The White House re-election campaign wants to make a deal. In exchange for GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney releasing five years of tax returns, they will stop criticizing him for not releasing more. While hiding behind the skirt of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, the White House campaign alleges there may be as many as ten years when Romney evaded paying income taxes.
Romney says that over the past decade he has paid at least 13 percent in federal income taxes. According to the Joint Committee on Taxation, a non-partisan group, middle income families average paying 12.8 percent in federal income tax.
http://news.yahoo.com/obama-campaign-offers-romney-5-tax-disclosure-114057169.html
Critics complain that Romney pays too few taxes. At his income level, Romney pays plenty of taxes. Romney made every penny he has. Hence every dime he uses to make investments has already been taxed at wage income rates. Romney pays a lower tax rate than wage earners because a majority of his income comes from investments, which are taxed at a lower rate than wages. Investment income is taxed at a lower rate because, unlike wages, investments are at risk.
If Romney was guilty of income tax evasion, the IRS would already be after him and his campaign for the White House would long be over. The IRS falls within the Department of Treasury. At the behest of the White House, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the IRS would be all over Romney like a ravenous pack of hyenas.
Romney has released his 2010 tax records and vowed to release his 2011 returns. That matches the number of returns released in 2008 by Senator John McCain when he was the GOP candidate. The number of tax returns released by McCain was never an issue.
This is not Let’s Make A Deal, and David Axelrod is not Monty Hall. For Mitt Romney only a booby prize or worse waits behind curtain number three.
This bait and switch by the White House and their “progressive” co-conspirators is more than simply a distraction from the issues.
Throughout a shadowy, veiled, mystery shrouded political career where his own past has been intentionally concealed, obtaining confidential information about political opponents and distorting that information to smear them has been the signature move of this candidate.
Remember, the current Oval Office occupier is the same clandestine, shadowy figure caught in an open-mic moment with then Russian president Dmitry Medvedev saying that after his re-election he would have “more flexibility”.
Flexibility for…?
Three members of a Russian punk band were found guilty and sentenced to two years in jail for protesting against Russian president Vladamir Putin. The band members were arrested on March 3rd and charged with “hooliganism”. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 have been in jail ever since.
What kind of flexibility is this secretive, anti-business, hostile to constitutionally protected individual Liberty White House promising to a Russian president who imprisons people for free speech?
Is this flexibility related to the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Security Administration, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Internal Revenue Service each purchasing multi-thousands of rounds of hollow point bullets?
Could this flexibility include plans to tighten the iron grip of power by imposing Martial Law and suspending elections to ensure he can finish the “fundamental transformation” of America through the imposition of a form of government completely foreign to every principle espoused by its Founding Fathers?
By agreeing to release any additional tax returns, Mitt Romney would be making a crucial mistake. Let the White House re-election campaign go into grand mal seizure. Let them scream like banshees and howl at the moon. Let them cry like babies. Let them wet themselves. Let them posture, threaten, intimidate and bully. You can bet your underwater sub-prime mortgage they will do anything, be it lie, cheat and steal to win this election.
To borrow a phrase from another popular television game show: No deal.
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Lots of great comments!
Make a deal with Axelrod?.... Who says the CPUSA doesn't have a sense of humor. Axelrod, mistakenly, thinks he is operating from a position of power; Au contraire, Axelrod, you are negoiating from a position of weakness Kind of reminds me when Nitkita K. wanted a "troika" to make decisions instead of the UN Security Council. Oh, by the way, isn't Security Council an oxymoron?
David Farrar,..Wow!,..Man,..what depth,..Here! Here!,..
So,..you want to see more of my tax return's?,..We want to see your un-edited college transcript's,..sound's fair,..
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! ROMNEY'S TAX RETURNS BE DAMNED! Americans DEMAND that COMMUNIST Obama and his ass kissing far left media press get back on the subjects at hand such as the conomy, America's over-spending us into total bankruptcy, Obamacare, Obama over running that worthless Congress in opening the borders, unsealing all of that "Mancurian Candidate's records, The subject of B.O.'s citizenship eligilibility, the opening of all DHS records, etcetera, etcetera! What the HELL has America come to!!! Have we all become "SHEEPLE" slaves to those in the Black House??? VIVA LE REVOLUTION!!!! VOTE A STRAGHT REPUBLICAN TICKET, and if that doesn't work we will then use other means!!!!
Avoiding income taxes is not unethical nor illegal. Slander is unethical and illegal. Obama is a criminal as far as i can see. Romney tax returns do not concern me at all. Obama's mental retardation has every one in the nation ready to kick his ass to hell and back. And they issue is some old tax returns, Get real.
its just more diversionary tactics.to try and deflect discussion away from the real important issues that Americans care about, jobs,jobs and more jobs.reeling in insane spending.reducing government.and getting this jerk out of OUR WHITE HOUSE !!!
Romney is a PRIVATE citizen who has shared private information.
Where Junior are your college records that previous presidents have provided?
Your's buster are under lock and key to the tune of million of bucks.
You need to STHU and have Alexrot and company tell America about your wonderful record from the last four years of a reign of failures.
Quite frankly, you need to be told, you are an incompetent hire that in the private world would be escoted to your car in the parking lot.
In your world, you will be escorted to a helicopter in January 2013 so you can return to your glory days a community organizer in Chicago.
For someone who has total control of the treasury department, i.e. IRS, why don’t they just leak Romney’s tax information like they did with our national secrets? Why? The answer is very simple; this is not about tax records. It’s about this president’s present record… he has none. Hell! He doesn’t even have past records. Who the hell is this guy? That’s the answer we should be looking for. We need to expose this guy to the American people.
Many years ago; when I was a young man, if I applied for a job, depending on how badly I wanted the job, I would just about give the prospective employer anything that he asked for. I truly believe that if these people really want the job, they should be willing to present just about anything the public might want to see. In Ovomit's own words, those who have something to hide will indeed try to keep it hidden!
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