{"id":30248,"date":"2012-09-13T21:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T03:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/tax-return-revelations-for-thee-but-not-for-me.html"},"modified":"2012-09-13T21:08:21","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T03:08:21","slug":"tax-return-revelations-for-thee-but-not-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/tax-return-revelations-for-thee-but-not-for-me.html","title":{"rendered":"Tax return revelations for thee, but not for me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So VP applicants had to show Mitt&#39;s vetting team a decade of tax returns, but for Mitt to show more than last year and this year&#39;s return would be too controversial and privacy-destroying.<\/p>\n<p>Um &#8230; got it, Mitt.<\/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%2Fwww.thedailybeast.com%2Farticles%2F2012%2F09%2F13%2Fromney-asked-vp-shortlisters-for-ten-years-of-tax-returns%2F_jcr_content%2Fimage.img.200.jpg%2F1347526017704.cached.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:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2012\/09\/13\/romney-asked-vp-shortlisters-for-ten-years-of-tax-returns.html'>Romney Asked VP Shortlisters for Ten Years of Tax Returns<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRomney asked at least some on his short list to submit 10 years worth of tax returns, a source says. Daniel Klaidman reports on the disconnect with Mitt\u2019s own public disclosures.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Tr6cZP6j17h' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So VP applicants had to show Mitt&#39;s vetting team a decade of tax returns, but for Mitt to show more than last year and this year&#39;s return would be too controversial and privacy-destroying. Um &#8230; got it, Mitt. Embedded Link Romney Asked VP Shortlisters for Ten Years of Tax Returns Romney asked at least some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/13\/tax-return-revelations-for-thee-but-not-for-me.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tax return revelations for thee, but not for me&#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_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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30248","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":28914,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/12\/tax-returns-for-me-but-not-for-thee.html","url_meta":{"origin":30248,"position":0},"title":"Tax returns for me but not for thee","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 12-Aug-12 1:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So, Mitt, please 'splain: \u00a0if tax returns aren't important, and a big ado about nothing, and certainly nothing that the electorate need to see ... then why did your team vetting VP candidates examine \"several years\" of tax returns from those candidates. \u00a0Not just last year's and estimates of this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":25717,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/25\/so-why-should-romney-release-more-tax-information.html","url_meta":{"origin":30248,"position":1},"title":"So why should Romney release more tax information?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jan-12 4:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Largely because he's made such a stink about not releasing it. 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