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Bold Guardian Headline Implies Romney is a Crook
Mitt Romney’s tax returns: the ‘voter fraud’ theory
…despite not owning a house in Massachusetts and having given every appearance of having moved to California – he registered and voted in the Massachusetts special election to replace the deceased Senator Ted Kennedy. Given the GOP’s ongoing use of the “voter fraud” fable to justify modern Jim Crow laws and its highly-publicized persecution of the voter registration group Acorn, an actual case of felony voter fraud committed by the Republican nominee could have been a big story – but Romney was able to tamp down the flames by claiming, not very credibly but also not disprovably, that he and Ann actually were living in their son Tagg’s Belmont, Massachusetts basement in 2010. Without proof that Romney lied about where he lived, there’s no felony – and no big national story.
Many (many, many, many, many, many) theories have been advanced to explain why Romney keeps refusing to produce any returns prior to 2010, ranging from “voters might learn he’s wealthy” (which voters already know) to “he underpaid his church tithe” (doubtful).
None of them is really satisfactory, because none of them posits Romney concealing any facts more harmful than the blowback he is getting for not producing more returns. The problem may be that all of the prominent theories (with a couple of under-noticed exceptions) assume Romney is trying to conceal facts about his finances. Like the purloined letter pinned prominently in plain sight, what Romney’s really hiding might be something more mundane: the home address written on the top of the tax form. That address that might reveal a connection between the “tax returns” brouhaha and the “voter fraud” fizzle – which may be the strongest explanation of all. Here’s why.
Tax returns require taxpayers to state their residence address, and the Romney returns already produced, although partially redacted, state clearly that they lived in “Belmont, MA 02478″ in 2012 (tax year 2011) (pdf) and 2011 (tax year 2010) (pdf):
The Romneys’ 2010 tax return
But the Romneys, arbitrarily, refuse to disclose a copy of the returns they filed in 2010 or 2009 (for tax years 2009 and 2008) – which, perhaps not coincidentally, bracket the time period when Romney allegedly committed fraud by voting in Massachusetts when he actually resided in California. So here’s the question: did Romney put his son’s basement’s address on the returns he filed in 2009 and 2010? Or did he truthfully use his real (non-Massachusetts) address, thus implicating himself in voter fraud?
Still no investigations into Obama, however.
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serfer62
August 18th, 2012
Knock off the BS
The question is do we want another 4 years of this crap
yes or no
GM Car Of The Future
August 18th, 2012
Britain is lost…so those damn teawops want America to down the same path, too.
GM Car Of The Future
August 18th, 2012
Yeah, I said it.
Tennessee Vol
August 18th, 2012
I am perpetually amazed at the media’s desire to see Mitt’s tax returns, yet that same media doesn’t want to see Obama’s college transcripts, his REAL birth certificate, his REAL social security number, his passport, his college financial papers, and more.
Obama is a fraud, a con, a usurper. Yet the media wants to see Mitt’s tax returns.
I’m hoping that Mitt will say to Obama, “Okay. I’ll release my tax returns. Right after you release . . .” and then he lists off all the things that Obama has sealed.
Clyde
August 18th, 2012
Ah, the Brits. They love to talk about US politicians and, in their gossipy Brit way, make snide remarks. It’s especially true when it comes to a conservative US politician who shows backbone.
But God forbid an American ever comment to a Brit about their politics. They become unhinged like a meeting of Code Pink and OWS with Cindy Sheehan as m.c. and Rosanne Barr and Cher as entertainment.
The Brits want to see us with a political system as weak, or weaker than theirs.
bitterclinger
August 18th, 2012
The Guardian may as well as be called “Commie Central” or “Obama Love Notes.”
To quote Monty Python: What’s brown and sounds like a bell?
Dung! (or the UK Guardian)
Chunkdog
August 18th, 2012
I love the way they say he is living in the son’s basement.
Romney has money ago I’m sure they have an in-law suite. They make it sound like they are living in the basement rec room with shag carpeting, a dropped ceiling, dart boards on the wall and puling the sofa bed out every night.
At this point, even if Romney paid nothing, I would applaud him for keeping it out of obamas clutches. Moochelle would only take a few.more vacations with it.
Hurling Dervish
August 18th, 2012
Well why do you suppose he won’t release his tax returns, then? There’s got to be some reason, given all the questions they raise.
Serious Putty
August 18th, 2012
Why don’t you release yours?
dizzymissl
August 18th, 2012
The less he pays, the more I like him. Starve the beast.
F.D.R. in Hell
August 18th, 2012
Sounds like something tossed over the transom by the Obama Mob and designed to work its way back across the Atlantic like an illegal alien on a shrimp boat.
We all had our operatives, but this Moslem boy takes the cake.