Paul Ryan, like Romney, will only release two years of tax returns

[IGotWorms 4,060]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/243295-ryan-follows-romneys-lead-will-release-two-years-of-tax-returns

 

Paul Ryan to follow Romney’s lead, release two years of tax returns

 

Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Sunday defended Mitt Romney against Democratic calls for him to release more tax returns and said he would follow the presumptive GOP nominee’s lead and release only two years of records.

 

In his first interview with Romney since being selected as his running mate, Ryan would not specifically disclose how many years of tax records he had given to the campaign during its vice presidential vetting.

 

“It was a very exhaustive vetting process, said Ryan on CBS’s “60 Minutes.” “It’s a confidential vetting process, so there were several years.”

 

Ryan said he would release the same amount of records Romney has. “I'm going to be releasing two, which is what he's releasing,” he said.

 

Democrats have pressured Romney to release additional records after a report last month detailed his offshore financial holdings and have used the issue to paint the GOP contender as out-of-touch with Americans struggling in the weak economy.

 

What is Mitt Romney hiding? It's pretty ridiculous when he goes so far as to dictate how many tax returns his VP pick can release.

 

Joe Biden has released 13 years' worth of returns.

[Brad GLuckman 519]

Good thread

 

These are the important issues America needs to be discussing this election season.

[drobeski 3,061]

Good for him. They should make a deal with the criminal white house gang.

Release the fast and furious documents, release another couple years of tax returns.

Another couple of years for Obamas college transcripts.

Sounds like a fair and reasonable way to solve this.

[NorthernVike 2,087]

Good for him. They should make a deal with the criminal white house gang.

Release the fast and furious documents, release another couple years of tax returns.

Another couple of years for Obamas college transcripts.

Sounds like a fair and reasonable way to solve this.

Don't you ever get tired of WINNING!?

[phillybear 366]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/243295-ryan-follows-romneys-lead-will-release-two-years-of-tax-returns

 

 

 

What is Mitt Romney hiding? It's pretty ridiculous when he goes so far as to dictate how many tax returns his VP pick can release.

 

Joe Biden has released 13 years' worth of returns.

 

Joe Biden also claimed that his name is John Carter and he lives on Mars.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

The law only requires them to release 2 years worth of returns.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

 

Joe Biden has released 13 years' worth of returns.

 

 

Aspiring to be like Joe "They gonna put ya'll back in chains" Biden isn't a good thing.

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

It would be stupid for him to do anything else. Does anyone think anymore?

[TimmySmith 2,783]

How on earth can I vote for a politician until I know how much he pays in taxes?

[drobeski 3,061]

Don't you ever get tired of WINNING!?

Worms makes it pretty easy.

[porkbutt 893]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/243295-ryan-follows-romneys-lead-will-release-two-years-of-tax-returns

 

 

 

What is Mitt Romney hiding? It's pretty ridiculous when he goes so far as to dictate how many tax returns his VP pick can release.

 

Joe Biden has released 13 years' worth of returns.

well he's not hiding the fact that you're retarded. you're not serious?

[KSB2424 3,148]

It would be stupid for him to do anything else. Does anyone think anymore?

This is the answer. If Mitt Romney released any more years the documents would be drilled down to every detail and turned against him. "Look people, Mitt made 4 Million dollars in 2005!@#! You only made 40k, how can he know what the working man feels? Vote Obama in 2012!@#!" I can see the commercials now.

 

I think it has less to do with 'hiding' something, than it does simply not giving the Democrat spin machine any more ammo.

[crackattack 520]

Rep or Dem, I could give two shiats about their tax returns

[edjr 6,683]

How on earth can I vote for a politician until I know how much he pays in taxes?

 

 

how can you vote for a politician when you know 90% of what he says to get elected will change once he takes office?

[Recliner Pilot 61]

 

how can you vote for a politician when you know 90% of what he says to get elected will change once he takes office?

I doubt he voted for Obama.

