Wednesday - July 18, 2012

I’d Go With Reason #6

Romney digs in his heels even as some Republicans say it’s time for him to give the public a better look at his personal finances

With President Obama’s campaign hammering Mitt Romney over his personal finances, even some Republicans have begun calling for the presumptive GOP nominee to release more than two years of his tax returns. Conservative political analysts say Romney is allowing people to assume he has something to hide. “It’s crazy” not to release several more years of returns, “tomorrow,” says William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard. Despite the pressure, Romney said Monday on Fox News that he was releasing his 2010 and 2011 returns, and nothing more.

Wait, what? You run the headline Why Romney Won’t Release His Tax Returns: 6 Theories, and in the very first paragraph you’re telling us that he is actually releasing his tax returns? Some of them? Misleading headline, much?

So you make up a list of maybes, pure supposition, and you then call this news? You’ve got to be kidding me.
1. Romney is really rich, therefore evil.
2. Romney is really rich, therefore evil, and can afford the best accountants, thereby not paying any taxes at all and thus more evil.
3. Romney is really rich, therefore evil, and therefore his riches came from exploiting everyone else, legally or illegally, therefore he has something to hide. Which makes him more evil.
4. Romney is really rich, therefore evil, but he’s one of those sex cultist morons Mormons, so he probably does that perverted tithing thing, and seeing his tax returns would show just how close his fiscal ties to that sicko cult really are. Which makes him more evil.
5. Romney is really rich, therefore evil, and he’s all stuck up about it because he thinks he’s better than everyone else. Which makes him more evil.
6. Romney is ... damn, I’ve run out of reasons. Maybe he won’t release his tax returns because IT’S NONE OF YOUR DAMN BUSINESS.

He’s not telling us how many guns he owns either. And we’re not seeing text message pics of his man junk. Because that’s none of our damn business either. And I hope it stays that way.

It’s not like you or I or almost any journalist could make sense of his tax returns. The guy has bucks, big ones, so I’m assuming his investments are broad and deep. That implies that his tax returns are large and highly complex. They’d be clear as mud to everyone except other seriously rich people and the tax accountants who work for them. So if the IRS isn’t coming after him, I say that’s good enough. And the press should eff off.

The IRS only requires you to keep records going back 7 years. The press would really like to see at least that far back, even further, so they can make a bunch of noise about his time at Bain Capital. I think it’s time some of these baying hounds were given a NoBark collar with a double battery pack.

Posted by Drew458     on 07/18/2012 at 10:16 AM   
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