shore and release two years of tax return where everything is simple. there s a level of arrogance for that. and i just can t figure out why some political consultant or he himself thinks let s just make this not a problem for me going forward. that s part of the out of tup thi touch thing. he s out of touch with real politic ps. in 1994, when he ran for the senate in massachusetts, from that year forward, everyone around romney should have said hey, let s get the tax return squeaky clean. karen, go ahead. it s also a very corporate ceo mentality that doesn t acknowledge there s an accountability to the rest of us. i don t have to show you that. i ll show you to the letter of the law, but those who are voting for, you re accountable
no, he s actually got his citizenship here now. i just think it s funny that people forget he s not actually from this country but obviously has such a dramatic influence and clearly strong views. and it turns out the wall street journal doesn t like all this jet ski stuff that romney is doing. they re saying look, you re looking exactly like john kerry out there, doing the rich guy water sports just when they re painting you as the out of touch rich guy. a, they re right about that. and b, they jet skis are so uncool, first of all. they re out of touch. i like jet skis. i have to disagree with you there. jet skis are fun. we re going to have a nautical design disagreement here. here s the thing about this editorial. you know, the cheapest, like the cheapest words in the language are backseat campaign advice. the easiest thing in the universe to do is to write 800 words about what a campaign
in-sourcing. he fought to save the auto industry and favors tax companies for companies that bring jobs home. outsourcing versus in-sourcing. it matters. in the past you ve had these kinds of issues for tax breaks for sending jo bs overseas. but this candidate is a personal profiteer from this kind of thing in his past, which makes it just so much more strange for romney to have to deal with. it is. and this is, you know, the trap of running on your resume, which actually i believe the wall street journal pointed out. that s what john kerry did. he ran on his biography. mitt romney runs on his biography. what if your biography tracks the very sort of disasters that occurred in the american economy and that people feel personally. i think the outsourcing or in-sources or jouf shoring, whatever that was. who doesn t know someone or some family or some community that hasn t been affected by this.
and so, i mean, there s a law school class in which there s a point to be made. he s trying to make. but i mean, you can t possibly sell that. this is the thing that s always so bizarre about the argument both you re just looking at your book it s distracting. it s beautiful. it s like a picture of your body. i could be holding up a pictu picture of your kid or the book cover. i would definitely look at my beautiful daughter. this is always what s so bizarre about the argument about it as it worked through the courts. the reason we ve hit this point, right, where we re having this bizarre philosophy of language debate about what is or is not a tax is that the structure of the thing was always clear. it was a penalty that was collected through the irs. right. and in massachusetts, the way you comply with the mandate is you attach to your massachusetts income tax return
as well. using the tax code, using insentives and penalties and now they re turning around as if this is some ridiculous notion. this is the model they created. you re distracting many e. i m just reading about the tax reform act. it s one of my favorites. this thing, by the way, if you can work your way through what romney actually said, it s kind of sort of true in a constitutional way. we have 51 constitutions in this country. 50 state constitutions, one, you know, federal. and some of these state tunes like massachusetts provide in the constitution very broad power for the state legislation to enact things in the general welfare and they don t need the massachusetts constitutional power to tax to ground it, or they don t even have a commerce clause, obviously.