experience as i an corporate buyout specialist. note the term corporate buyout specialist. he has put his personal financial assets in a black box and hid the key, attempting to play by a different set of rules than any candidate in recent history. let s hear what eric fern strom said this morning in response to that. the governor has provided all of the disclosure that s required by law. and that is significant. we ve already put out hundreds of pages of tax return information that we were not required to disclose. we put out 2010 tax return information. we made an estimate for 2011 and we think that s sufficient. is that sufficient, josh? i think it probably is for now. look, the issue really peaked very early in the grand scale of the election cycle it peaked very early. there s a moment when we re all going to be focused on who pays what. in august, september, are people going to be saying is i know
voluntarily put forward hundreds of pages of tax return information for you and your colleagues and the press and members of the public to go through. look, we know that there s going to be an extraordinary effort by the obama campaign to distract from the bad economy. i got to tell you, they got more sideshows than p.t. barnum s troubling circus but it s not going to work because people care about the state of the economy. they care about gas prices. they care about their homes and staying in their homes, and that s what this election s going to come down to, chuck. definitively new york plans on releasing any more tax returns? we ve already put out hundreds of pages of tax return information. right. for one year. that we re required to disclose. we put out 2010 tax return information. we made an estimate for 211 and we think that s sufficient. will you put out the full 2011? we did put out the full 2011, including related tax returns.
toast, bacon, ham, sausage, chicken sausage, wheat or rye toast, coffee, tea, hot chocolate, no substitutions. rollout out. take you out to your car and put you on a treadmill. this morning i m going to stick with the tater tots because they re easy to eat to anchor a show. hello, everybody. cnn s political analyst roland martin is with us this morning. it s a bad start if i can t get through roland s name. david frum is back with us. nice to have you in person. chatting by satellite. and also this morning, norquist is joining us, president of americans for tax reform. you re going to be our tax expert this morning as we sort through mitt romney s taxes. it s nice to have you. thanks for being with us. mitt romney we know now officially released his tax returns. we re expecting that in about 90 minutes. but there is a preview. the preview is roughly 550 pages long. romney made $21.6 million in 2010. paid over $3 million in taxes. and tesktive tax rate as we mentioned is 1
or soften or somehow talk his or her way out of being richy rich. mitt romney has a very hard time doing that kind of thing, so he s just put himself into a tighter straight jacket than he can perhaps stand over the next six months. wendy schiller, i want you to consider an element in a washington post poll that was released today. it asked voters, what do you think is the bigger problem in this country? unfairness in the economic system that favors the wealthy or overregulation of the free market that interferes with growth and prosperity? 55% say that unfairness in the economic system that favors the wealthy is the worst problem, overregulation, only 35% saw that. those numbers do not bode well for mitt romney going into a general election with this kind of tax return information out there. no, i don t think they do, but they don t bode well for this republican message, which
mitt romney has a very hard time doing that kind of thing, so he s just put himself into a tighter straight jacket than he can perhaps stand over the next six months. wendy schiller, i want you to consider an element in a washington post poll that was released today. it asked voters, what do you think is the bigger problem in this country? unfairness in the economic system that favors the wealthy or overregulation of the free market that interferes with growth and prosperity? 55% say that unfairness in the economic system that favors the wealthy is the worst problem, overregulation, only 35% saw that. those numbers do not bode well for mitt romney going into a general election with this kind of tax return information out there. no, i don t think they do, but they don t bode well for this republican message, which is to get the government out of the economy. we shouldn t have people making investment decisions based on