01 August 12
enate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nve.) claimed Tuesday in an interview that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney refuses to release additional tax returns because he didn’t pay taxes for 10 years.
The interview, published Tuesday by The Huffington Post, includes several swipes by the Senate leader at the GOP candidate.
“His poor father must be so embarrassed about his
son,” Reid said in reference to George Romney’s decision to turn over 12
years of tax returns when he ran for president in 1968.
Reid suggested that Romney’s decision to withhold tax
information would bar him from ever earning Senate confirmation to a
Cabinet post. Then, Reid recalled a phone call his office received about
a month ago from “a person who had invested with Bain Capital,”
according to The Huffington Post.
Reid said the person told him: “Harry, he didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years.”
“He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that
that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” Reid told HuffPo. “But obviously
he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?”
Neither Reid nor his aides would identify the alleged investor, HuffPo reported.
The Romney campaign has previously denied rumors that Romney hasn’t paid taxes in a single year and he recently told ABC News that he couldn’t recall if there were years when he paid below the 13.9 percent tax rate that he paid in 2010.
In that ABC interview, Romney said he would be “happy
to go back and look” at his tax records, but his campaign aides haven’t
replied to several requests to clarify the former Massachusetts
governor’s comments.
1 comment:
Nice try, but this is obviously a Borowitz article.
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