Author Topic: It's Starting To Look Like Romney Has A Dirty Tax Secret (Read 952 times)

blacken700 · « **on:** July 06, 2012, 10:15:05 AM »

Mitt Romney has so far released only one year of tax returns (2010), plus an estimate for 2011. This stands in stark contrast to his father, Michigan Governor George Romney, who released 12 years of tax returns when he began running for President in 1967. As his father said at the time, "One year could be a fluke." So the questions remain about what is in Romney's older returns.

Two stories this week and last have ratcheted up the pressure. One is a recent web exclusive for "The Last Word with Laurence O'Donnell" where David Cay Johnston has five questions for Romney that can only be answered with his tax returns. The other is a blockbuster story by Nicholas Shaxson (h/t TPM) in the new Vanity Fair on the shadowy world of Romney's tax havens. Together, they put a laser-like focus on the finances of the man who could become our 45th President.

Johnston is a well-known former New York Times reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner, and the author of the major books Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch. If you don't have time to watch his 3:45 video, here are the five questions:

"1. Did you buy any illegal or gray area tax shelters?
"2. Did an IRS audit ever uncover serious problems with any of your tax returns?
"3. Did you make use of offshore vehicles to defer, or avoid paying, federal income taxes?
"4. Did you take advantage of any tax strategies that the IRS did not uncover in audits?
"5. Did you fully tithe to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints every year and take a deduction on your tax return that shows that?"

...

Shaxson, a researcher for the Tax Justice Network and author of the book Treasure Islands, asks us to consider the possibility that maybe not everything Romney has done tax-wise has been legal. He opens with a story told by a former Bain employee about how Romney encouraged him to lie to get secret information on competitors. There is, of course, the fact that Romney has funds parked in numerous tax havens and the fact that his supposedly "blind" trust invested in a business started by Romney's son Tagg, and the fact that he has $102 million in his IRA despite a contribution limit of $2000 per year for the entire 15 years Romney ran Bain. Obviously nothing to see here...

http://www.businessinsider.com/its-starting-to-look-like-romney-has-a-dirty-tax-secret-2012-7

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #1 on:** July 06, 2012, 10:19:33 AM »

LOL - now you care about a presidential candidate relasing his records?

blacken700 · « **Reply #2 on:** July 06, 2012, 10:22:08 AM »

lol he released his records,it's the simpletons like yourself that don't them

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #3 on:** July 06, 2012, 10:23:37 AM »

Quote from: blacken700 on July 06, 2012, 10:22:08 AM

lol he released his records,it's the simpletons like yourself that don't them

If R-Money committed no crimes - what do you care?

blacken700 · « **Reply #4 on:** July 06, 2012, 10:25:44 AM »

if he didn't, i don't care

Straw Man · « **Reply #5 on:** July 06, 2012, 10:27:28 AM »

Quote from: 333386 on July 06, 2012, 10:19:33 AM

LOL - now you care about a presidential candidate relasing his records?

Romney won't release the names of his bundlers

Doesn't that piss you off ?

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #6 on:** July 06, 2012, 10:28:38 AM »

Quote from: Straw Man on July 06, 2012, 10:27:28 AM

Romney won't release the names of his bundlers

Doesn't that piss you off ?

Sure - but Obama did the same bs w the credit card verification stuff last time from overseas.

OzmO · « **Reply #7 on:** July 06, 2012, 11:43:28 AM »

if Romney doesn't release his grades from kindergarten its likely he wasn't even born in the USA.

GigantorX · « **Reply #8 on:** July 06, 2012, 12:19:32 PM »

Quote from: 333386 on July 06, 2012, 10:28:38 AM

Sure - but Obama did the same bs w the credit card verification stuff last time from overseas.

Touche. He was taking cash from anybody, anyone, anything and any whatever.

Straw Man · « **Reply #9 on:** July 06, 2012, 12:34:08 PM »

Quote from: GigantorX on July 06, 2012, 12:19:32 PM

Touche. He was taking cash from anybody, anyone, anything and any whatever.

weird that no Republican bothered to demand an investigation

Dos Equis · « **Reply #10 on:** July 06, 2012, 12:41:52 PM »

I want to see his 11th grade math grades and SAT scores too.

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #11 on:** July 06, 2012, 12:45:07 PM »

Quote from: Beach Bum on July 06, 2012, 12:41:52 PM

I want to see his 11th grade math grades and SAT scores too.

Mittens already released his transcripts from harvard and SAT scores. He is far more accomplished academically than Obama.

