who let the dogs out, who, who? only two streets mitt romney has been on are wall street and easy street. for him to continue to pretend he s in touch with middle class americans is corporate psycho talk. i m so in love with you . our panel on show time at the apollo and chaos in carolina. would you like to take time to respond to that? no, but i will. it s an epic day for the colbert campaign in south carolina. the only difference of mitt romney and a statue of of mitt romney is that the statue never changes its position. an the ed show exclusive. let me tell you something, america is a great nation. yesterday, mitt romney freaked out at a 99 percenter, tonight, that machinery sponlds only the ed show.
percenter. this is no mainstream media conspiracy. this is the gop maneuvering itself right on to obama terr n terrain. when my friend charles gets worried like that, it s reassuring to me. because i think he really identified the republicans problem right now. that mitt romney has just had a terrible problem talking about wealth. talking about his taxes and when he s going to release them. that now famous statement they didn t make much from speeches and it turned out to be $370,000 a year or something on that order. and so for the last week, he has been playing right into the core democratic argument about inequality. and it was interesting. paul krugman had an article in the new york times pointing out, okay, let s forget about mitt romney. let s just talk about what s wrong with the tax system that allows somebody like him to pay only 15%.
any conditions. all right. gretch? brian? republican frontrunner mitt romney a 15 percenter? what s the effective rate i ve been paying? closer to the 15% than i think is my last 10 years, i ve my income comes overwhelmingly from investments. now, the president and his republican rivals on the attack. i didn t realize until today that governor romney paid about 15% so we re now calling my 15% flat tax the mitt romney flat tax. and our principle is why shouldn t you be allowed to pay the same percentage he does? well, joining us now is stuart varney to try to break this all down. some people are saying it s a good thing that mitt romney got this out in the forefront yesterday. 15%. some are saying maybe it s a bit of a gaffe. if people don t understand how this fits together is going to say why isn t he paying a higher tax? he s rich.
an out of touch 1 percenter. they asked about this picture with money spilling out of their pockets. take a look at what romney said in response. we were successful in raising the first fund. about $37 million. i know there is going to be every effort to put free enterprise on trial. to attack free enterprise and those who believe profit is good. profit is good. does that remind you of a film at a fame our character? greed is good? for does remind me of that. no one is going to attack free enterprise. this president has been fighting the past jobs bill. he wants to create more free enterprise and more jobs for people. mitt romney has two problems on this. he talks about his private business and as something that should qualify him to be president. he wasn t making cars.
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