Harry Reid refuses to release his tax returns, does that also by his own words make him a felon?

All Romney has do to to completely destroy Harry Reid, politically, is to release his tax returns. Why won't he? Why has John McCain, who has seen his tax returns, and passed on him for VP, not come to his aid?

dkush, nothing illeagal about putting money in offshore accounts or Swiss banks last I heard. If you earned it and paid taxes on it you can put it anywhere you want. Who has claimed that Romney's offshore accounts broke any laws?

olderandornier:"Worrying about Romney's taxes is a waste of time. He is very wealthy and dodges taxes any way he can. Just like everyone else, he just has more to dodge. What exactly do you want to see that you don't already know is there?"
The problem is that we need to stop ALL of our government officials and BIG MONEY from shirking their responsibilities of paying their fair share of taxes by putting their money in offshore accounts and not loading us with it all.

How many of obama's appointed persons owed back taxes?

The most absurd thing is Obama and the media calling this a recovery for the last couple of years. What kind of recovery is it when things
are getting no better or even worse?

Worrying about Romney's taxes is a waste of time. He is very wealthy and dodges taxes any way he can. Just like everyone else, he just has more to dodge. What exactly do you want to see that you don't already know is there?

'the IRS refunded 5 billion in fraudulent returns last year based on their estimates'

So what makes you think that they would have caught Romney evading taxes??

Romney was a Governor, Business owner, saved the Olympics, and all around public figure. I'm sure the IRS knows where to find Mr. Romney if they needed to.
Harry Reid is pulling another left wing stunt to keep your eyes off their lousy policies and Obama's tanking numbers.

Tim, Under the Obama rule he has an enimies list and is not afraid to slander them. Take the recent account of several BIG money doners to the RNC. Information is leaked. Reputations are tarnished. If there was something on his opponent it would be leaked. Such as dog on roof of car, vs Obama eating a dog.

Does Uncle Sam generally find out about tax evasion A) before B) during or C) after the evading happened??

If there was a problem with Romney's tax returns anytime in the past 10 years the IRS would be all over his case. Since there has been no reported problems I think this is just harrasment.

Just start with the most common...Tax returns have been released by president hopefuls for decades. It's time for Rmoney to do what's right, show 6 years of returns. That should be no problem unless he has something to hide. Rmoney showed 12 years to McCain when he was being looked at for VP. There must be a reason he is hiding them from the public now.

Woody --- Since when do we ask someone for 10 years of records, to look for improper financial activity. 2 Years were provided, all looked fine. If we dig into 10 years of taxes, then I would like to see all the records that Obama has had sealed. College records, applications, passport etc.... There is much more to discuss on Obama than you could even start to talk about with Romney. That the problem I have. You want everything from one side , but not the other. If Obama opens all his records, then I would agree that ROmney should open his. Otherwise, its just mud slinging and we should stick to the topics of what each candidate represents and will do for the economy.

"The private sector is doing fine"...hand over your money.

While Americans Continue To Struggle Under Obamanomics, Obama Takes Another Break To Party With Celebrities

http://gop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/0...

That's probably a good thing, since they have no answers.

WH Press Corps Goes Seven Weeks Without a Question

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/2012/08...

Chris Matthews blabbering....funny?

oblamer...being that your one of those never ending birthers, here is a video of two elected birthers being questioned. Funny???
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-g7qmmr1...

I have a news flash for ya whz-bang: Not all business are successful, even with investment of capital, either from tax payer subsidized loads, or private investors.
4 years ago the righties gleefully painted Obama as an elitist that didn't represent the "common man". Do you people know who Mitt Romney is? Just another case of blindly supporting the nominee because he's the one that won the cash contest.

We could go back to the Bush days and see what rules were twisted for Halliburton too.
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http://www.independentwatertesting.com/e...

Solyndra was only 535 million. Don't start doing fuzzy math like Walker does.
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http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/201...