240 is Back · « **Reply #12 on:** July 06, 2012, 01:15:18 PM »

Quote from: 333386 on July 06, 2012, 12:45:07 PM

Mittens already released his transcripts from harvard and SAT scores. He is far more accomplished academically than Obama.

obama has a law degree from harvard. what a total dumbass.

Dos Equis · « **Reply #13 on:** July 06, 2012, 01:17:40 PM »

Quote from: 333386 on July 06, 2012, 12:45:07 PM

Mittens already released his transcripts from harvard and SAT scores. He is far more accomplished academically than Obama.

I was kidding. It's a shame he felt compelled to do that.

240 is Back · « **Reply #14 on:** July 06, 2012, 01:23:03 PM »

i dont understand why we don't see EVERYTHING about a presidential candidate.

people want to be the most powerful person ON THE PLANET - and they won't release their income, where they got their money? the fuck?

they want to contol the nuclear football - but don't want to do a damn brain and body scan so we can know if someone has a huge tumor or lung cancer or some other ailment which may change long-term decision making?

IMO, you wanna be president, you should face a polygraph with 100 questions from 100 of your toughest critics. Ask obama about birthplace with nationwide audience seeing the live answers. Ask mittens if he believes a socialist america would really be better for everyone.

open it up. I don't get ppl saying "no, we didn't need to know mccain's health" or obama's educaiton/birth. They rule our lives, and we don't want to properly vet them? WTF?

garebear · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2012, 05:43:20 AM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on July 06, 2012, 01:23:03 PM

i dont understand why we don't see EVERYTHING about a presidential candidate.

people want to be the most powerful person ON THE PLANET - and they won't release their income, where they got their money? the fuck?

they want to contol the nuclear football - but don't want to do a damn brain and body scan so we can know if someone has a huge tumor or lung cancer or some other ailment which may change long-term decision making?

IMO, you wanna be president, you should face a polygraph with 100 questions from 100 of your toughest critics. Ask obama about birthplace with nationwide audience seeing the live answers. Ask mittens if he believes a socialist america would really be better for everyone.

open it up. I don't get ppl saying "no, we didn't need to know mccain's health" or obama's educaiton/birth. They rule our lives, and we don't want to properly vet them? WTF?

Do you think they should show us there peckers (no homo)?

240 is Back · « **Reply #16 on:** July 07, 2012, 09:38:36 AM »

Quote from: garebear on July 07, 2012, 05:43:20 AM

Do you think they should show us there peckers (no homo)?

Sure. I'm not interested in seeing junk - but - a man with a 2 inch penis is going to make decisions under the guise of being insecure for the last 4 decades.

garebear · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2012, 09:39:34 AM »

*their

whork · « **Reply #18 on:** July 09, 2012, 03:08:23 AM »

Quote from: 240 is Back on July 06, 2012, 01:23:03 PM

i dont understand why we don't see EVERYTHING about a presidential candidate.

people want to be the most powerful person ON THE PLANET - and they won't release their income, where they got their money? the fuck?

they want to contol the nuclear football - but don't want to do a damn brain and body scan so we can know if someone has a huge tumor or lung cancer or some other ailment which may change long-term decision making?

IMO, you wanna be president, you should face a polygraph with 100 questions from 100 of your toughest critics. Ask obama about birthplace with nationwide audience seeing the live answers. Ask mittens if he believes a socialist america would really be better for everyone.

open it up. I don't get ppl saying "no, we didn't need to know mccain's health" or obama's educaiton/birth. They rule our lives, and we don't want to properly vet them? WTF?

+1

Soul Crusher · « **Reply #19 on:** July 09, 2012, 03:10:20 AM »

Quote from: whork on July 09, 2012, 03:08:23 AM

+1

Yet people like yourself don't give a shit in 2008 when Obama hid everything. Typical Obama slave you are.

whork · « **Reply #20 on:** July 09, 2012, 03:36:02 AM »

Quote from: 333386 on July 09, 2012, 03:10:20 AM

Yet people like yourself don't give a shit in 2008 when Obama hid everything. Typical Obama slave you are.

Do you have a crush on Obama? Or was your girlfriend cheating with a black guy?

LurkerNoMore · « **Reply #21 on:** July 09, 2012, 07:03:47 AM »

Quote from: whork on July 09, 2012, 03:36:02 AM

Do you have a crush on Obama? Or was your girlfriend cheating with a black guy?

Obama owns real estate in the barren space that he calls his head.