Wouldn´t that help mitt?
Interesting, Maddow says she's got some tape that she thinks will take the tax return thing in a completely new direction. It's something from some archives that she says she doesn't think people have seen for years. Wonder what it is. It'll be her lead story tomorrow.
Interesting, Maddow says she's got some tape that she thinks will take the tax return thing in a completely new direction. It's something from some archives that she says she doesn't think people have seen for years. Wonder what it is. It'll be her lead story tomorrow.
it probably won't be anything too major, but if she did find something, maybe it's the same thing the Obama campaign has been musing they have ready to go for when the campaign heats up in the fall. They said something like 'If the Republicans are worrying now, they're really going to be scared when they see what we have waiting for Romney when the campaign heats up.'
Interesting, Maddow says she's got some tape that she thinks will take the tax return thing in a completely new direction. It's something from some archives that she says she doesn't think people have seen for years. Wonder what it is. It'll be her lead story tomorrow.
His whole residency thing is a mess. Basically he likes to claim residency in places like Utah that give him big tax breaks. But then he does things like run for governor in MA so he retroactively claims to be a resident there. And when doing so he claims to have lived in his son's basement and claims to have worked for Bain companies in MA during periods after he said he 'retired' from Bain (despite SEC forms saying he is CEO of bain & collects $100K)....
You fucking kidding me?
No wonder the guy won't release his tax returns.
If it was something that people other than liberals would care about, it probably wouldn't release at 9 PM on a Friday.
I still don´t think he has proof. But I do think that source might be someone who knows something pretty credible. I´m guessing they know its single digits and this game is just to get it out. I think the dems want the returns out before the convention.
Did he really release his returns to the McCain camp?
Maybe the source is John McCain, lol.
You joke but I think they have to have something from that. I really don´t think they´d go this deep on the tax records if they didn´t have something. They´d be laughed at so badly if they kept saying things like this and then found out he paid 20% or something.
Interesting, Maddow says she's got some tape that she thinks will take the tax return thing in a completely new direction. It's something from some archives that she says she doesn't think people have seen for years. Wonder what it is. It'll be her lead story tomorrow.
It's probably just video of Romney demanding Kennedy's returns or something. No one will care.
Sure . . . but such a leak may have happened way back in 2008 long before Obama beat McCain. Back then just after the bitter primary battle and when the vetting was being done for VP, some McCain insiders could have let it slip in discussions with other people that there is no way they were going to pick that jerk Romney and partly because he'd been paying single-digit tax rates.I think McCain loathes Romney, but he likely hates Obama even more so he wouldn't do anything to help him.
It puts Romney in the position of denying something without being able to prove it, something he's already under pressure to release.
But he is able to prove it! And that is the real rub. He could prove the allegations false but he refuses to do so. And that allows everyone to wildly speculate about why.
Thinking about Romney's situation, there certainly may have been some years where he paid zero tax. Of course, it could have been done completely legally and not simply through sleazy tax dodges. He could have just had that year where stocks tanked, sold off some terrible loser stocks and used those losses to offset gains elsewhere and had lots of charitable donations such that he had no real income.
Just like corporations that pay no tax all the time because many years they have losses. Well, there have been TERRIBLE years for investing where he comes out a loser. People are corporations too! ;-)
But paying no taxes when you are multi-millionaire doesn't look good. I don't mind it at all as long as the losses are real. I'm far more disturbed by the fact that in good years when he makes millions of dollars, he only pays 13.9%. That is far more offensive than paying nothing when he loses money.
Moreover, we have no clue whether Mr. Romney paid any gift tax on transfers, now valued at $100 million, to a trust he set up in 1995 for the benefit of his five sons. Until this year, the federal gift tax had a lifetime exemption of $1 million, and it taxed gifts in excess of that amount at rates between 29 and 44 percent. A gift of $100 million to ones children could, therefore, require paying a tax of as much as $29 million to $44 million.
But every good tax professional knows that gift tax returns are rarely audited, except after the transferors death. And normally the I.R.S. cannot challenge such a return after three years from its filing. But if the values of the gifts were not properly appraised and disclosed on Mr. Romneys gift tax returns, a challenge may still be possible. If he did not file any gift tax return, he would still be liable for the tax, plus interest and penalties.
