Pressure Mounting on the Romneys to Release More Tax Records

[Katzndogz]

Except President Obama hasn't done that.

Obama’s college records are not “sealed” by a court order, as this graphic would have you believe. It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former student’s records to reporters or members of the public without that person’s specific, written permission. Obama hasn’t released them, but neither have other presidential candidates released their college records. George W. Bush’s grades at Yale eventually became public, but only because somebody leaked them to the New Yorker magazine. Bush himself refused to release them, according to a 1999 profile in the Washington Post.​

Obama’s ‘Sealed’ Records

What was obama's GPA in college? his admission papers ?
You're using the same group which obama was a board member of?

His GPA was high enough for him to have graduated Magna cum Laude and to become editor of the Law Review. They don't usually give that to "C" students.

Presidents do not usually release their college transcripts. Bush's release was a fluke...because he didn't release them. Kerry's were in his military records which he did allow to be released.

Romney is running on his business record isn't he? If that is the case, why isn't it pertinent to see how his business acumen stacks up?

I think it is pretty damn funny that a birther is defending Romney not releasing his tax returns.

You know what they really don't give to editors of Law Review? The office of editor to someone that never wrote a published paper. obama was never published. Not before he was editor, not during the time he was editor. Not ever. So how did he get to be editor of Harvard Law Review?

 

[SniperFire]

Except President Obama hasn't done that.

Obama’s college records are not “sealed” by a court order, as this graphic would have you believe. It would be illegal under federal law (the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974) for Occidental, Columbia or Harvard Law School to give any former student’s records to reporters or members of the public without that person’s specific, written permission. Obama hasn’t released them, but neither have other presidential candidates released their college records. George W. Bush’s grades at Yale eventually became public, but only because somebody leaked them to the New Yorker magazine. Bush himself refused to release them, according to a 1999 profile in the Washington Post.​

Obama’s ‘Sealed’ Records

What was obama's GPA in college? his admission papers ?
You're using the same group which obama was a board member of?

His GPA was high enough for him to have graduated Magna cum Laude and to become editor of the Law Review. They don't usually give that to "C" students.

Presidents do not usually release their college transcripts. Bush's release was a fluke...because he didn't release them. Kerry's were in his military records which he did allow to be released.

Romney is running on his business record isn't he? If that is the case, why isn't it pertinent to see how his business acumen stacks up?

I think it is pretty damn funny that a birther is defending Romney not releasing his tax returns.

Sure, we will take his word for it. Just like we will take Romney's word for it.

 

[Katzndogz]

The tax return train has left the station. Aside from a few democrats that obama can still lead around, no one cares. What they care about is 716 billion dollars taken from medicare. What they care about is that obama won't turn over the Fast and Furious documents. Who was it that leaked our national security secrets? If obama thinks that demanding tax returns will make people forget that he is intentionally skyrocketing the cost of energy, fuel and food, his is mistaken.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Jesus - you folks see the balls of the Obama camp to tell Romney "we will quit accusing you if you release 5 more years"?????
What kind of f*cked up campaign is Obama running this time around??
His first campaign was ran brilliantly - one of the best in modern times - this time around it is one screw up after another.

 

[Ravi]

Romney was asked to release 5 years and he even wussed out over that, lmao!

 

[Katzndogz]

Jesus - you folks see the balls of the Obama camp to tell Romney "we will quit accusing you if you release 5 more years"?????
What kind of f*cked up campaign is Obama running this time around??
His first campaign was ran brilliantly - one of the best in modern times - this time around it is one screw up after another.

Everyone knows what BS that is. Of course democrats will keep accusing Romney, not only for the tax returns, but what's in them and the democrats will respond "We have no control over what other people do."

 

[thanatos144]

Do you know how stupid Progressives are???? They dont understand that if Romney had broken the law in any way Obama would have had his ass in jail LOL So like the useful idiots they are they just squawk what their masters tell them to.

 

[candycorn]

Do you know how stupid Progressives are???? They dont understand that if Romney had broken the law in any way Obama would have had his ass in jail LOL So like the useful idiots they are they just squawk what their masters tell them to.

Yes and there is a whole separate thread about how the non-progressives (if thats a word) called Romney a "shitty choice" during the primaries and how they are now supporting the "shitty choice". There are useful idiots on both sides in droves.

As for the subject at hand; illegal is one thing...non-presidential is another.

 

[candycorn]

Are you silly people still talking about old tax records?

America has moved on and we are looking to find a couple of leaders who are great with numbers who can help save us from a looming fiscal crisis.
Know of anybody?

From what I hear the several members of the GOP thinks that their nominee is a "shitty choice", a "turd", a "phony", and a "liberal". Any idea who they are talking about?

 

[thanatos144]

Do you know how stupid Progressives are???? They dont understand that if Romney had broken the law in any way Obama would have had his ass in jail LOL So like the useful idiots they are they just squawk what their masters tell them to.

Yes and there is a whole separate thread about how the non-progressives (if thats a word) called Romney a "shitty choice" during the primaries and how they are now supporting the "shitty choice". There are useful idiots on both sides in droves.

As for the subject at hand; illegal is one thing...non-presidential is another.

OMG you mean conservatives don't agree with each other all the time?????? Say it isn't so!!!!!!!!




You are completely ignorant.

 

[candycorn]

This from Yahoo!

Mitt Romney's wife is pushing back on public pressure for her husband to release additional years of personal tax filings.

