who need it or ask seniors to pay more for medicare or throw people off of health care and not ask somebody like me to do anything? not ask us to do a single dime s worth of sacrifice? the obama campaign rubbed salt in the wound by releasing this ad today linking romney s tax returns to his 47% comments. mitt romney attacked 47% of americans who pay no income tax including veterans, elderly, the disabled. my job is not to worry about those people. doesn t the president have to worry about everyone? mitt romney paid 14.1% in taxes last year. he keeps millions in bermuda and the cayman islands. he won t release his tax returns before 2010. maybe romney should come clean on his taxes. what s going to happen? the american people are going to render judgment based on whether
returns. the romneys paid 14.1% and would have paid an even lower rate if they took all of their deductions. the tax returns put the focus back on the issue of tax fairness in america. romney was asked about his tax rate during an interview with 60 minutes. is that fair to the guy who makes $50,000 and paid a higher rate than you did? it is a low rate. one of the reasons why the capital gains tax rate is lower is because capital has already been taxed once at the corporate lev level. as high as 35%. so you think it is fair? yeah, i think it s the right way to encourage economic growth to get people to invest, start businesses, to put people to work. that s hogwash. mitt romney s world, americans can be sold on the idea of rich people being taxed less so they create jobs. haven t we tried that? not even ronald reagan could preach that. that was nearly 30 years ago.
people off of health care and not ask somebody like me to do anything? not ask us to do a single dime s worth of sacrifice? the obama campaign rubbed salt in the wound by releasing this ad today linking romney s tax returns to his 47% comments. mitt romney attacked 47% of americans who pay no income tax including veterans, elderly, the disabled. my job is not to worry about those people. doesn t the president have to worry about everyone? mitt romney paid 14.1% in taxes last year. he keeps millions in bermuda and the cayman islands. he won t release his tax returns before 2010. maybe romney should come clean on his taxes. what s going to happen? the american people are going to render judgment based on whether they think he would be a fair-minded leader. romney is making a pitch to the
can still deduct state and local taxes. you ll find all that out later after you elect me. i ve never heard this kind of presidential on taxes by a candidate before, and i just can t quite imagine a politician thinking that could work. well, i mean, this is an inept campaign, obviously. but i don t know why mr. romney wants to talk about taxes because whenever he talks about taxes it just remind people of his own tax returns that we haven t seen. and lawrence, he paid what, 14%? 14.1% on massive amounts of money that he received. the average ohioan pays 20.1% compared to mitt romney s 14.1%. that fact alone should cause mitt romney to want to stay away from the discussion of taxes. but i still think that there s something in his tax returns
mortgage deduction, whether you can still deduct state and local taxes. you ll find all that out later after you elect me. i ve never heard this kind of presidential on taxes by a candidate before, and i just can t quite imagine a politician thinking that could work. well, i mean, this is an inept campaign, obviously. but i don t know why mr. romney wants to talk about taxes because whenever he talks about taxes it just remind people of his own tax returns that we haven t seen. and lawrence, he paid what, 14%? 14.1% on massive amounts of money that he received. the average ohioan pays 20.1% compared to mitt romney s 14.1%. that fact alone should cause mitt romney to want to stay away from the discussion of taxes. but i still think that there s