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Is what they showed. tax rate of 14.1% in 2011 and in is summary paid an average of 20.2% and never less than 13.7%. may be the single dumbest question i ever asked in my time here at "fox news sunday." does that end the romney tax return issue for the obama campaign? >> you put it up on the screen. he gave his accountant 20 years and gave the american people two. chris, what is he hiding? why does he have corporations in bermuda and investments in the caymans. why is somebody who says they will...

Mitt romney, 48/46% and look at this, the race is tightening even in deep red arizona. that poll shows romney with a lead over the president by three points and the romney campaign says everyone is safe im chris matthews in sunny his wifes plane made a smoke-filed landing in the cabin. lets go to this with howard fineman joining us right now. i want to read to you a classic example of a news dump. he paid an effective rate of 14.1% which which is below the rate we know they pay of taxes and the ...

The race is tightening in deep red arizona. that new purple strategies poll shows romney with a lead of just three points over the president. and this just in, the romney campaign says everyone is safe after ann romneys plane made an emergency landing in colorado after smoke filled the cabin. ann romney even tweeted about it saying everyone is okay. good for her. lets go to this with -- lets go to this with howard fineman joining us right now. i want to read to you right now a classic example of...

The peoples business until after the november election. what does that mean for the fiscal cliff? hi, great to have you with me. welcome to "weekends with alex witt," im thomas roberts. alex has the day off. heres whats happening as we start out 45 days and counting. today new questions about mitt romneys taxes after going public with his full 2011 return. he released those returns late friday. a document dump if you will. and also provided a certified summary of his tax returns over a two-dec...

Of his taxes from 1990 to 2009. they claim romneys average tax rate for those years is 20.2%. they also claim that the lowest rate romney ever paid was 13.6%. there is a whole lot of information here to digest in these documents and what it all means. our next guest can do it better than anybody. im joined by david cay johnston, author of "the fine print, how big companies use plain english to rob you blind". great to have you with us tonight. when you see the tax return of mitt romney 2011, wha...

Billion and spend it in washington, give it to a bunch of businesses that are friends and a bunch of government programs that unemployment would never get above 8%. its been above 8% for 43 months. >> meanwhile mitt romney has released his 2011 tax returns. but thats fuelling even more questions and some new criticism from democrats today. for 2011 the romneys paid an effective tax rate of 14.1% on an income of about $13.7 million. now mitt and ann romney also donate about $4 million to charity....

It turns out being unemployed pays pretty well, if youre mitt romney. he released his 2011 tax returns in a late friday news dump. he paid $1,935, 708 in taxes. his effective tax rate was 14.1%. would you like to have that rate? the romneys also donated to their credit $4 million to charity in 2011 and claimed a $2 million deduction on those contributions. if he had taken full deductions, his tax rate would have been somewhere around 9%. that probably wouldnt have fared very well with the americ...

The race is tightening in deep red arizona. romney with a lead of just three points over the president. and this just in, the romney campaign says everyone is safe after ann roms plan made an emergency landing in colorado after smoke filled the cabin. ann romney even tweeted about it saying everyone is okay. good for her. lets go to this with -- lets go to this with howard fineman joining us right now. i want to read to you right now a classic example of a friday afternoon news dump. its mitt ro...

Deductions last year kept it accurate. president obama released his 2011 tax return in april showing adjusted gross income of $700,000. he paid $162,000 in taxes for effective tax rate of 20.5%. also released by the romney campaign today, notized letter from the romney tax preparer to showing from 1990 to 2009 his average tax rate was 20.2%. both romney and paul ryan released medical records indicating theyre in excellent health. all this on a day in which the battle escalated. in nevada where t...

Office, spending wildly. he comes in and spends a lot more t.a.r.p. money and asks for an omnibus spending bill and also asks for a stimulus bill of $862 billion. if you take a look at it and his spending, it drives spending from 20.2% of gdp, including the t.a.r.p. monet and auto money and the budget that he approved to nearly 25% of gdp after obama gets into office. he is responsible for the debt runup on his watch. it is fine for him to blame it on president bush or a japanese sawtsunami, but...