Did Romney really pay no federal income taxes for 10 years?
Warring over tax returns
By Eugene Robinson, WashPost, Published: August 6
Mitt Romney’s defiant secrecy about his personal finances looks like a cross Republicans will have to bear all the way to Election Day. To put it mildly, the burden seems to chafe.
Apoplexy is not the tone politicians generally seek to project. Yet there was GOP chief Reince Priebus on ABC’s “This Week,” calling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a “dirty liar” for his claim about how little Romney may have paid in taxes. There was Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on CNN’s “State of the Union,” saying of Reid, “I think he’s lying.” There was Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” decrying a “reckless and slanderous charge by Harry Reid.”
It was a coordinated Sunday morning display of righteous indignation, a pageant of scenery-chewing. But in making such a show of denouncing Dirty Harry’s foul calumny, all Republicans succeeded in doing was draw attention to Romney’s stubborn refusal to release more than a year’s worth of tax returns (okay, one year and sort of a second) — and guarantee more coverage of Reid’s claims.
Reid was a boxer in his youth, and what he did to Romney was the equivalent of a head butt. He claimed to have a “source” — someone who had business with Bain Capital, the private-equity firm Romney ran — who told him Romney paid no federal income taxes for 10 years.
(More here.)
Mitt Romney’s defiant secrecy about his personal finances looks like a cross Republicans will have to bear all the way to Election Day. To put it mildly, the burden seems to chafe.
Apoplexy is not the tone politicians generally seek to project. Yet there was GOP chief Reince Priebus on ABC’s “This Week,” calling Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid a “dirty liar” for his claim about how little Romney may have paid in taxes. There was Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on CNN’s “State of the Union,” saying of Reid, “I think he’s lying.” There was Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” decrying a “reckless and slanderous charge by Harry Reid.”
It was a coordinated Sunday morning display of righteous indignation, a pageant of scenery-chewing. But in making such a show of denouncing Dirty Harry’s foul calumny, all Republicans succeeded in doing was draw attention to Romney’s stubborn refusal to release more than a year’s worth of tax returns (okay, one year and sort of a second) — and guarantee more coverage of Reid’s claims.
Reid was a boxer in his youth, and what he did to Romney was the equivalent of a head butt. He claimed to have a “source” — someone who had business with Bain Capital, the private-equity firm Romney ran — who told him Romney paid no federal income taxes for 10 years.
(More here.)
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If Romney broke the law he should be behind bars. Where is the cry for putting Mr. Geithner behind bars from liberals? Doublespeak or double standards?
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