Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Mitt paid more taxes last year than obama has in his entire life

And he probably makes more in a day than I make in a year. Are you suggesting that there should be a flat amount paid rather than a (varying) percentage?

logically speaking, does 1 person who makes more money utilize more government services?

If a family has 1 car but makes 1 million a year does their 1 car wear out the roads as much as a family who makes 40k a year with 1 car?

The dancing horse gave him 77k in tax breaks

Anonymous wrote:I will vote for Obama, not Romney, but I don't care about the tax returns. He is a rich guy and has tax attorneys working for him to make sure he shelters all of his money. Who cares.

Well I care because I want experts who are not merely Romney's attornies scrutinizimg them to tell us whether the shelters were actually legal, if he's skating by on technicalities, if his deductions are reasonable and customary. You know, like if he deducted tens of thousands of dollars a year for things like a dancing horse.....

It just seems like he did everything he could to avoid paying his fair share of taxes and now want to run the place. It part of the new elite almost country less class. He does not pay taxes and he feels his kids should not service in the military. Wealth people benefit the most from a sound government(laws, courts, infrastructure, police force) and yet I don't think he cares about the US at all.

I will vote for Obama, not Romney, but I don't care about the tax returns. He is a rich guy and has tax attorneys working for him to make sure he shelters all of his money. Who cares.

That's not even the right question. Whether or not Mitt paid no income tax b/c of an accumulation of net business losses during the downturn doesn't interest me.

What interests me is how he transferred his fortune to his children without paying a cent in (much higher) gift taxes.

Mitt is allegedly worth $260 million. Yet, the managing director at Bain, the guy who co-owns the Boston Celtics, is worth twice that. It doesn't compute.

I think the older tax returns show evidence of nominal tax payments derived from a zeroed-out GRAT, which is the sort of shenanigan Mark Zuckerberg did with his Facebook shares. Of questionable legality

+1 People already assume that Mitt didn't pay income taxes so releasing them wouldn't necessarily do more damage if this was it. They don't want another story from his tax practices during the lead up to the recession. It would be likely that the practices (even if edgy but still technically legal) would be made analogous with the other abuses and excesses that led up to the financial collapse. Its one thing to be a tax cheat and quite another to be cast as an example of how corporate financial practices kicked off the recession.

Anonymous wrote:Mitt paid more taxes last year than obama has in his entire life

And he probably makes more in a day than I make in a year. Are you suggesting that there should be a flat amount paid rather than a (varying) percentage?

Anonymous wrote:Mitt paid more taxes last year than obama has in his entire life

What does last year have to do with anything?

Mitt paid more taxes last year than obama has in his entire life

jsteele wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Stephanopoulos asked Pawlenty how many returns Romney asked HIM to provide during the vetting for VP. He fumbled around and said he did not recall.

Priceless.

indeed.

Now McCain saw Romney's returns when he was vetted for VP. If Harry Reid's claims are false, why hasn't McCain stepped forward to assert that Romney did indeed pay his taxes? He has been entirely silent on the matter.

That isn't true, actually.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/mitt-romney-tax-returns_n_1680765.html

McCain hasn't been silent, but he also refused to say whether there were years that Romney didn't pay taxes, even when directly asked.

That's not even the right question. Whether or not Mitt paid no income tax b/c of an accumulation of net business losses during the downturn doesn't interest me.

What interests me is how he transferred his fortune to his children without paying a cent in (much higher) gift taxes.

Mitt is allegedly worth $260 million. Yet, the managing director at Bain, the guy who co-owns the Boston Celtics, is worth twice that. It doesn't compute.

I think the older tax returns show evidence of nominal tax payments derived from a zeroed-out GRAT, which is the sort of shenanigan Mark Zuckerberg did with his Facebook shares. Of questionable legality.

Anonymous wrote:...
Now McCain saw Romney's returns when he was vetted for VP. If Harry Reid's claims are false, why hasn't McCain stepped forward to assert that Romney did indeed pay his taxes? He has been entirely silent on the matter.

Quite likely there was a confidentiality agreement, and the returns were probably not kept after the decision was made. If McCain starts talking about the returns, where does he draw the line?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stephanopoulos asked Pawlenty how many returns Romney asked HIM to provide during the vetting for VP. He fumbled around and said he did not recall.

Priceless.

indeed.

Now McCain saw Romney's returns when he was vetted for VP. If Harry Reid's claims are false, why hasn't McCain stepped forward to assert that Romney did indeed pay his taxes? He has been entirely silent on the matter.

That isn't true, actually.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/mitt-romney-tax-returns_n_1680765.html

McCain hasn't been silent, but he also refused to say whether there were years that Romney didn't pay taxes, even when directly asked.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Stephanopoulos asked Pawlenty how many returns Romney asked HIM to provide during the vetting for VP. He fumbled around and said he did not recall.

Priceless.

indeed.

Now McCain saw Romney's returns when he was vetted for VP. If Harry Reid's claims are false, why hasn't McCain stepped forward to assert that Romney did indeed pay his taxes? He has been entirely silent on the matter.

That isn't true, actually.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/17/mitt-romney-tax-returns_n_1680765.html

Anonymous wrote:Stephanopoulos asked Pawlenty how many returns Romney asked HIM to provide during the vetting for VP. He fumbled around and said he did not recall.

Priceless.

indeed.

Now McCain saw Romney's returns when he was vetted for VP. If Harry Reid's claims are false, why hasn't McCain stepped forward to assert that Romney did indeed pay his taxes? He has been entirely silent on the matter.

Stephanopoulos asked Pawlenty how many returns Romney asked HIM to provide during the vetting for VP. He fumbled around and said he did not recall.

Priceless.