Mitt Romney’s ‘exotic’ tax problem

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Posted by Chris Cillizza and Aaron Blake at 07:25 AM ET, 07/23/2012



For years, President’s Obama’s political opponents have used his background — Kenyan father, Kansan mother, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii — to cast him as somehow exotic, someone whose life makes it hard for him to understand the average American.

And yet, it’s Mitt Romney, Obama’s general election opponent, who is now dealing with an “exotic” issue that is centered on his considerable wealth and being played out in the ongoing fight over whether he will release more than two years worth of tax returns.

“He is an extremely wealthy man,” Steve Schmidt, who managed Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) 2008 presidential campaign and was involved in the vetting of Romney for vice president, said during an appearance Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”. “His tax returns do not look anything like the average American’s.”

Schmidt hit the nail on the head in assessing the political problem of Romney’s tax returns — and also lays out the most likely explanation for why the former Massachusetts governor and his campaign have been so stingy about releasing more.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/mitt-romneys-exotic-problem/2012/07/23/gJQAp2R13W_blog.html

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1. father born in cult compound in Mexico

if we want to go the "exotic" route

[polichick]

3. Funny how nobody touches this scenario.

[flamingdem]

5. You mean about the Mexican Mormon commune where men have multiple wives?

What's unusual about that?

[polichick]

7. Yes, it's a bit "exotic." ;)

[snooper2]

4. Was he circumcised?

Google autofills this for you


do mormons believe in circumcision

[Cary]

2. The real problem is not Romney's exotic tax returns any more than there is a real problem...

with President Obama's background.

The problem is that "conservatives" are fascists and they have given us wars and the greatest transfer of wealth in history from the middle class to the top 1% over the past 30 years. The problem is that we need to reverse the perverse policies of "conservatives" and return to policies that actually contribute to the general welfare.

Romney has sided with "conservatives". President Obama, whom you've never given enough credit, has worked to reverse the 30 years of "supply-side economic" b.s.

The real choice is whether to continue reversing those "conservative" policies or to go back to the policies that gave us wars and unconscionable levels of concentration of wealth.

There is no middle ground.

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6. rec