Gingrich to release tax returns, challenges Romney

[highplainsdem]

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/01/newt-gingrich-tax-returns-mitt-romney-/1

Newt Gingrich said today he'll release his income tax returns this week and challenged GOP front-runner Mitt Romney to do the same.

"The country deserves accountability and transparency," Gingrich said on NBC's Meet the Press. "I'm going to try to set the example to provide the leadership to do the right thing."

Gingrich said he'll release his tax returns on Thursday, two days before South Carolina's presidential primary.

Andrea Saul, a Romney spokeswoman, said the former Massachusetts governor's campaign will "look at the question of releasing tax returns during the next tax filing season."

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[MADem]

1. Let me be the first to REC this (Tiffany's) jewel!!! nt

[DCBob]

2. Good move by the Grinch.

puts Willard on the spot.

[immoderate]

3. Obama says...

--imm

[Kingofalldems]

4. Newty doing our work for us

Thanks Newty.

[senseandsensibility]

5. hee hee

The fix is in with Romney since almost all repug voters will vote as the moneyed interests tell them to. But that doesn't mean that we can't have any fun in the meantime.

[tclambert]

6. "The country deserves accountability and transparency," Gingrich said. AHHHH!

Aliens have taken over Newt Gingrich's brain!

[bayareaboy]

20. No! It's not his brain... ...

Newt took off a pair of Mitt signature "liar Liar pants on fire" magic pants, so now his intellect can expand.

[stevedeshazer]

7. I welcome Newt's newfound honesty.

He is doing the Obama campaign an enormous favor.

+1

[fire_guy266]

11. I never thought I would ever thank Newt for anything

Romney can't release his tax returns. First of all he probably has some off-shore accounts from which he pays no taxes. When he left Bain in 96, he left himself a nice golden parachute. He still gets millions from Bain even though he hasn't worked there in 14 years. It's embarrassing on several fronts. He only pays 15% tax on that money. When you leave a job how much do you get? In the real world most people get nothing, but Mitt gets millions. He is pretending to be a man of the people. This would just provide more proof about how out of touch he is from people who really have to work for a living rather than find clever ways to "game" the system.

Sorry, I mean the job creator gets a reduced tax rate as an incentive for all the jobs that he creates.

[customerserviceguy]

12. Somebody on another thread filled me in on another reason

The Mormons want their 10% tithe, and if Mittens will not act honestly in any other area of life, why do we believe he will give to SLC the money they really want?

Now if he gets to be President, and has to release his tax returns, all will be forgiven, since he will have given the missionaries the best recruiting tool they have ever had. But why expose it all unless you win the brass ring?

[Iliyah]

8. Newt is still reeling

over Mitten pac's attack on him in Iowa. Newt needs to also reveal his contract with Fannie Mae. He's acting like a women whos been wronged - LOL

[Skittles]

17. PAC ATTACK

[Ikonoklast]

9. I wonder if Mittens still thinks he destroyed Newt back in Iowa.

Newt's campaign is like an undead, unkillable Political Zombie, slowly, relentlessly shuffling in your direction with its hands outstretched towards your throat.

You can keep away from the shambling, decaying political carcass just by moving a little bit, but you can never really make it stop from coming after you.

[customerserviceguy]

13. Zombie Candidate!

That's a damned good way to describe him.

[Historic NY]

22. He has money to burn & a score to settle.

[nxylas]

24. And an ego the size of a planet

Would you stand down if you truly believed that you were the only thing that stood between us and Auschwitz?

[oberliner]

10. Do you remember when his shtick was that he would run a positive campaign based on big ideas?

Boy that sure went out the window in a hurry.

[Botany]

14. Go for it Newt because scorched earth is the way to go

[Tx4obama]

15. Oh this is going to be fun !!!

[Skittles]

16. CORRECT

PASS THE POPCORN, Tx4obama!

[gateley]

18. Just saw a post saying Santorum is, too. nt

[highplainsdem]

19. I just posted that in GD, after finding it while checking Google News.

Had to post it in GD because it was a blog rather than a news article.

[gateley]

26. So everybody but Mitt. They're talking about it on MSNBC right now. nt

[sarcasmo]

21. Thanks to the right for destroying each other.

What is the guess, did Romney make 50 million last year or 150 million?

[Historic NY]

23. The question is how much tax he didn't pay......

[sarcasmo]

29. I would say very little, the rich have the best tax accounts money can buy.

[MGKrebs]

25. If Mitt didn't release them last time when he was losing I doubt he will

release them now when he is in the lead. Absolutely no reason to.

[DCBob]

27. Romney's response...

<crickets>

[DallasNE]

28. So Romney May Release His Tax Returns In 2013

That will sure help a lot -- not.

Since we are already into this tax filing season the next tax filing season is 2013. Why are politicians always using such slippery language to make a point? Romney is basically saying "screw you" to transparency and the American people. I'm sure others will point this out as well.