Obama camp: What is Romney hiding by withholding tax returns?

[maddezmom]

Obama camp: What is Romney hiding by withholding tax returns?


One day after President Barack Obama pressed Mitt Romney to be an "open book" on his personal finances, the incumbent's reelection campaign released a new web video suggesting that the Republican standard-bearer may be hiding something improper by refusing to release more of his tax returns.

The online attack features CNN's Wolf Blitzer asking former Republican National Committee Chairman Haley Barbour whether Romney should release his information, and Barbour replying: "I would." (Not featured: Barbour telling Blitzer that the issue didn't amount to " diddly" in the campaign).

The video showcases media suggestions that Romney might have eluded American taxes by parking money in places like the Cayman Islands and mocks Romney's response as "Just take our word for it." "The American people deserve the facts," the ad says.

It shows Romney sidestepping the issues in Republican primary debates, saying "maybe" and "time will tell" when asked whether he will follow his father George Romney's standard-setting decision to release a decade's worth of tax returns.

more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/obama-camp-romney-hiding-withholding-tax-returns/story?id=16746874

[spanone]

1. curious minds want to know

[unblock]

2. in fairness, politicians have to carefully vet tax returns before releasing them.

you don't want to release your tax returns until you've looked at them from a political angle and are prepared to answer any question.

most politicians have relatively simple filings, so it only takes no more than a few hours, maybe a few days.

in rmoney's case, this process takes about a month. per tax year.

[Spazito]

3. Well, seeing as he released 23 years of returns to the McCain campaign a mere 4 years ago...

obviously they have already been "looked at" already. There is NO excuse for not releasing them unless there is information in them that is very damaging to him, imo.

[unblock]

10. exactly. the fact that his returns are so complex is damaging enough

they have to have a response ready for every dodge and gimmick and trick he used.

and you know he paid his tax guys plenty to use every trick in the book.

[Spazito]

11. My point is that it has already been done...

so that could not be used as the reason for delay. I suspect it is more likely there is NO believable 'response' to what the returns will reveal and that's the reason they have not been released.

[Life Long Dem]

4. Find out.

Or be the fool.

[malaise]

5. Does the Obama camp have a copy of the 23 years of tax returns given

to McGramps in 2008?

[1StrongBlackMan]

6. if romney releases his returns ...

I wonder what, if anything, would give those "leaning" towards romney greater heartburn:

1) Definitive proof that romney gamed the taxation system; or,

2) Definitive proof that romney committed voter fraud when he voted from his son's unfinished basement (or was it his house in California, or his house in New Hampshire) in 2010?

My guess is none of these would matter in the least, so long as the Black guy doesn't get back in.

[liberal N proud]

7. We want the LONG form too!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

8. And we want the State returns too

Romney hasn't released even one state return.

[liberal N proud]

9. Which state would he release?

The one where he claims residence or the one where he last voted?

[NNN0LHI]

12. Wherever he filed them would be fine with me

If he filed any?

Don