So Romney Thinks He Can Get By Without Releasing His Tax Returns?

[Blackhatjack]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/22/mitt-romney-money_n_1165595.html

Romney staffers are scrambling to come up with reasons why Romney has decided not to release his tax returns. One of the better ones I heard was that the information would 'confuse' voters. Right?..... Yeah, that's the ticket!

I think there is no way he can hide the fact that he paid a lower tax rate than the people he hired to work for him. In fact it is rumored that the vastness of his wealth has resulted in him only paying a 15% capital gains tax.

Too bad Romney is 'unemployed' and that his family spent time in a small house last year (that is $4mil home) per his son.

I think the average voter will find little in common with Mitt, and it is only a matter of time before he is forced to release his tax returns if he wants to be President of the US.

[Dawson Leery]

1. What is Romneybot hiding?

Clearly he is hiding something.

[Generic Brad]

3. Do you suppose he might be rich?

Boy, it might be embarrassing if the 99% thought he was in the 1% and obviously callous and tone deaf to their needs.

[Dawson Leery]

4. Perhaps tax evasion/fraud?

[Tx4obama]

2. What???

Aren't the GOPers and TeaParty hollering for him to release:

1) Tax returns going all the way back to his first job
2) College, high school, grade school records
3) Kindergarten drawing, so folks can see what was on his mind at the time
4) Short, medium, and long form birth certificate
5) A urine sample
6) A DNA analysis
7) A copy of a list of all books he has ever checked out of the library
8) Every medical record that exists on the face of the planet
9) Etc ....

I'm sure that the GOPers will be asking for most of those things on the list from Obama in the up coming year

[LiberalAndProud]

9. Did Ann ever write a thesis while attending Brigham Young University?

We may never know.

[LiberalFighter]

5. I want to see his birth certificate. The real one. Not the computer generated version.

[DesertRat]

6. Me too. The long-form birth certificate. And his tax returns.

[gratuitous]

7. Yeah, it's the tax rate

And if Romney knows what's good for him, he'll keep those tax returns away from the public eye. Hedge fund managers and other leeches who are paying the lower tax rate like their sweet deal, and aren't about to give it up just because Romney wants to get clobbered in 2012. Romney goes public and reminds people about that low, low tax rate, and it just might go bye-bye.

[phasma ex machina]

8. Mittens seemingly plays the part of the "innocent bystander" who sacrifices and accepts the bonds of

public servitude when asked to serve his countrymen.

None of it HIS idea, don't you know?

[CarmanK]

10. Accountants now going over them with fine tooth comb to be sure all is in order!

He will have to release them, but it won't be til after the Primary. Doesn't want to give the weebles more to attack him on. In the mean time, the accountants are preping and reviewing the returns to make sure all is in order and that what is revealed doesn't TRIP an audit. After all, with all that money. IRS may be curious.

[judesedit]

11. Of course. You are talking about Mitt "Wall Street" Romney, corporate lobbyist, racketeer.

Got money from daddy. Never really worked a day in his life. Total spoiled brat with no conception of reality and what's going on in this world.

[Quartermass]

12. In other words, what right to privacy? He must be held to higher standards.

[rustydog]

13. Obama released his long-form birth certificate...Why is Willard nervous about Tax Returns?

[judesedit]

14. His compadres are busy creating NEW and improved fake tax documents. Why doesn't the IRS release wh

at they have first? Because that is a bogus institution, also, created to get money out of the poor and middle class while the wealthy pay little to nothing, stashing their $$$$$ in offshore banks, with no questions asked. They can afford the lawyers who can tell them every way possible to avoid paying their fair share. Why is Romney any different? He's NOT. Why not expose this whole fiasco for what it is. I know there are people out there that can do that, but they fear for their lives, I'm sure.

[Corruption Winz]

15. This makes total sense...

He can't release his tax returns. It will confuse people. I mean.. that excuse has already confused me.

[Angry Dragon]

16. His daddy was born in Mexico

[deacon]

17. He's toast. He will be eaten alive over this. n/t

[SpiralHawk]

18. "Nice to be a 1% FatCat Republicon crony. Smirk." - Mitty (R)

[Grateful for Hope]

19. Wow, this is interesting.

[DallasNE]

20. So This Is Romney's Idea Of Transparency

This decision will dog him until he releases it, and perhaps beyond just because of the action he has taken. Hubris.

[farmbo]

21. Have Biden claim: "Mittens made $5 mm on Iranian nuke technology sales 1999- 2010"

Then see how fast he releases them!