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Harry Reid: "Bain source says Romney paid no taxes for 10 years"

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MomentsofSanity said:
You do realize no one is saying he didn't file, right? The question is, are his claims that the rich are over taxed valid. If its found that, however legally, that he paid very little or no taxes than his entire premise is false. That is the question.
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So the fact that the document was filed isn't enough, you want to see the document with your own eyes?

(Hopefully you can see where I'm going with this.)
 
I heard from a credible source today that Harry Reid pays no taxes because he donates all his money to legal defense funds for child molesters and terrorists.

he won't release his tax returns, he must be hiding something.
 
Ldir said:
The two are totally different. Obama released his birth certificate years ago. Birther liars said it wasn't valid. Nothing Obama could do about those liars.
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Then you're OK with Romney releasing his tax returns a few years after he's been in office? 😀
 
loki8481 said:
I heard from a credible source today that Harry Reid pays no taxes because he donates all his money to legal defense funds for child molesters and terrorists.

he won't release his tax returns, he must be hiding something.
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Reid isn't running for President nor is he shunning the transparency precedence that every other Presidential Candidate has participated in.
 
EagleKeeper said:
did Obama provide his returns for the past 10 year?

Why is Romney being held to a different standard.
the majority of people would be unable to read/decipher his returns; some political hack will spin out a story and everyone believes it.
Look what happened here with all the Dem hacks jumping on his tax rate for 2010. They completely ignored why that tax rate existed because most do not utilize it.

Very few seem to understand capital gains, interest and bond income; yet they claim they make 6 figures.
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right here

http://www.barackobama.com/tax-returns/
 
loki8481 said:
I heard from a credible source today that Harry Reid pays no taxes because he donates all his money to legal defense funds for child molesters and terrorists.

he won't release his tax returns, he must be hiding something.
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I completely agree with you. The same source also said that Romney is in the same boat. We need to see their tax returns. when Reid runs for president we should force him to release his returns. For now lets just focus on Romney releasing his.
 
Anyways, the reason why there's a difference between requesting tax returns and requesting a college transcript is because tax policy is one of areas where Romney and Obama have such a huge political difference. Romney's own tax behavior would go a long way toward showing voters what kind of president he will be with respect to tax policy. I wouldn't get that same information from a fucking college transcript, or even better a long form birth certificate.

On the other hand, this quote by Reid is fucking gold. “I don't think the burden should be on me,” he said. “The burden should be on him. He's the one I've alleged has not paid any taxes.” Politics is hilarious until you realize that they're running the country.
 
Pr0d1gy said:
Romney is just giving his team enough time to doctor his tax documents so he can bullshit all of us again with more lies. If he had paid taxes properly he would have already released them. Just ask his father.
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You really need to get back on your medication, or off of whatever bad crack your smoking.

Doc Savage Fan said:
So Romney's team is "doctoring" his tax returns so he can bullshit all of us again with more lies. That's completely absurd.
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That's putting it kindly. Faking a return that someone from the IRS could easily come out and testify as being 'faked'??? The boy's a total tool.
 
TerryMathews said:
I never said he shouldn't provide the returns. I said you were hypocritical for demanding from one and not the other.
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Where exactly did I make this demand? You are confused. I feel if a politician is running on his financial prowess for the highest office in the land than it's not outrageous for him to follow precedent regarding tax information. Especially if that precedent was established by his father, whom he greatly loves and admires, and it is also something that those on both sides of isle are doing. Authoritarian repubs love the line "If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to worry about" well, time to "walk the talk" fellas...

TerryMathews said:
Every crazy conspiracy you throw out applies equally to both.
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I haven't thrown out any conspiracy theories, and that statement is absurd on it's own. I'd like to think suspicions about vast sums of hidden, untaxed wealth being inconvenient for Romney's spin machine is a lot more plausible than a time traveling Kenyan Muslim who took the White House as a Manchurian Candidate, but YMMV I suppose...