That is why it is important to see Rmoneys returns BEFORE the election. He might have made financial choices that were unethical or illeagal. We know he is evading taxes because you don't put money in the Caymans to get a tan. Then there is the issue with his 21million plus IRA which experts call magical. Mitt is for himself and his Bentley driving buddies. JMO

Lets say there was a president that spent $34.7 bil on 60,000 green jobs. Those jobs cost the taxpayer $578,333 per job. Private employers pay roughly $62K a year in wages and benefits for those jobs. So Obama's job creations were 922% higher , paid for by the taxpayers. now consider that 12 of the Solar companies that received that money went bankrupt shortly after the funds were passed out. I think the prez owes us an apology for pouring money down a black hole instead of slamming Romney's tenure at Bain Capital. A good example of how not to run an economy.

Even McCain said it was Fleecing the US Treasury (2002 olympics)

You want less gov spending? Romney was great for spending taxpayers money for the 2002 olympics, total bill: about 1.5 billion. Earmarks are a great source of money,eh?

Maybe Rmoney tax breaks for the rich?

Big Rmoney headline today: Mitt Romney is calling for "something dramatic" to help the economy recover, but he's not saying exactly what.
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Wow, that says alot.....
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http://www.centurylink.net/news/read.php...

Woody is nothing more than an msnbc and young turk parrot.

Rmoney...is he just a "out of touch liar" like some say? Read for your self...
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http://www.realchange.org/romney.htm

Tax returns have been released by president hopefuls for decades.
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You want to talk about school? Did Rmoney release all his school records? Did Bush release his college records??? Would he even want to??? Did he finish school?

So, how did Romney "save" the 2002 olympics? By lobbying congress for earmarks. Yes, the taxpayers were the ones that saved the olympics with a total payout of 1.5 Billion. More than twice the amount of ANY other US olympics. They he brags about it in his book. Did you get a olympic medal for Rmoneys earmarks? No, you got the bill though.
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http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/...

Hey Mitt, were there any american cars that showed up for your fundraiser at the Hamptons? Or, were they all Mercedes Benz, Porsche, Rolls Royce, Bentley, Range Rover, and of course the new 2013 Ferrari.
It's no wonder you would have let the US auto industry fail, your buddies don't even drive them.

George Romney quote: " One year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show, and what mattered in personal finance was how a man conducted himself over the long haul."
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Hey Mitt, did you release just one or two just for show??? How did you "conduct" yourself over the long haul? Swiss bank accounts, Cayman islands, tax shelters, questionable IRA amounts, and a house with a car elevator?
The "just for show" man........

"Did you see what the SC congressman did to US Vets and their families? Refussing to help US Marines because of a fear of fraud. Disgusting, don't you agree?"
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What is disgusting is your take on it. He didn't refuse to help something that has been an issue for ~60 years; sounds like tax returns. The topic he did bring up sounds responsible. Perhaps you missed passed programs claiming to make things right that have been so full of fraud, all in the name of making things right, that cost all taxpayers MILLIONS like the pigford case. Correcting the real issue while covering REAL damages, if/when they occur is the right thing to do. Just like protecting the tax payers from the abuse that happens with these large blanket cases. The only the more ugly is the claims that trying to protect tax payers from fraud means someone wants to "refuse" help.

"Lastly, answer me this off-topic question? Why is forgetting to wear a lapel pin a major anit-American crime but putting money in banks outside of America to avoid paying taxes Patriotic? I recognize that both are legal..."
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Are they the same? Wearing a pin bears what meaning? I could understand if he wore another countries pin in its place would be a problem, but he didn't. Anyone claiming to make a big deal of a pin wasn't going to vote for him anyway, very similar to the cries over tax returns; so what. To the topic on moving money across boarders, if it is such a bad thing all of a sudden, why are the same people that are complaining over one person ignoring the millions who have do it before, including business' and your own govt. I suspect it carries the same weight as a pin and tax returns, the same ones who complain over it where never going to vote for that person anyway; which means it is just partisan banter worth nothing.

