Laura Ingraham: People Want Romney’s Tax Info To Make Him A ‘Stereotypical One Percenter’

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by Alex Alvarez | 2:00 pm, January 20th, 2012

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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney called in to Laura Ingraham‘s radio show Friday, where the host pressed him on when, if ever, he’ll release his tax information to the public.

Ingraham brought up a talking point that sprung up during last night’s debate and which seemed, to some commenters, to have left Romney surprised: The fact that his father had been very transparent and open regarding the sharing off his own tax information back in 1967. Was Romney aware of this?

“Oh yes,” said Romney, “and we’ve talked about that beforehand. And what he did in 1967 is very different than what’s going to happen today. But, surely, I was aware of his experience. I remember reading it in Look magazine. We used to have Look magazine, long ago. And the idea that I am supposed to follow exactly what my dad did is not something I find terribly compelling; we disagreed in the past.”

Later, Romney said that his investments have been managed “by a trustee in a blind trust for the last ten years,” and that information on the investments that trustee has made on Romney’s behalf is available. “So if you want to calculate what income you think I might have,” he said, “well, you can just look at the various assets” and figure it out.

What his plan is, ultimately, is to release his tax information all at once, most likely once his 2011 return is completed this April, to avoid a “dropping faucet” of information that can be used by rivals against him. When Romney expressed confusion over why this is an issue now, when John McCain and George Bush before him released their respective tax information in April without a fuss, Ingraham surmised that the DNC is trying to paint him as the stereotypical “one percenter.” Top hat, monocle and all.

Now: The economy!

Ingraham pointed out that the President and Treasury Secretary have said the economy is getting better, with more job being created on a monthly basis. Romney himself, she added, has said there are signs improvement on the horizon. So, “how do you answer the President’s argument that the economy is getting better in a general election campaign if you yourself are saying that it’s getting better?”

“Well, of course it’s getting better,” said Romney. “The economy always gets better after a recession.” The question, he continued, is whether it’s getting better because of something the President has done, or whether he’s delaying that inevitable recovery. You can guess which side of the fence Romney falls on.

“Isn’t that a hard argument to make?” asked Ingraham.

Romney didn’t flinch: “Do you have a better one, Laura?”

Have a listen, courtesy of The Laura Ingraham Show:

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Gloves Dogg Donahue

The economy is only one of a huge number of reasons that Obama has to go.
The vast corruption, union giveaways, scandals and failures have got to stop.
The President says he can’t work with Congress, so he goes around them, and the law.
Is that the reason he should be reelected? More of the same?
Jardino

General Motors has largest share of world auto market again. They could not have done it without help from unions. Conservatives would have liked GM to go bankrupt. Conservatives seem to prefer failure. Conservatives would have liked the government to pay GM’s pension insurance and more long-term unemployment. Conservatives must be disappointed that one million jobs were saved.

MORE OF THE SAME, PLEASE !!!
Anonymous

What makes you think that any of that will be any different for anyone else?
Anonymous

People don’t need his tax returns to make him out to be a ‘stereotypical one percenter’. He does that himself by owning multiple mansions, appearing awkward in his dealings with middle-class Americans, and saying that $300k isn’t a lot of money.
Anonymous

Our current President think 1 billion isn’t a lot of money…

And Michelle will blow $300k of taxpayer money in one weekend in spain with her two “senior advisors” in tow.
bob ross

He is a 1%er….If your rich thats not a bad thing.
Anonymous

People know he is the 1% they just want to know how much he cheated on the IRS.
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1190134026 Barry Dalton

“one weekend”?

try every weekend!

That woman is buying bling bling all over the world on tax payer money.

There has never been such a wave of corruption in the history of our great nation.

We need Romney NOW!
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1101787825 Greg Young

Obama went around congress. He CAN’T work with congress because they’re continuously not in session.
And when they are in session, they refuse to work with him.

He didn’t go around the law.
He was perfectly within the law to do what he did.
If he had gone around the law … don’t you think he’d be held accountable for that?Hell … he’s a black guy ! Black people go to prison in America when they go around the law ! You know as well as I do that the repub party would try to lynch Obama if they actually thought he broke the law.

Why don’t you do yourself and your republican friends a favor …
Just stop making up lies about Obama. You guys can’t just keep throwing BS at the wall to see if something sticks.
Every time you guys do that, it just makes you look even more desperate and stupid than before.
Anonymous

That’s not the problem. The problem comes when someone gets millions of dollars in income, doesn’t have to actually work for it, and pays a lower rate than people who do. It is further complicated because Romney’s economic plan call for lowering his rate, and upping everyone else’s.
Anonymous

If Romney waits until April to release his tax records, it wont matter by then. Three more months of drip, drip, drip on this issue will effectively paint a negative picture in the minds of voters that he is hiding something.
expatpatriot

To quote Dick Cavett while interviewing Salvador Dali (who had about the same connection to reality as you appear to have): “Oogah-boogah.”
expatpatriot

a) The Republican Party machine seems incapable of campaigning on real issues and instead has adopted generic swiftboating as its sole campaign tactic. It’s distinctly possible that this derangement will untimately kill the party in toto.

b) Why would anyone want them to stop flinging turds? I want them to throw *more* bullshit at the walls. While they’ve as much as handed Obama a victory in November by way of the excruciating freak show that has been their presidential primary, America needs a enough Teeper fanatics turned out of Congress to give the adults a chance to govern.