Based on his aggressive tax planning, revealed in the 2010 returns he has released and his approval of a notably dicey tax avoidance strategy in 1994 when he headed the audit committee of the board of Marriott International, my bet is that if Mr. Romney filed a gift tax return for these transfers at all he put a low or even zero value on the gifts, certainly a small fraction of the price at which he would have sold the transferred assets to an unrelated party. Otherwise, he should be happy to release his gift tax returns. According to a partner at Mr. Romneys trustees law firm, valuing carried interests, such as Mr. Romneys interests in the private equity company Bain Capital, at zero for gift tax purposes was common advice given to clients like Mr. Romney in the 1990s and early 2000s.
If detected, undervaluing large gifts to ones children could provoke large penalties from the I.R.S. These are the kinds of tax penalties that even multinational corporations try to avoid because they fear how the public would react to the adverse publicity that would inevitably follow.
Interesting, Maddow says she's got some tape that she thinks will take the tax return thing in a completely new direction. It's something from some archives that she says she doesn't think people have seen for years. Wonder what it is. It'll be her lead story tomorrow.
A quick google search gave me 6 "Penn State" bars.
http://www.google.com/#q=Penn+State...pw.r_qf.&fp=efadbc5eaac9b940&biw=1600&bih=799
That's a lot.
The gift tax stuff is an interesting angle. And it may not be legal what he did.
Speculation, baby!
Based on what I saw earlier, I think Reid should triple down. I really think next he should just say "Look, he's already been caught lying about his tax returns when he was running for governor. He said he was listed as a Massachusetts resident, and then we found out he wasn't, and we found out he knew it, because he was retroactively trying to change it. He's a proven liar on this specific subject, so the onus is on him to prove to the American people what he says is true."
You're just jealous because he is giving his sons some bootstrap money.
But he is able to prove it! And that is the real rub. He could prove the allegations false but he refuses to do so. And that allows everyone to wildly speculate about why.
Thinking about Romney's situation, there certainly may have been some years where he paid zero tax. Of course, it could have been done completely legally and not simply through sleazy tax dodges. He could have just had that year where stocks tanked, sold off some terrible loser stocks and used those losses to offset gains elsewhere and had lots of charitable donations such that he had no real income.
Just like corporations that pay no tax all the time because many years they have losses. Well, there have been TERRIBLE years for investing where he comes out a loser. People are corporations too! ;-)
But paying no taxes when you are multi-millionaire doesn't look good. I don't mind it at all as long as the losses are real. I'm far more disturbed by the fact that in good years when he makes millions of dollars, he only pays 13.9%. That is far more offensive than paying nothing when he loses money.
Edit: Of course I'm talking about one maybe two years of no taxes. There is no way he paid no taxes for ten years. That has to be wild exaggeration.
There has to be SOMETHING to Reid's claims. He's just someone who I never expected to get into the campaign like this, especially with things like releasing statements and doing interviews about it.
But he is able to prove it! And that is the real rub. He could prove the allegations false but he refuses to do so. And that allows everyone to wildly speculate about why.
There has to be SOMETHING to Reid's claims. He's just someone who I never expected to get into the campaign like this, especially with things like releasing statements and doing interviews about it.
It's Reid. He'll find a way to fuck up anything.
I did speak to one source who is very close to Senator Reid who claims to also know who the Bain investor is that Reid spoke with, and insists that it is a credible person and this person if we knew the name we would understand they would have the authority and the ability to know about Romney's tax returns.
Dana Bash is also saying the Reid's source is credible.
The original article said Christ, but there was an error from the transcription from Fox they used.
It's just a feature of the CMS's these sites use so as to maintain the same permanent link. Can cause weird issues, yes.
It puts Romney in the position of denying something without being able to prove it, something he's already under pressure to release.
But he is able to prove it! And that is the real rub. He could prove the allegations false but he refuses to do so. And that allows everyone to wildly speculate about why.
Dana Bash is also saying the Reid's source is credible.
Holy crap! If Reid allegation's about Romney's taxes are true...
reason why she bumped it to next day is so she can release the tape and change conversation from 100k job numbers. It better be big.I don't want us to get into these things. Don't hype things, show the video and if it is worth it it will blow up anyway.
This whole, we have a video that will blow your mind is a very conservative right-wing thing to do.
One should realize that for all of Reid's issues, he is a good politician. The way he orchestrated his victory in 2010 was awesome. When he wants to destroy his opponent, he goes for the jugular. He is ruthless when it comes to this, their team did an amazing GOTV operation in the Latino community even as they knew it would assure that Reid's son would lose the Governorship.