"Isn't part of the problem that the economic recession was followed by Reagan economics "trickle down"? The Bush tax cuts took place 6-8 years prior to the recession starting, doubling down doesn't seem to make sense. We can't simply do what you claim Reagan did because what Reagan did had ALREADY BEEN DONE! Tell me where I am wrong. Tell me that cutting taxes didn't take place prior to this recession. Tell me how cutting them more would have made sense."
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Seriously? Letting people keep their own money to spend as they want hurt the economy? What economic teacher have you been listening to? The notion that removing money from the people/business, adding cost to administer govt, and then let govt spend it somehow is better is silly math. If keynesian policy worked it would have during the last 4 years...it failed. A better approach is remove any and all tax gimmicks and have a very simplified rate for all. Having less than 50% paying into a system while a historic number of people are taking from it has failed. Stop the games, stop the silly incentives/deductions/credits, and create a simple streamlined system for all taxpayers including business. The idea that tax lawyers are needed, as a business expense, that consumers end up paying for in the end is nuts. The only thing more crazy is thinking those who keep their own money cost the govt money.

RAF,
Here is A link:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/07/17/28...

RAF,
Honest question...
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Isn't part of the problem that the economic recession was followed by Reagan economics "trickle down"?
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The Bush tax cuts took place 6-8 years prior to the recession starting, doubling down doesn't seem to make sense.
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We can't simply do what you claim Reagan did because what Reagan did had ALREADY BEEN DONE!
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Tell me where I am wrong. Tell me that cutting taxes didn't take place prior to this recession. Tell me how cutting them more would have made sense.
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Lastly, answer me this off-topic question? Why is forgetting to wear a lapel pin a major anit-American crime but putting money in banks outside of America to avoid paying taxes Patriotic? I recognize that both are legal...
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lastly,
Did you see what the SC congressman did to US Vets and their families? Refussing to help US Marines because of a fear of fraud. Disgusting, don't you agree?

As in the past, the numbers will be revised downward, either sometime this month, or next month.

"– If the size of the U.S. labor force as a share of the total population was the same as it was when Barack Obama took office—65.7% then vs. 63.8% today—the U-3 unemployment rate would be 10.9%. Even if you take into account that the LFP should be declining as America ages, the unemployment rate would be 10.5%.

– The broader U-6 unemployment rate, which includes “all persons marginally attached to the labor force, plus total employed part time for economic reasons,” is 14.9%, up a bit from May.

– The average duration of unemployment ticked up to 39.9 weeks.

– It will take 219,000 net new jobs a month for unemployment rate to be below 8% on Election Day if current participation rate holds steady.

– Job growth during the three-year Obama recovery has averaged just 75,000 a month for a total of 2.7 million. During the first three years of the Reagan Recovery, job growth averaged 273,000 a month for a total of 9.8 million. If you adjust for the larger U.S. population today, the Reagan Recovery averaged 360,000 jobs a month for a three-year total of 13 million jobs.

– The U.S. work force remains shrunken with just 58.6% employed:"

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/07/june-jo...

"Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rate for Hispanics (10.3 percent) edged down in July, while the rates for adult men (7.7 percent), adult women (7.5 percent), teenagers (23.8 percent), whites (7.4 percent), and blacks (14.1 percent) showed little or no change. The jobless rate for Asians was 6.2 percent in July (not seasonally adjusted), little changed from a year earlier."

"In July, the number of long-term unemployed (those jobless for 27 weeks and over) was little changed at 5.2 million. These individuals accounted for 40.7 percent of the unemployed."

"Both the civilian labor force participation rate, at 63.7 percent, and the employment-population ratio, at 58.4 percent, changed little in July. The number of persons employed part time for economic reasons (sometimes referred to as involuntary part-time workers) was essentially unchanged at 8.2 million in July. These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job."

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.n...

Ugly information showing how the labor force participation rate has shrunk. If the rate was the same as 4 years ago the unemployment rate would be much higher.

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS113000...

We had the hope, now it is time for the change.