Did Romney Possibly Commit Fraud on His Income Taxes, But Received Amnesty?
In a brilliant critique of an NBC interview with a defiant Ann Romney who disdainfully refused to release any further family income taxes, Lawrence O'Donnell raises the interesting prospect that the real smoking gun may be that the GOP presidential candidate committed a felony by sequestering taxable income offshore.
This is speculation, of course, because as Ann Romney has said, she and Mitt won't release more income taxes because it will provide the public with "ammunition." Of course, as O'Donnell points out, there is only ammunition if there are improprieties.
Beyond Harry Reid's claim of informed knowledge that that Romneys have paid no income taxes for a period of ten years in the recent past, the most compelling possible scenario is that in 2008 many of the nation's 1% paid little or no income tax because they took large capital gain losses as offsets against capital gain profits due to the crash of Wall Street. Romney quite possibly, given his inclusion in the plutocracy, was among those who paid no income tax.
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