Pressure is mounting for Mitt Romney to reveal more of his tax returns. His presidential rival, Barack Obama, has made public his filings dating back to 2000. But Republican Romney has disclosed just one year so far: 2010 (he also released an incomplete estimate for 2011). Even if he has nothing to hide, should Romney give up his privacy rights? Or should he meet a higher standard of disclosure as a candidate for the highest office?
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*reminder* get out and vote for Barack Obama this year... well, unless your set on the Governor.. I'm an American.. get out there and vote and participate in this wonderful process we have no matter who you feel represents your core values best,... there is nothing to fear.. if your candidate doesn't win, you still get to participate.. it's a great country that way.
In addition, a number of prominent Republicans (Gov. Haley Barbour, Gov. Rick Perry, Rep. Pete Sessions, ect., ect.) have suggested Romney should release additional years of tax returns. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/07/17/republicans-step-up-calls-for-romney-to-release-more-tax-returns/
His tax returns are important because he is running on his record as a businessman so it only fair we see how he handles his business. not only that, it would prove or disprove his contention that he left Bain 1999 (which we already know is a lie). let's give it a little perspective, when his Dad ran, he released 12 yrs worth of returns. In 2008 McCain released 23 yrs worth of returns and Obama released 12yrs. common sense says that whatever is in those returns in more damaging than the considerable damage he is taking now, which tells me there is something in there he doesn't want people to see, like this: Romney's Stericycle made money from abortion clinics http://current.com/blog/93830148_romneys-stericycle-made-money-from-abortion-clinics.htm Bringing up Ayers (never convicted of anything unlike McCain's good buddy G. Gordon Liddy and that's a fact) and Davis show us you really have nothing to work with except fear, smear and lies.
Please refrain from personal attacks and name calling. This explicitly banned by our Terms of Use (http://mercerisland.patch.com/terms). I would appreciate it if you both refactored your comments and omitted those. The points you make are powerful enough without having to resort to that kind of language. Thanks.
You know nothing about me but because I have the unmitigated gall, the audacity to ask you a simple question I must be some sort of 'merica hatin', obama-lovin' welfare sucking, filthy hippy commie in need of a lecture of what it means to be a true patriot like yourself. You know this how? Because I asked you a simple question. Do you want to know something factual, non-partisan about me? I have a honorable discharge from the US Army. What branch of the service is yours from? Have a nice evening
yeah that's what I thought...............
It will be interesting to see if Romney can figure out a way to avoid releasing his taxes, but so far he's been clumsy, clumsy, clumsy.
If Romney has nothing to hide, he should have defused the situation by releasing his returns. His wife said in a TV interview that releasing more returns would lead to more attacks, which suggests something is there. I don't think there's any need to speculate because I think the Republican establishment will insist that he release his tax returns. It's not for me to decide; it's for the public to decide what's disqualifying and problematic. I don't think the public cares about (or even remembers) Billy Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. Their masterpiece, "Prairie Fire," is well worth reading as a prime example of political psychosis. What I don't understand is all the armchair geneologists who have decided Obama wasn't born in the U.S. NOW is the time to challenge a candidate's qualifications for office AT THE STATE LEVEL. If only one state refuses to place Obama on the ballot because he isn't a natural born citizen (Article 2, Section 1) that sets up a court challenge that decides the matter. As a federal court judge has ruled, once a President is elected, the courts have no authority to remove him/her. It's put-up-or-shut-up time for those who have and are going to continue to tell us that Obama wasn't born in the United States. They need to challenge his inclusion on ballots in all 50 states and see what happens. This is the LAST opportunity to get a formal determination of Obama's citizenship. Act now, or they must forever hold their peace.
Then I would challenge Obama to do the same along with Michelle, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. If they didn't then I would beat them with that cudgel every time they brought up some stupid thing they mined out of that doc dump. The bottom line is that the massively hypocritical democrat 'leadership' is never going to get the same scrutiny that the Republican or other party candidate will experience. The media lapdogs are going to dig into things no matter. Then they'll spend a week talking about how much the Romney's spend on blah or foo and oh the horrors of how the rich just screw everyone...