[Herbivore 1,146]

This is the answer. If Mitt Romney release any more years the documents would be drilled down to every detail and turned against him. "Look people, Mitt made 4 Million dollars in 2005!@#! You only made 40k, how can he know what the working man feels? Vote Obama in 2012!@#!" I can see the commercials now.

 

I think it has less to do with 'hiding' something, than it does simply not giving the Democrat spin machine any more ammo.

 

Do you really believe that? They are already pounding on him about not releasing. It seems to me that there are definitely things in there that Mitt really really doesn't want people to know because he knows it will look bad. Hard to say people who make a lot of money are paying too much in taxes, when you are paying something like 11%.

[MDC 7,590]

I'm guessing Mitt won't release his tax returns because they include much higher income with a lower tax rate, more offshore shelters, and possibly some huge donations to his cult. The two years he released were scrubbed - the earlier years will be more of the same. He can't let Ryan release more than two years because then voters will ask why the VP candidate is more transparent than his running mate.

 

hth

[Frank M 181]

This is the answer. If Mitt Romney release any more years the documents would be drilled down to every detail and turned against him. "Look people, Mitt made 4 Million dollars in 2005!@#! You only made 40k, how can he know what the working man feels? Vote Obama in 2012!@#!" I can see the commercials now.

 

I think it has less to do with 'hiding' something, than it does simply not giving the Democrat spin machine any more ammo.

 

Perception is reality for most people, KSB. You know that. Do you remember when George HW Bush went into a grocery store and was amazed at the scanner at the checkout, a technology that had been there for several years at that point? Instantly, he was shown to be out of touch with every person who shops for their own food, which is mostly everybody who isn't really rich. Whether that was fair or unfair didn't make a difference, the image was planted in people's heads. Did it have anything to do with him not being re-elected? Maybe not, but the image was effective for the Democrats. On the other side, you have Bill Clinton, who felt everybody's pain, and George W, who people felt was a guy they could "sit down and have a few beers with", when in reality, they would as soon step on you as look at you in real life. Obama does this as well, even though you know he gives two shiots about anything except his legacy and staying in office for another term.

 

Painting someone as out of touch with the common man is the easiest way to sway the electorate. Unfortunately, most don't realize that they're all out of touch, they all travel in this stratosphere that 99.9% of us will never experience.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

Perception is reality for most people, KSB. You know that. Do you remember when George HW Bush went into a grocery store and was amazed at the scanner at the checkout, a technology that had been there for several years at that point? Instantly, he was shown to be out of touch with every person who shops for their own food, which is mostly everybody who isn't really rich.

 

 

Seems like you are the one out of touch............with reality.

 

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/bushscan.asp

[Frank M 181]

Seems like you are the one out of touch............with reality.

 

http://www.snopes.co...an/bushscan.asp

 

Which proves my point even more strongly than before. Perception doesn't need to be based in reality to be effective in politics.

 

Thank!

 

[Recliner Pilot 61]

Which proves my point even more strongly than before. Perception doesn't need to be based in reality to be effective in politics.

 

Thank!

 

You are welcome.

 

I always enjoy the chance to point out how demwit sheeple like yourself are easily fooled.

[MDC 7,590]

Do you remember when George HW Bush went into a grocery store and was amazed at the scanner at the checkout, a technology that had been there for several years at that point?

 

Reminds me of how Romney was astounded by touch screen technology at Wawa. "I could order my sandwich ... without even talking to the peasants who work at the sandwich counter!"

[Recliner Pilot 61]

Reminds me of how Romney was astounded by touch screen technology at Wawa. "I could order my sandwich ... without even talking to the peasants who work at the sandwich counter!"

Another demwit sheeple fooled.

[heavy-set 39]

i want both mitt and ryan to release their birth certificates too

 

they are both commies

[Recliner Pilot 61]

i want both mitt and ryan to release their birth certificates too

 

Why? Did they get into college as foreign exchange students?

[MDC 7,590]

Why? Did they get into college as foreign exchange students?

