Romney Surrogate Says Romney Shouldn’t Release Tax Returns, People Should Just “Get Over It”
Romney campaign surrogate Jason Chaffetz (R), a Utah Representative, told The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza that Mitt Romney shouldn’t be forced to
release his tax returns, and that critics of the candidate’s decision to hide his millions should just “get over it.”
Here’s the exchange:
LIZZA: What’s your position on that? Should Governor Romney release all those tax returns? Right now he’s in a very unique position for a presidential candidate, he’s only released one year and a summary of 2011.
CHAFFETZ: Governor Romney has paid 100 percent of his taxes that are owed, he’s complied 100 percent what the law requires, um…
LIZZA: No I’m sorry Congressman, I was just asking if you think he should release them, not if he’s complied with the law. Should he release his tax returns?
CHAFFETZ: I think he has released the tax returns.
[Laughter]
LIZZA: Just yes or no, should he release them or not.
CHAFFETZ: No! No, I don’t…He’s been very successful, he’s released everything that he’s required to release, including paying more than 16 percent of his income to charitable givings. I think it’s a diversionary tactic. Most people, they don’t care about this. Governor Romney’s been very successful, get over it. It’s a reality.
So, as it stands, Romney’s surrogates aren’t even interested in pretending that their candidate is accountable to the American people. From where they sit, it’s perfectly fine for Romney to hide his Swiss bank account far away from prying eyes because that’s part of the privilege of being a member of the elite.
President Obama released his tax returns in April of 2012. It revealed that the president and his wife reported adjusted gross income of $789,674 in 2011, and paid just over 20 percent of it in federal taxes.
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Oh, get over it huh? Kinda like Hunkies should the Obama birthcertificate? Funny how things cha
nge once tables turn…
It’s only the poor people and the Democrats that are fooling the poor people complaining. No one is talking about the millions that Obama has.
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•Sankaty High Yield Asset Investors Ltd, based in Bermuda, was not listed on any of Romney’s state or federal financial reports
•The company is among several Romney holdings that have not been fully disclosed, including one that recently posted a $1.9 million earning
•Tax experts today said the lack of disclosure over the company means the public has no clear idea where Romney’s money is coming from
•White House hopeful’s campaign has been dogged by criticism that he is out of touch with average Americans due to his enormous wealth
This is not the entire article space may not permit to post the article, but Mitt Romney is hiding money in Bermuda and is not didn’t report it on his 2010 taxes, yes Romney should release all his TAXES, when you have money in Swissland, Cayman Island, and Bermuda.
Ya, As long as the Republicans were talking about Obama birth cert. are he isn’t an America you never heard anything but laughter. Oh but the SHOE is on the other foot now what are we hearing WINING-WINING-WINING. This country have lot’s and lot’s of IDIOTS anyone stand-in-line and VOTE for Mitt Romney which is a trillionair need their head chopped off and put in a bag. This man Mitt Romney know nothing about the middle class nor the poor this is not him he don’t know how to even talk to them all he does is talk against Obama. Never ever answer any question because he feel he don’t have to answer to anybody he never has and never will his money say so.
When and where did/does President Obama have millions hidden away in other countries? Please document this assertion that the Obamas are millionaires.
Sheese, you will believe anything and accept it as true as long as it gets rid of Obama. How could you be a lemming in today’s economic, hateful, and dyslexic cultures that could end the life of every human on the planet Earth? You need a basic civil education. Reading your blog, you do not come across as knowing anything but television ads. Hurry and start learning because each day of you espousing the truth while loving to thwart citizen rights as they refer to middle and lower classes is a lost day of your finite life.
Here’s a hint: Voters should closely check Romney’s income including the entire time he has been a politician.
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Oh, I’m sorry, but if it were my President Obama, then you would want him to release his tax records because he is African American and you don’t like him, but because ramen noodle is white or anglo saxon european, he doesn’t have to release his tax records due to white privilege, and we should just forget about it because he is a racists non-christian satanist. Oh, ok, well excuse me then I’ll forget about it. It’s one thing to be color blind and not be racist, but it’s another thing to operate purely on the bases of race.
If he don’t have nothing to hide,what is the problem?
Personally, I couldn’t care less who releases their tax returns and who doesn’t. And I’ll bet that a majority of Americans feel the same as I do. The tax return thing is just a ploy to try and keep the Romney campaign from talking about what a failure Obama has been as president so far. Obama has no record to brag about. That’s why he’s hitting Romney on totally stupid things that don’t amount to anything.