{"id":25717,"date":"2012-01-25T16:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-25T23:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/so-why-should-romney-release-more-tax-information.html"},"modified":"2012-01-25T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T01:55:19","slug":"so-why-should-romney-release-more-tax-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/so-why-should-romney-release-more-tax-information.html","title":{"rendered":"So why should Romney release more tax information?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Largely because he's made such a stink about not<\/i> releasing it. Yes, he's concerned (at least) with it "looking bad" or "giving ammunition" to his critics — but that makes it sound like it's even more<\/i> important for him to do so.<\/p>\n

And, to look at it from a different perspective, Romney turned over 23 years of tax records to McCain when the latter was considering Romney as a VP candidate — why would the public warrant only one year? And, of course, there's the example of his father, who sums it up perfectly below. #ddtb<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +Think Progress<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mitt Romney has released just one year of his taxes. When his father ran for president in 1968 he released 12 years of his taxes, stating "One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show."<\/p>\n

If you think it's time for Romney to come clean and release 12 years of returns, sign this petition:<\/b> http:\/\/thkpr.gs\/zSYGEK<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis is what we've learned about Mitt Romney from just one year of his tax returns. His father released 12 years of his taxes when he ran for president in 1968, stating "One year could be a f…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

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Largely because he's made such a stink about not releasing it. Yes, he's concerned (at least) with it "looking bad" or "giving ammunition" to his critics — but that makes it sound like it's even more important for him to do so. And, to look at it from a different perspective, Romney turned over 23 … Continue reading “So why should Romney release more tax information?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-25717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25776,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/28\/romney-tries-being-not-so-rich-and-tax-coddled.html","url_meta":{"origin":25717,"position":0},"title":"Romney tries being not so rich and tax-coddled","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 28-Jan-12 10:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"Or at least tries convincing us he's not, by incorrectly mauling numbers to make it seem like he's paying 50% income tax.Only in your worst dreams, Mitt.He must be getting really worried about Newt. #ddtbReshared post from +David McGirrMitt Romney attempting to backpedal. 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