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500 pages. and the other thing is the business deductions. did mitt romney have any business deductions that dealt with bain capital? because if he did, he was flat-out lying to the american people when he said he had no n involvement. and maybe mitt romney has made the political calculation that it s just a heck of a lot safer and a hell of a lot easier to lie to the american people than it is to the internal revenue service. get your cell phones out, i want to know what you think. tonight s question this is a good one what will do more damage to mitt romney s campaign releasing his tax returns or not releasing his tax returns? text a for releasing his returns, text b for not releasing his returns to 622639. our blog is right there for you at ed.msnbc.com. we ll bring you the results later on in the show. i m joined tonight by msnbc political analyst, richard wolffe, and rick tyler, republican strategist and former communications director for newt gingrich. ....
Troubled company and either borrows money, pays them back in enormous dividends and watches it go into bankruptcy, or as luck would have it, maybe the company turns around. the point is he s saying he has the prescription for an economy, and what he has the prescription for is an investor class, a bit of venture capitalism which doesn t at all apply to a nation s accounting. katherine didn t go to the heart of it. what the obama campaign is doing they re focusing primarily on mitt romney s business experience because that s what he says we should focus on. nobody is talking about his experience as governor because he doesn t want to talk about that because massachusetts ranked 47th of 50 states in job creation. and when he came in, the unemployment rate was below the national average and when he left, it was above the national average. how effective is this ad? this goes along with the daisy ad or the willy horton ad. this is one of the most ....
Repeated it on cnn. he took a leave of absence and ended up not going back at all and retired retroactively. gr did romney give back the salary he made between 1999 and 2002 when he retired retroactively? look here, folks, here s the bottom line, the s.e.c. filings shows romney made at least d $100,000 a year as he was allegedly doing nothing at the ceo of bain. maybe he should have followed the lead of his father, he stepped down of the american motors corporation when he ran for office. it was real simple. a report in the nation said the board elected george romney as vice chairman but granted him an indefinite leave of absence without pay. mitt romney chose to retroactively retire. he was double dipping. but more importantly, the romney campaign still cannot say who was running bain capital during the time in question. does the governor think that ....
Romney s answers are clouding the issue, no doubt. it s getting so bad for mitt romney, even conservative pundits are urging him to release his tax returns to get everything out in the open. mitt romney is losing at this point in a big way. if something is going to come out, get it out in a hurry. he should release the tax returns tomorrow. you have to release six, eight years of tax returns. there s obviously something there. if there was nothing there, he would say have at it. there s something that compromises what he said in the past about something. i think the bigger thing is it s arrogance. romney and his campaign insist they will only release this year s and last year s returns. they re even resorting to fake examples, fake examples to make their case. senator mccain is republican nominee in the last election, was the relevant start, a standard that senator john kerry said was the standard. hang on a second here. john kerry, you know what he did? he released way mor ....
Years of tax returns because he was running in the senate numerous years, in fact, by the time he was running for president in 2004, john kerry had released 20 years of tax returns. mitt romney tried to correct the campaign s mistake when he was on fox and friends this morning. john kerry ran for president, you know, his wife, who has hundreds of millions of dollars, she never released her tax returns. somehow this wasn t an issue. maybe it wasn t an issue because theresa heinz kerry, she wasn t running for president of the united states. romney and his campaign, you know what they are, they re really boxed in on this issue and they don t have an answer. conservative columnist george will identified his main issue. the cost of not releasing the returns are clear. therefore, he must have calculated there are higher costs in releasing them. and hes rr going to tough it out. the consequences for releasing the tax returns must be pretty bad for mitt romney if he would rather get ....