Speculation about Romney's tax returns...

[targetpractice]

I'm sure there are millions of reasons (pun intended) why Romney will resist releasing more tax returns from past years, but I'll speculate that one major reason is that his rate of success INCREASED exponentially after the mortgage meltdown and recession began in 2008.

I'll bet he became super successful as the rest of us suffered.

I'm sure this has been discussed here before... If so, sorry I missed it.

[roguevalley]

1. I agree. His returns are a swilling cesspool of avarice.

[unblock]

2. one of his many problems is that he can't relay to the average voter the merit of his "earning"

everyone understands (or at least thinks they understand) bill gates' wealth.
people like gates or bloomberg or even the meg whitman, people at least can tie them to a product, understand that they had some role in making that happen. so while their wealth may be disproportionate to their contribution, at least they clearly contributed SOMEthing. people use microswift products, people use ebay, and people (at least in finance) use bloomberg's data and analysis services.

but what romney did escapes most people. buying and selling companies, playing games with the financing and the ownership structure, doing all sorts of different things to different companies depending on the situation, it's very hard to tell if overall what he did was good, bad, or indifferent. what is clear is that he extracted vast sums of loot in the process. what isn't clear is exactly whose lives he made better in the process.


if only for this reason, ANY continued talk about his wealth is damaging.