Reid did NOT claim that Romney had not paid taxes in 10 years.

[Kablooie]

He only said he heard this from a reliable source.

If the Bubilcans accuse him of lying he could only be accused of lying about hearing this.

He never claimed he had proof of the allegation.

[eridani]

1. No, he claimed that Rmoney hadn't paid INCOME taxes for 10 years.

Rmoney's carefully worded denial did not contain the word "income" either.

[former9thward]

2. No he said taxes.

Exact quote: As I said before, I was told by an extremely credible source that Romney has not paid taxes for ten years.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-congress/2012/08/reid-extremely-credible-source-said-romney-didnt-pay-130987.html

[eridani]

3. Property taxes and sales taxes are taxes

That info would not necessarily be on a 1040 unless the mittster was claiming them as writeoffs.

[Festivito]

5. "THE WORD IS OUT..." That is: the word is out...

that Romney paid no taxes.

George Stephanopolous played the snippet from the floor. Then George asked about the allegation without saying what allegation he meant, that R$ paid no taxes, or that THE WORD IS OUT that R$ paid no taxes.