TerryMathews said:
Why didn't Obama want to release his birth certificate? What was he hiding?
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Avoiding fanning the fires of crazy perhaps, but it's immaterial in that his BC was released. I seem to recall the state of Hawaii being the ones that wouldn't release it, and even when they did many still wouldn't get over it. It's like Obama could predict no matter what he did it would make no difference to the more vocal nutjobs, how about that.
In case you missed it, Obama wasn't running on his school record in 2008. Romney however, it touting his business savvy and experience as the primary reason for why he should be President. Ok, show us. As other Repubs have said, 'his finances are fair game.'

TerryMathews said:
Do you honestly think the IRS wouldn't notice if he didn't file for 10 years?
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I have never said, or insinuated, that I do. I think it's quite more likely that he gamed the system for paltry tax rate, that he made out like a bandit while most of the country was getting kicked in the balls, and that ultimately it shows him to be more part of the problem rather than some kind of solution. I think Reid's comments were meant to goad Romney's camp into producing the returns, if he's wrong well they certainly have a way to prove it right? Unless...

At this point I find anonymous sources at Bain to be more credible than anything that comes out of Mitten's mouth, and it is entirely within his power to change that.
 
Comparing what Reid is doing to Romney as "birtherism" isn't fair. This is much more effective.
 
Ldir said:
You can always count on Republicons to be ignorant. Obama released his birth certificate before the 2008 election.
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I was joking around...apparently you missed the 😀 at the end of my statement.

I'll tell you one thing you can always count on...it's dumbasses being totally oblivious to their ignorance.
 
IAteYourMother said:
Anyways, the reason why there's a difference between requesting tax returns and requesting a college transcript is because tax policy is one of areas where Romney and Obama have such a huge political difference. Romney's own tax behavior would go a long way toward showing voters what kind of president he will be with respect to tax policy. I wouldn't get that same information from a fucking college transcript, or even better a long form birth certificate.

On the other hand, this quote by Reid is fucking gold. “I don't think the burden should be on me,” he said. “The burden should be on him. He's the one I've alleged has not paid any taxes.” Politics is hilarious until you realize that they're running the country.
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good grief...is that for real!?
 
Some people have said Obama spent $200 million/day on a trip to India

Oooops I thought I was Michelle Bachman and Fox News!

I have no trouble with Harry fighting fire with fire!
 
cybrsage said:
Come up with a rational reason for wanting to see the returns. Give it a shot. Prove to me that returners are not as loony as birthers, which is how they currently appear.
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Once again, your ignorance and trolling is amazing.

And once again, you can't argue my facts, or defend your posts, so you are changing points again and going for false equivalence (just like in the other thread where you claimed the GOP wasn't racists, then when proved wrong, you tried to say the DNC was racist).

You are doing the same here. Birthers are in no way shape or form similar to this tax records controversy and are irrelevant to Romney's situation.

First off, several Republican state officials all verified his birth certificate. Oops, forgot that did you? The whackos like you wouldn't accept that, so Obama released his actual birth certificate. All legal proof for his citizenship was correctly and appropriately provided, and it's the whacko's that refuse to believe the facts (hmmm, just like you).

Romney's tax records, are legally protected from the government disclosing them, so they cannot release or comment on them. So Romney needs to release them himself.

It was good enough for his father and 90% of all candidates since.....what makes Romney special enough to buck the trend? Perhaps some embarrassing information?

Romney doesn't have to release them, but bucking the trend of 30 years shows he is either hiding something or really doesn't care what we think. Either way, not good for a candidate to have people not like him. He is running for President, which means he is working for us, so why shouldn't he?

Again, you neo-con types love to defend wiretapping and the like with "if you have nothing to hide, why worry?"......so turnabout is fair play.....if Romney has nothing to hide, why refuse to release them?
 
Doc Savage Fan said:
But didn't Obama only release 6 years in 2008? What was he hiding? 😱
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Obama actually released 7 years at the time, and of course Romney has not even talked about doing that as of yet.

Of course the difference was it was extremely clear Obama was not that wealthy 7 years or more before he ran for President, and basically was a relatively normal guy income wise. This meant there was essentially no real public interest or concern about seeing tax returns from further back, unlike Romney's situation, although as noted he is currently insisting on supplying just 2 years of returns.
 
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