Funny, isn't it, how with Tim Geithner, it was all

[closeupready]

'tax cheat' 24/7 -

But with Willard, silence ensues about his transparently obvious tax shenanigans.

Why is the 'liberal media' dropping the ball? Huh?

[HopeHoops]

1. Hypocracy knows know boundaries.

[closeupready]

2. Obviously not.

A fact that clearly underlies why so many American distrust the mainstream media, and those trust percentages continue falling, right in line with Congress.

[HopeHoops]

3. That should have been "knows NO" - sorry, I'm tired.

[awwyeah]

4. has romney actually never paid his taxes like geithner?

or did he just take advantage of all the stupid loop holes in our system?

[awwyeah]

8. thats what I thought. he didnt pay and was caught and had to pay money back. it was a hiccup.

am I wrong?

[sadbear]

10. It was Social Security and Medicare taxes while he worked at the IMF.

Of course, Mitt Romney does have an opinion on this:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/25/mitt-romney-taxes-tim-geithner_n_1703133.html

[awwyeah]

12. ok yup thats what it was.

[ProSense]

6. Geithner released his tax returns.

Mitt's turn!

[closeupready]

7. Yup. There we go.

And at the very least, Geithner acknowledged his mistake.

We're still waiting for Willard to do the same thing.

[awwyeah]

9. so we dont actually know if Romney has actually broken any laws, right?

just that he used legal loop holes.

[hatrack]

11. Read and learn:

EDIT

In a blog post Thursday, Victor Fleischer, a law professor at the University of Colorado, said that there was some disagreement among lawyers, but that he believed: “If challenged in court, Bain would lose. The Bain partners, in my opinion, misreported their income if they reported these converted fees as capital gain instead of ordinary income.”

A typical private equity or hedge fund pays its managers in part with a management fee based on the size of the fund, and in part with a share of the profits earned by the fund. Those profits are considered “carried interest” and taxed at capital gains rates, which in recent years have been 15 percent, assuming that the underlying investment profits qualified for that treatment.

The tax strategy Bain appears to have used is intended to convert the remaining management fee — the part not based on investment profits — into capital gains. Mr. Romney appears to benefit from the carried interest structure in these funds, but it is not clear from the documents made public whether he also benefits from the fee waiver. The Romney campaign declined to comment.

In an article that appeared in the journal Tax Notes in 2009, Gregg D. Polsky, a tax law professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, called the tax strategy “extremely aggressive” and said it was “subject to serious challenge by the I.R.S.”

EDIT

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/us/politics/documents-show-details-on-romney-family-trusts.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

[Arkana]

13. Even if he didn't, legal != moral.

Mitt Romney professes to love this country while stashing millions in offshore tax havens. He proclaims that he cares about the middle class, but his time at Bain Capital saw millions lose their livelihoods and pensions when Romney tore their companies apart without a second thought.

[awwyeah]

14. but he didnt break the law...

right?

[hlthe2b]

15. we have no way of knowing...

[awwyeah]

16. so as of right now we can only ASSume if he did or didnt break the law?

[hlthe2b]

17. we can assume he has something to hide... whether it is ethical, illegal, or merely embarrassing...

we can't know.

[awwyeah]

18. exactly

[bongbong]

19. LOL

Enjoy your stay, lover of Flip-Flopper Felon.

[awwyeah]

21. hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha

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how is he a felon? please explain.

[bongbong]

22. Hey Flip-Flopper-Lover

Ask his dad!

"Any politician who will not show multiple year taxes may be hiding something." - George Romney

[awwyeah]

23. haha all politicians are hiding something! if you dont believe that then you are a fool.

[bongbong]

24. LOL

You're too much! R-money has been hiding his crimes about residency claims and his lies to the SEC with his hidden tax returns.

You're a total idiot to vote for a lying repig, and sorry, the False Equivalence doesn't work here, peanut.

[amandabeech]

20. Social issues get much better ratings. n/t

[Enrique]

25. media is demanding Mitt's tax returns pretty hard

being much more persistent than I expected