Mitt Romney, desperate to take attention away from the disastrous tape of his speech to a select group of donors (selected by who could afford to give him $50,000) last May, has released his 2011 tax returns.
Mitt Romney, at Home
Mitt Romney, the animatronic figures who I saw on CNN, and some of the trollier commenters over at HuffingatonofPaste seem to think that’s enough. Old Mittful of Dollars is off the hook, smelling like a rose, and the whole issue is put behind him. Wrong.
First of all, it is only the 2011 tax returns, which he’d said he’d produce anyway, this is just a bit late. Second, he’s had plenty of time to doctor them. We’d really like to see 2009, to know if you took advantage of the Swiss Bank Account amnesty. We’d like to see them for whatever year it was when you ran for Governor of Massachusetts, to see if you actually listed Massachusetts as your primary residence.* We’d like to see them from 1998 to 2003 or so, to see whether or not you were still at Bain. Third, they show that Romney only paid about 14% in taxes. There’s nothing illegal about that but it just might piss off somebody who is working hard but must pay taxes at a higher rate. Fourth, and this was the one that did it for me, he listed his income for the year at 13.7 million dollars.
Which sounds like a huge amount of money, but when you have $250,000,000 it’s only about 6%. Pretty lame investing. And this is the guy the Republicans think we should put in charge, because he’s like a total management genius.
One little year is not going to convince us of anything.
*I’m being a bit disingenuous with that one. I really couldn’t care less if he was a legal resident of Massachusetts. I certainly had no complaints when Hillary Clinton ran for the Senate from New York. But if it’s something that is a thorn in Mitt Romney’s side, I’m going to mention it.
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