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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Democrats, Media Get Punk'd: Romney Releases Tax Returns


It's official: The Romney campaign possesses a wicked sense of humor and an enviable degree of patience.  After months of caterwauling, breathless innuendo and baseless slander, the Democrats and their media allies are being treated to a Friday feast of piping hot crow.  The Romney campaign has released a detailed report of the the candidate's 2011 tax returns, as well as an extensive summary of the Romneys' taxes over the last two decades, prepared by analysts at PricewaterhouseCoopers.  What do these documents contain?  Brad Malt, the Romney family's trustee, summarizes the 2011 data:
 
- In 2011, the Romneys paid $1,935,708 in taxes on $13,696,951 in mostly investment income.
- The Romneys’ effective tax rate for 2011 was 14.1%.
-The Romneys donated $4,020,772 to charity in 2011, amounting to nearly 30% of their income.
-The Romneys claimed a deduction for $2.25 million of those charitable contributions. The Romneys’ generous charitable donations in 2011 would have significantly reduced their tax obligation for the year. The Romneys thus limited their deduction of charitable contributions to conform to the Governor's statement in August, based upon the January estimate of income, that he paid at least 13% in income taxes in each of the last 10 years.
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok now do we get obamas school records or legit birth cert?

Anonymous said...

7:34- No. Because they never existed in the first place.

Anonymous said...

wow i'm impressed. see if obama will man up with his college records

Anonymous said...

obama can't man-up with anything. he's got nuthin'!

Anonymous said...

You mean to tell me Harry Reed didn't know what he was talking about! (Again)