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I just spent an hour wandering through Gov. Romney's 2010 1040 and its attachments. I am impressed by a couple of things. First Mitt doesn't have a job and the tax return with attachments is 203 pages in length. Mitt gave his church a total of 2.9 million dollars between cash and non-cash transfers as I read the returns. That's not quite a tithe but it's close. Second Mitt isn't quite the job creator he bills himself to be. He took a deduction for twenty thousand dollars and some change for houselhold employees. That's one maybe two low paying jobs he and his wife created. I also noticed that much of his income came from foreign investments in Europe and other places like the Cayman Islands. He is also earning income from several trusts. No detail on these foreign investments or the trusts is given other than the amount he and his Missus received from those investments and trusts. Without that detail there is no way for the public to know what it is that Mitt actually does for a living other than making speeches and clipping coupons. His and his wife's health insurance premiums were only at about a total of fourteen thousand dollars in that year. That certainly was far less than what my last year of medical insurance cost before I became eligible for medicare.
Your father George released twelve years of tax returns when he ran for President in 1968. You have whined and complained about releasing one year. Sorry but I can't feel your pain.
Sorry Mitt but your fiances are so foreign to mine that I just can't conceive of you being one of us. You stated publicly that you didn't earn much from speaking fees. I certainly think that $375K for talking about anything does not qualify as 'not a lot.' And you are going to do what for the American People and the vanishing middle class?