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Showing Original Post only (View all)Obama Campaign Calls On Romney To RELEASE FULL 20 YEARS, Not Just Summary [View all]
I don't think anybody is really sure why Mitt Romney decided to reveal his average effective tax rate over the past 20 years, but one thing is for sure: it's given the Obama campaign an opportunity to release a statement questioning why he won't release the raw tax returns and calling on him to open the books:
STATEMENT: Romney Pays Lower Rate than Middle Class, Hides Wealth and Income
Chicago, ILObama for America released the following statement from Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter on Mitt Romneys 2011 tax returns:
Todays release of Mitt Romneys 2011 tax returns confirms what we already knew that people like Mitt Romney pay a lower tax rate than many middle class families because of a set of complex loopholes and tax shelters only available to those at the top," she said in a statement. "Yet, Mitt Romney still wants to give multi-millionaires an additional $250,000 tax cut at the expense of middle class taxpayers who will see their taxes go up."
Cutter added that Romney still had not released any tax returns from before 2010, despite disclosing about one page of details on his effective tax rates from 1990-2009 on Friday.
"While the tax return for the one year released today continues to mask Romneys true wealth and income from Bain Capital, leaving the American people in the dark about critical details about his finances, it does confirm that he continues to profit from millions of dollars invested overseas," Cutter said. "These types of investments, the use of tax loopholes, and the resort to foreign blocker corporations enabling him to reduce his U.S. tax obligations, all raise basic and still unanswered question why does Mitt Romney not just release the full returns , instead of the bare summary he has provided of the last 20 years, so voters can make their own judgments about Mitt Romneys finances? As Mitt Romneys father said, candidates should release several years of returns, because one year could be a fluke. President Obama, Vice President Biden and nearly every other candidate in recent memory has met that test, but Mitt Romney continues to fail it.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-campaign-romney-still-needs-to-release-his
Chicago, ILObama for America released the following statement from Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter on Mitt Romneys 2011 tax returns:
Todays release of Mitt Romneys 2011 tax returns confirms what we already knew that people like Mitt Romney pay a lower tax rate than many middle class families because of a set of complex loopholes and tax shelters only available to those at the top," she said in a statement. "Yet, Mitt Romney still wants to give multi-millionaires an additional $250,000 tax cut at the expense of middle class taxpayers who will see their taxes go up."
Cutter added that Romney still had not released any tax returns from before 2010, despite disclosing about one page of details on his effective tax rates from 1990-2009 on Friday.
"While the tax return for the one year released today continues to mask Romneys true wealth and income from Bain Capital, leaving the American people in the dark about critical details about his finances, it does confirm that he continues to profit from millions of dollars invested overseas," Cutter said. "These types of investments, the use of tax loopholes, and the resort to foreign blocker corporations enabling him to reduce his U.S. tax obligations, all raise basic and still unanswered question why does Mitt Romney not just release the full returns , instead of the bare summary he has provided of the last 20 years, so voters can make their own judgments about Mitt Romneys finances? As Mitt Romneys father said, candidates should release several years of returns, because one year could be a fluke. President Obama, Vice President Biden and nearly every other candidate in recent memory has met that test, but Mitt Romney continues to fail it.
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-campaign-romney-still-needs-to-release-his
As even GOP strategists have conceded, Romney's strategy of releasing some of the information about the past 20 years but not all of it is sort of like saying he's "a little bit pregnant," raising more questions than it answers.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/21/1134952/-Former-Mitt-strategist-on-Romneyland-tax-dump-Is-this-an-April-Fool-s-joke
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/21/1134952/-Former-Mitt-strategist-on-Romneyland-tax-dump-Is-this-an-April-Fool-s-joke
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Obama Campaign Calls On Romney To RELEASE FULL 20 YEARS, Not Just Summary [View all]
Segami
Sep 2012
OP
Hey, I like alliteration! it was un-intentional. At least I didn't talk about "unzipping" anything!
patrice
Sep 2012
#10
See? "Where's the beef, Mitt?" just doesn't scan as well, but out of pity, I will switch anyway. nt
patrice
Sep 2012
#13
Totally, why should Rmoney get away with this "summary" when others released the returns?
treestar
Sep 2012
#9
Richard Nixon Released Edited Transcripts Of Watergate Conversations With Staffers
DallasNE
Sep 2012
#19
Come on, Mitt, what you need to say is really simple: "I plead the Fifth." n/t
Bolo Boffin
Sep 2012
#24