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Mitt Romney: 'I Never Paid Less Than 13 Percent' In Taxes

He won't and there's a good reason.

The longer Romney refuses to release the more people will think he's hiding something. That casts him not only as secretive, but dishonest. Why would a candidate break a transparency tradition that every candidate in the modern era has freely done?

Because there's something really bad in there. Romney's refusal is actively helping Obama's campaign cast suspicion on Romney's finances and honesty. You don't help your opponent label you as being out of touch, secretive and dishonest unless proving them wrong releases something far worse then not paying much legally.

How many campaigns have you seen where candidate A helped candidate B spread a nasty rumor about candidate A?

Romney's making it worse for him. That alone tells me there's something much worse then not paying much legally.

Does it? What do you know about the Mormons? Based on the literature I've read on them, they tend to be a very devout faith. Can you guess why? Well, to put it simply, due to the date of their founding you can cite and make inferences(based on the history of) any prominent person in their history. This has lead to numerous academics debunking various portions of their religion. All this tells us something very important: You have to be either really or devout really uninformed for this faith to hold any weight in your mind - I'm certain a person like Romney isn't the latter of the two.

So going on the assumption that Romney is a devout Mormon, he obviously holds the values of a Mormon. The Mormons(aside from the religion's leaders) are a squeaky clean group of people(if you want proof, go look at BYU or the CIA recruiters in Provo). I don't think he's done anything he needs to hide, he merely wants to keep his obscene income out of the public eye in an effort to seem more relateable - and an effort to try and make his interests look aligned with ours. :thinking
 
Didn't McCain just release a couple of years worth of records? McCain started the trend of not releasing 7-10 years worth of records.
When Obama was running against Clinton in the primary, didn't he release more only to force Hilary to release more?
Though not running for the Office of the President, Reid won't release more. He says he reports his income as required by Congress. The public has no need to know more.

Guess I will ask, why would it matter that Romney payed X amount of tax versus Y amount as long as the taxs were not broken?

I would venture a guess that releasing his tax forms will not change the minds of those who oppose Romney.

Ask Congress to change the tax code if you don't like the current laws.
 

Nothing in my post was about Mormons.

Not even sure how you got that link.

Romney's likely has a tax scandal in 2009. I'd bet hard money it's the UBS tax shelter.

It's a well known fact Mormons tithe lots. That doesn't bother me (and I doubt it bothers many either).

But a full on tax shelter illegal scandal? That's something else.
 
Or... maybe.... the only people who care aren't going to vote for him anyways.

This is birther all over again.

Maybe.

Obama refusing to release cast suspicion the same way that Romney refusing casts suspicion. But Obama did release. Romney flat out stated he will not. And former presidents and candidates have released in droves. Breaking a tradition of openness at the same time refusing to release likely the only year that really matters does not bode well.

IMO, and in many other tax professionals, there's only really one thing in 2009 that's worse than having people think you paid next to nothing: The UBS tax shelter scandal.

I have never seen a campaign keep fueling a rumor by their opponents that is so easily refuted for so long. Furthermore, Romney knows that people who understand taxes know he paid. There's no question like that, at BEST he got away with one year of no taxes via using all his losses and even then that's hard to do. So he then pushes those who understand into thinking, what could possibly be worse then paying very little and was before 2010? This is a low target environment. It doesn't take much to narrow it down as to what Romney would not want people to know. And if I was him, I'd want you to think I used high powered tax attorneys to pay very little then own up to the UBS scandal. I don't blame him at ALL for not releasing and if I was him, I'd let the democrats go hog wild on me then release.

Romney and his supporters should know that those in the know don't need for Romney to release to figure out what's really bothering him about releasing his returns. We can figure it out ourselves.

I'd really love to get an answer from someone here on this question:

How many campaigns have you seen where candidate A helped candidate B spread a nasty rumor about candidate A?
 
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