Romney releases taxes - Left angry because Mitt paid too much tax

I just read this - It is “galling to see the creative accounting Mitt Romney applied to his own tax returns. … It’s obvious he believes in two sets of rules: one for him, and one for the middle class,” said Reid, who has repeatedly claimed that Romney paid no taxes in some years. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/21/romney-paid-extra-taxes-in-2011-obamas-campaign-complains/#ixzz27CkUDxjY lmao seriously? creative accounting to pay more in taxes. Good golly these people are nuts.

Real journalism - a true oxymoron these days. Up there with government intelligence!

They aren't going to give up their narrative that he just did it to look good. Except, if they hadn't demanded he tell them, he wouldn't have released it and he wouldn't look so good. So, whose fault is that? Truth is, Romney never meant to release all this information about his charitable giving, they made him. Either he told them or he must be a criminal tax cheat. Now that the truth is not what they wanted it to be, they twist it to make it seem like he planned this for years, just so he could look like a good guy in 2012. I think there's a lot of undiagnosed mental illness in the media.

They are important only to answer the constant demands from the left to release them, while they spread rumors of tax evasion and perfidy. Remember, Romney didn't want to release this information. He didn't do it just to make himself look good. No one need know about his charitable nature if they hadn't demanded to see it and suggested that if they didn't, Romney must be a criminal. Yes, the media gets worked up over nothing. That's because their darling Obama is a lightweight on serious issues and worse, a real and present danger to the country. Everyone needs to realize that this is the most important election in our history and vote for the country and its future, not for the man or the party.

lilwonders, thanks. Yes, I read quite a bit after reading about the tax release. It seems many politicians on a state and federal level that increase their charity contributions when they know they are going to seek office. Good for charities but just another way to pull the wool over the eyes of the people they are supposed to serve (but they only serve themselves).

"Man, I like a guy who plans ahead that far" Romney has been running for public office since 2002. Has run for president twice. He knew his tax returns would be asked for...always are..standard procedure for politicans. so anyone pondering or positioning themselves for public office (not just president) knows they need their tax records to look good. You don't wake up one day and decide you are going to run for public office tomorrow...at least not a high office (president,governor, senator, etc...) You usually have to position yourself that way within your party..which takes time and money. So yeah...he planned ahead. And he had known for years he wanted to run for president so in in between elections he would be making sure everything looked good and would in place for his next run. Politicans are always thinking ahead...they have to or they dont last long.

They created a narrative. They figured to use the tax returns question all the way through to the debates. Romney's returns should have put an end to it, but they are so deranged, they find ways to make his paying taxes and giving to charity part of some evil plot. There are people on thorazine who have fewer hallucinations and delusions.

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Obama is a manufactured president and candidate. And it is starting to fall apart on him as people wake up. And they ARE waking up despite what our liberal myLot friends think. They've been ignoring the alternative news sources and still trust the MSM to paint their worldview for them, then pat themselves on the back for being 'better informed' than me or you cause 'we all know' how unreliable those sources are, 'we all know' that the Malkins and Breitbart readers are stupid to believe the right wing blogs. http://washingtonexaminer.com/morning-examiner-the-obama-you-dont-know/article/2508540 http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topics/washington-examiner-blows-huge-hole-in-obama-s-fake-biography http://www.blackchristiannews.com/news/2012/09/watch-bishop-ew-jacksons-message-to-black-christians---abandon-the-democratic-party.html You can show the liberals all the videos of Obama saying one thing and then saying the opposite, or spinning what he said, or out right lying and insisting he didn't say it, and they will not believe what you show them. They'll tell you, don't trust that link, it's YOUTUBE....as if a video of Obama's FACE and VOICE can somehow be faked. LOL I'm spending less and less time on myLot simply because of the liberals who try to 'debate' without facts, who want to make all of it about Bush, who think cause their in college and are 'rational' not 'emotional' they know more, who think links you provide are bogus (but aren't trying to offend you by saying so) cause the MSM and Obama say they shouldn't trust these sources. I'm tired of people who do not have a clue. It just isn't worth it to spend days on here trying to show someone the truth when they'd rather believe a lie.

When you paid your 14% was the check you wrote to the IRS in the six figures? There's a huge difference between your 14% and Romney's 13% and it isn't the number 1.

So Aida, if you filed separately, then you voluntarily paid more taxes than you needed to. Another reason why our tax code needs to be reformed, the penalty for married, filing separately. "And it is only charity if he got NOTHING for it.. no recognition, no tax deduction, etc. " In that case, nothing that anyone gave to charity is really charity because they all get a tax deduction for it, which they are entitled to by law. In Romney's case, he didn't take the full deduction he is entitled to because he made a pledge never to pay less than a certain tax rate. As for recognition, it wasn't Romney's idea to release all this information that makes him look like such a saintly and generous person. He tried to avoid that. But no, the press wouldn't let him, the Obama campaign wouldn't let him. They kept insisting that he release his tax returns, bring it all out into the open.

So if Aida and her husband paid 30% COLLECTIVELY, then they INDIVIDUALLY paid about the same as Romney..15%.