He’ll Get Back To You. Or Maybe Not.

Posted on July 31, 2012 at 12:00 pm by JM Ashby

Romney claimed he couldn’t recall whether or not he has ever paid a tax rate lower than 13 percent when asked by ABC news, but rather than say he would not disclose more of his personal finances, he said he would get back to them.

Not surprisingly, it turns out that he won’t be getting back to them.

ABC says Romney officials have not gotten back to them on whether Romney ever paid a lower tax rate than 13.9% despite their repeated queries. Instead, they received a rehash of Romney’s already disclosed taxes and charitable donations from 2010, suggesting that Romney may have overpromised in his interview what his campaign was willing to reveal.

“Mitt Romney has paid his taxes in full compliance with U.S. law, and he has paid 100 percent of what he has owed,” Romney spokeswoman Gail Gitcho told ABC News in a statement.

“It was legal.”

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  • Chachizel

    How patriotic he is. His “legal” payments to the IRS, and his charitable donations to HIS Mormon church. Wow, patriotic and generous. What a guy!! Hahahaha….yeah, I’m kidding. Criminal if you ask me….smh

  • hidflect

    Robotic cadence, weird religion, elitist manner, dodgy finances, unethical business record, draft dodging history, unpopular policies and still 42%+. Does not compute..

    • zirgar

      Yep, he’s definitely a mandroid.

  • muselet

    When asked by ABC’s David Muir whether he may ever have paid a lower rate than 13.9%, Mitt Romney replied:

    “I haven’t calculated that. I’m happy to go back and look, but my view is I’ve paid all the taxes required by law. From time to time I’ve been audited, as happens blah blah blah waffle flannel misdirection.”

    At no time did he say he would tell ABC or anyone else what he found when he happily looked at his records. Anyone who thought he would is very very foolish indeed.

    –alopecia

  • Lazarus Durden

    Wimp.

  • DKEL

    Oh SNAP!! Harry Reid ups the ante!

    “Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has what he says is an informed explanation for why Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns. According a Bain investor, Reid charged, Romney didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years. ”

    Hey. He invites this kind of speculation.

    Reid went even further….

    “His poor father must be so embarrassed about his son,” Reid said, in reference to George Romney’s standard-setting decision to turn over 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in the late 1960s.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/31/harry-reid-romney-taxes_n_1724027.html

    • stacib23

      Aargh, can’t read the article. The flippin’ Huffington Post won’t put Olympic results on a hidden tab and they totally ruined it for me yesterday.

  • GrafZeppelin127

    When Romney says he’s “paid all the taxes required by law,” I believe him. If “all the taxes required by law” is zero, fine. That says more about the tax code than it does about the Grand Nagus.

    But here’s the thing. We’ve been hearing a lot lately about some massive percentage of Americans who “don’t pay taxes.” 47%, 50%, 99%, whatever, depending on who you talk to. I’m quite certain that those who have expressed consternation and resentment at that percentage, who “don’t pay taxes” for the same reason the Nagus doesn’t pay taxes, viz., because the law doesn’t require them to pay taxes, will express the same consternation and resentment at the Nagus as they do at the 47/50/99%.

    • Brutlyhonest

      Always shocking to find (yet again) the system is stacked in the favor of the actual elitists.