One should realize that for all of Reid's issues, he is a good politician. The way he orchestrated his victory in 2010 was awesome.
What does that have to do with accusing Romney of something with no evidence lol
Something tells me Romney isn't dumb enough to run for president with 10 years of not paying taxes. Moreover, McCain's camp would know. Just as John Edwards' camp was ready and willing to leak news of his affair if he got close to the nomination, I expect McCain's folks would do the same to protect the party.
Couldn't disagree more. He's a terrible politician who only managed to win reelection because his opponent was literally a crazy person.
Republican Women, Update
Published Aug 01 2012, 10:47 AM by David S. Bernstein
In all, I count 308 districts of 435 total (71%) that have held their primaries, with a total of 29 women nominated by the GOP -- 10 returning incumbents and 19 challengers.
That sounds bad, but the reality is even worse.
Using the brand-spankin'-new Roll Call ratings chart, I found 62 districts in the country where a new Republican appears to have a feasible chance of making it to Washington. That includes any open or Democrat-held seat that isn't considered "safe Democratic." (That excludes Republicans beating incumbent Republicans in primaries, but it doesn't appear that any GOP women will accomplish that this year.)
Of those 62 districts, 5 women have won the GOP nominations. Another 6 have GOP women candidates awaiting their primaries (including Zoller heading to a runoff, mentioned above). The other 51 have already nominated men, or have no women running in the primary.
http://blog.thephoenix.com/BLOGS/talkingpolitics/archive/2012/08/01/republican-women-update.aspx
If you think Breitbart's big surprise was the whitey footage, you're deluded. No one's prepared for what's coming down the pike.OMG what if Romney has her killed like Breitbart and the Whitey tape?!?!?!
Pretty sure at this point there is something going on in Mitt's taxes. More than anything, it's his unrelenting position on not releasing anything that has people wondering, not Reid's source or his magical IRA.There is no scandal with mitts taxes. The scandal is the entire structure of the tax system itself.
That would be the most damaging thing of all, not an anomaly, but a changing of the entire conversation of taxation. a boy can dream right?
What does that have to do with accusing Romney of something with no evidence lol
Something tells me Romney isn't dumb enough to run for president with 10 years of not paying taxes. Moreover, McCain's camp would know. Just as John Edwards' camp was ready and willing to leak news of his affair if he got close to the nomination, I expect McCain's folks would do the same to protect the party.
There is no scandal with mitts taxes. The scandal is the entire structure of the tax system itself.
That would be the most damaging thing of all, not an anomaly, but a changing of the entire conversation of taxation. a boy can dream right?
I agree that Romney is smart enough not to do #3. 2010 is already out and if the other years are just like it, why would it change anything. He'd release them.Alternately...
It's one of three things.
1) The claims that Romney paid no taxes some years are baseless, but there are other things in them Romney does not want to release, and so won't release them.
2) The claims are correct, in which case Romney really doesn't want to release them.
3) There's nothing in the returns any more or less damaging than in the 2010 return Romney has already released, and this whole thing is just a self-inflicted wound.
I don't think even Romney would do #3; there has to be a reason he's refusing to go back further than 2010. So it's #1 or #2, or some combination of them.
I agree that Romney is smart enough not to do #3. 2010 is already out and if the other years are just like it, why would it change anything. He'd release them.
But it can't be #2. There is just no way you can go 10 years w/o paying taxes. I don't think it is possible. And if it was possible, you'd have to be pulling a lot of sleazy stuff to do that. And it is clear the he wanted to run for office and did run for office in 2008. You'd have to be the dumbest fucking guy on the planet to think you could be the multi-millionaire that made tons of money and yet paid no taxes for 10 years AND still get elected.
So it has to be #1. I think the returns are basically legal but are filled with all sorts of crazy contradictory thing and borderline sleazy things. He deserves to be slammed if it doesn't release his tax forms because he's dodged taxes like crazy but he doesn't have the fucking balls to come clean and admit it.
I hope she isn't getting delusions of Bret Bri...whatever the hell his name way, the coke monkey guy.Interesting, Maddow says she's got some tape that she thinks will take the tax return thing in a completely new direction. It's something from some archives that she says she doesn't think people have seen for years. Wonder what it is. It'll be her lead story tomorrow.