitt guilty of tax evasion? Will this ever come out?

[maddezmom]

7. agree

and I doubt we'll ever get to the bottom of it.

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8. Who knows,..did Mitt partake with IRS tax cheat amnesty?

Would his tax statements reveal IF he did participate with the Tax Amnesty? Who knows.

[bulloney]

5. That's what Obama should have done regarding the birth certificate and Rev. Wright.

Four years later, the teabaggers are still having a shit fit over those two issues.

[lumpy]

9. Are you trying to say Obama hasn't released his birth certificate?

or what ?

[TheTruthSquad]

10. The further you go back, the worse it gets

He took the tax amnesty, and this will comeout.