 

Neither one of them ever went to college and they're both Mexican.

 

hth

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

Do you really believe that? They are already pounding on him about not releasing. It seems to me that there are definitely things in there that Mitt really really doesn't want people to know because he knows it will look bad. Hard to say people who make a lot of money are paying too much in taxes, when you are paying something like 11%.

 

That is two different subjects. This thread is about Ryan releasing only 2 year's worth of tax returns. If Ryan does anything other than what Romney does, then it opens the ticket to scrutiny. If Romney wants to release more than 2 years, do you want to bet that Ryan does the same thing at the same time?

 

This is such a non-story.

 

Romney's returns are another matter altogether.

[The Moz 71]

Good for him. They should make a deal with the criminal white house gang.

Release the fast and furious documents, release another couple years of tax returns.

Another couple of years for Obamas college transcripts and his application to Columbia.

Sounds like a fair and reasonable way to solve this.

 

 

you still won the thread of course just thought I might add this

[Recliner Pilot 61]

 

 

Romney's returns are another matter altogether.

Why?

[Patriotsfatboy1 1,432]

Why?

 

There are some potential legal concerns about how he amassed a $100M IRA, considering the max you can put in a year is less than $50k (even with special provisions).

 

Mitt has done some shady deals in business and his taxes. If you think that he has not pushed the envelope of tax law, then you are naive.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

There are some potential legal concerns about how he amassed a $100M IRA, considering the max you can put in a year is less than $50k (even with special provisions).

 

Mitt has done some shady deals in business and his taxes. If you think that he has not pushed the envelope of tax law, then you are naive.

I'm sure the IRS would have had something to say about all that by now.

 

You clowns need new talking points.

[MDC 7,590]

I'm sure the IRS would have had something to say about all that by now.

 

You clowns need new talking points.

 

How's this one:

 

Mitt Romney will lose in November and your wife and kids are never coming home.

 

Happy now, jerkwad?

[DankNuggs 305]

I'm sure the IRS would have had something to say about all that by now.

 

You clowns need new talking points.

Doesn't mean its illegal, but if you followed the 'carried interest' discussions, this would be an extreme use coupled with the avoided taxes getting it into his IRA

 

First you basically take fee commissions which should probably be taxed as ordinary income as carried interest to pay the 15% cap gains instead of the 35% ord income rate

 

Secondly you contribute that carried interest into your IRA in some complicated fashion at some par/nominal type of value for tax purposes, but it allows you to stuff an obscene amount of money into a tax free/(maybe deferred tax) vehicle.

 

 

Super complicated (beyond my pay grade), and obv the narratives that would come from this would be vicious.

[BudBro 183]

nobody cares. we get to focus on getting harry reid indicted for insider trading and making markets through legislation. time for the old turd to rot.

[Mike Honcho 5,332]

The law only requires them to release 2 years worth of returns.

 

To which law are you referring, I was under the assumption that the releasing of tax returns was more of a tradition?

[Recliner Pilot 61]

To which law are you referring, I was under the assumption that the releasing of tax returns was more of a tradition?

I was joking, Dumbfukk.

 

The way you tardos obsess over it you would think Romney is breaking the law by not releasing 10 years of returns.

[drobeski 3,061]

To which law are you referring, I was under the assumption that the releasing of tax returns was more of a tradition?

Not selling guns to mexican drug lords was tradition too. Lets see the documents

[Mike Honcho 5,332]

The law only requires them to release 2 years worth of returns.

 

 

I was joking, Dumbfukk.

 

The way you tardos obsess over it you would think Romney is breaking the law by not releasing 10 years of returns.

 

We'll just chalk that up to something else you fail at...comedy.

[Recliner Pilot 61]

We'll just chalk that up to something else you fail at...comedy.

Don't get butthurt cuz you are the only one dumb enough to take the post seriously, Dumbfukk.

[hoytdwow 202]

Meh, so Ryan's hiding something, too. Not surprising.