There is more to the Romney's taxes thing than proving Romney outsourced jobs overseas

[NNN0LHI]

He could get past that with no problem. Take a week or two but he could beat that.

Got to be something more serious than that. I would say there were some kind of shady or barely legal business dealings going on at Bain during the 3 year period Romney is trying to disassociate himself from Bain makes more sense.

Has to be something incriminating in there. Something more than outsourcing jobs to China. Something a lot worse. Something that would make McCain look at them when Romney was applying for the VP job and McCain choose Palin. Whatever McCain saw in Romney's tax returns he didn't like.

Otherwise he would have released them by now. Don't you think?

Don

[bluerum]

1. I'd say thay show he used every tax dodge in the book and paid

less than 10% in taxes.

[NNN0LHI]

3. I think he could beat that too without too much problem

I could be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time I was wrong.

Don

[monmouth]

2. Steve Schmidt says McCain's wife owned too many homes, combined with rmoneys homes, gave a bad

impression. At least that is one of the excuses. rmoney's taxes had nothing to do with Mac's decision to go with Sarah.

[Igel]

10. If they filed separately, who cares?

It's like with Kerry (or McCain): What the wife has isn't relevant because the wife isn't running.

Well, it's relevant with Kerry.

[DevonRex]

4. Well, there was also a thread where he personally

signed for Bain after he supposedly left, the purchase of a microchip manufacturer in South Korea whose business model relies on outsourcing from the US. So that's proof he lied about whether he really left Bain and puts him squarely in the middle of outsourcing during his Olympic tenure.

But I agree that the Vanity Fair article on his taxes was damning. It said he used every gray area and shady trick in the book, and actually used quite risky techniques to avoid paying taxes. the writer is English so has no personal gripe.

I'm also curious about how much Ann is hiding in her name as well. And about that Ponzi scheme Tagg was involved in. They're all crooks.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. As they say, no smoke without fire

[flamingdem]

6. The IRS could audit his returns

to do otherwise is to ignore many red flags.

[MiniMe]

7. At this point,it would look like a political witchunt

Even if Obama had nothing to do with it,that is how it would be perceived.

[quinnox]

8. if a prostitution ring or sex scandal or drug scandal is

exposed, that is when I'll get interested. Fudging a little on taxes is not something I can get excited about, I imagine many Americans wouldn't think lying on some obscure tax form is so terrible and evil either.

[B Calm]

9. Raiding workers pensions?

[HooptieWagon]

11. I think he probably paid the minimum legal taxes.

Obviously hes going to use every loophole and deduction he can get away with. And he outsourced jobs. While that may outrage us, its not going to outrage the Rep base.
As far as illegal activity (trading with Iran, etc) , hes not going to include anything incriminating in his personal tax filings, and the statue of limitations has probably expired on false statments to SEC and/or the FEC... not to mention the GOP base simply does not care if their candidate is a liar and crook.
So, I don,t think it is for financial or legal reasons he refuses to release his tax forms, which leaves us with political reasons. Donations to liberal candidates or groups (ACLU, Planned Parenthood, etc)? Something like that that the GOP base would find outrageuos and unforgiveable.

[karynnj]

12. Could be as simple as his address or his listed profession in 1999, 2000, and 2001

Did he defraud (?) Massachusetts by lying as to his residence in 2001 when the truth would have left him ineligible to run for governor? Did he repeat that cavalier indifference to vote in MA in 2010 - when he did not own a MA house, but had several mansions elsewhere, but claimed he lived in his son's basement?

The Republicans are screaming about voter fraud. Every investigation has found that there is little of it - but it looks like that is what their candidate was guilty of - on a serial basis!