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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%. it's been above 8% for 43 months. >> meanwhile mitt romney has released his 2011 tax returns. but that's 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. the romney camp also says that the former governor paid an annual average tax rate of about 20.2%...

It turns out being unemployed pays pretty well, if you're 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 wouldn't have fared very well with the american people. romney also released summaries of his tax president 1990 to 2009. they claim romney's a...

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 rom's 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. let's go to this with -- let's 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. it's mitt romney releasing his tax returns for last year. he paid an effective rate of 14.1% which is below ...

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 they're in excellent health. all this on a day in which the battle escalated. in nevada where the polls are virtually tied, romney threw a one-two punch at the president for saying 14 years ago ...

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 it makes him look weak and the american people are not that dumb. >> greta: i suspect in he were he...