{"id":29066,"date":"2012-08-06T09:38:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T15:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/mitt-taxes-and-hypocrisy.html"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:31:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T15:31:15","slug":"mitt-taxes-and-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/mitt-taxes-and-hypocrisy.html","title":{"rendered":"Mitt, taxes, and hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt&#39;s been playing the &quot;no tax returns&quot; card for years. And yet he&#39;s attacked his <i>opponents<\/i> on just this ground (see video around 6:30). \u00a0And yet, he&#39;s more than happy to assert what&#39;s in those returns (around 9:00). \u00a0&quot;Trust me &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsnbcmedia2.msn.com%2Fj%2FMSNBC%2FComponents%2FVideo%2F__NEW%2Fn_maddow_1putup_120803.standard.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/video.msnbc.msn.com\/the-rachel-maddow-show\/48497159#48497159'>Romney demanded past opponents to release tax returns<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tVideo on msnbc.com: Rachel Maddow points out the seemingly double-standard in the saga over Mitt Romney\u2019s tax returns after finding multiple instances in which Romney attacked his political opponents &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'><strong>Google+:<\/strong> Reshared <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/61wUBTvG9RN' target='_new'>1<\/a> times<br \/> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/61wUBTvG9RN' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitt&#39;s been playing the &quot;no tax returns&quot; card for years. And yet he&#39;s attacked his opponents on just this ground (see video around 6:30). \u00a0And yet, he&#39;s more than happy to assert what&#39;s in those returns (around 9:00). \u00a0&quot;Trust me &#8230;&quot; Embedded Link Romney demanded past opponents to release tax returns Video on msnbc.com: Rachel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/mitt-taxes-and-hypocrisy.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mitt, taxes, and hypocrisy&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133043,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/14\/the-tale-of-the-tax-returns.html","url_meta":{"origin":29066,"position":0},"title":"The Tale of the Tax Returns!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 14-Mar-17 7:54pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, one year of tax returns. Somehow (I've not watched yet) Rachel Maddow got hold of Donald Trump's 2015 1040. 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