In an interview set to air Thursday on NBC's "Rock Center," Ann Romney reiterated that her husband won't release more financial records, insisting it would just provide more fodder for Democratic attacks.

"There's nothing we're hiding," Ann Romney told NBC's Natalie Morales.

Asked why her husband isn't more "transparent," Romney seemed to get a bit irritated, leaning forward in her chair to answer questions.

"Have you seen how we are attacked? Have you seen what's happened?" she said. "We have been very transparent to what's legally required of us. But the more we release, the more we get attacked, the more we get questioned, the more we get pushed. And so we have done what's legally required, and there's going to be no more tax releases given."

The idea that the candidates get to decide what you're allowed to know basically died about 20 years ago (if not sooner).

The Romneys will learn.

More at Ann Romney on tax returns:

How many tax returns did the John Kerry's release in 2003?

Who? When?

 

[Katzndogz]

Democrats already know what's in Romney's tax returns. After all, they have the returns and have always had the returns. What they want is a public admission that Romney donated to pro family charitable groups.

 

[candycorn]

As ought to be evident to all, FACTS appear to be much less important to electoral outcomes than the PERCEPTION of the facts.

Now I do not doubt that Romney did nothing wrong when it comes to having paid his taxes.

So why, given these charges, is Romeny refusing to show the American people how much he paid over the last decade?

I think we all understand why he refuses.

Because what we would discover is that Romeny paid a very small percentage of his income. Like a percentage much much lower than the average working person in the USA.

And THAT would be percieved as being unfair, even if Romeny's tax returns were perfectly legal.

After all, Romney's complaint is that the very welathy pay way too high a percentage in taxes.

But it is very likely that if we saw what HE PAID, we would discover that he paid a very low percentage of his income.

In other words the basic thrust of his complaint about taxes would prove to be (at least in HIS case) total bullshit.

THAT is why Romney hesitates to END this story.

Because it would end when Romeny was proven to be just another whining rich boy who enjoys enormous tax breaks that most people cannot enjoy.

That is where I am. I have no doubt that Romney didn't do anything illegal.

From: Ann Romney on tax returns: Ann Romney on tax returns:

If the Romney's vast assets are in a "blind trust" and Mrs Romney doesn't know what or where it is invested, how could she say they're not hiding anything? If she doesn't know where the money is, how do we know what it is funding?

It might be in foreign banks, loaning money to fund foreign business - competing with our own. Or, it might be in rare paintings, or automobiles or any number of instruments outside our borders funding any manner of things not in our nations best interest.

And why were these assets placed in a blind trust for over a decade? One would presume someone who tauts their business acuity would be better able to invest their assets than those who operate said blind trust.

I'm sure none of the investments were illegal, but extralegal or furtive is a possibility. Otherwise why hide the great wealth he is so proud to have built?

We all know that blind trusts are iron clad...right? Well, not according to the Governor:

“The blind trust is an age-old ruse, if you will,” Romney said. “Which is to say you can always tell a blind trust what it can and cannot do. You give a blind trust rules.”


Read more on Newsmax.com: Romney in 1994: Blind Trusts a 'Ruse'
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Romney in 1994: Blind Trusts a 'Ruse'

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Romney was asked to release 5 years and he even wussed out over that, lmao!

Ravi...I would expect differently from you.
He wasn't asked.
How would you feel if someone made unsubstantiated claims against you, who by the way had a lot to gain from your demise - something very serious and where they would only say "I heard it from someone" this claim could not only get you fired, but keep you from getting any job.
You want to live in a society where YOU have to prove any and all accusations against you when there is no proof whatsoever given by the accuser ..until then you are automatically assumed guilty if you don't prove it?????? A society where your foes can take you down by simply making a claim against you....they refuse to say where they heard it and no one faults them for it - but YOU are blamed openly and assumed "it must be true" if you don't comply and prove it???
Really Ravi??

 

[Full-Auto]

Are you silly people still talking about old tax records?

America has moved on and we are looking to find a couple of leaders who are great with numbers who can help save us from a looming fiscal crisis.
Know of anybody?

From what I hear the several members of the GOP thinks that their nominee is a "shitty choice", a "turd", a "phony", and a "liberal". Any idea who they are talking about?

The same thing occurred between Hilary and Obama.

The difference there is the DNC low life eliminated two states from having a full voice in the selection.....

Your memory of events need a lot of work.

 

[Plasmaball]

pressure mounting on obama to answer questions from the wh press corps, its been six months. Oh wait.......

deflection a ho!!!!!!!!

 

[Full-Auto]

pressure mounting on obama to answer questions from the wh press corps, its been six months. Oh wait.......

deflection a ho!!!!!!!!

Why dont you post that pressure...

The only pressure that remains visible is the pressure of democrats to deflect from the governance record.

That and the distortion of the heads ready to explode...........

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Pressure by who? Obama, the guy who looks to Hanuman the monkey God for blessings? That guy?

 

[Plasmaball]

question...If mittens is paying 13% on his taxes, why the push to drop the tax rates to 25%? If mittens who is rich is already scamming the system to pay less anyways, why the move?

The 25% doesnt matter to people like him.

 

[Plasmaball]

pressure mounting on obama to answer questions from the wh press corps, its been six months. Oh wait.......

deflection a ho!!!!!!!!

Why dont you post that pressure...

The only pressure that remains visible is the pressure of democrats to deflect from the governance record.

That and the distortion of the heads ready to explode...........

I want mittens to win sally...But that doesnt mean im not going to point out a deflection...You know like your post here.