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Reince Priebus calls Harry Reid a “dirty liar.” Why won’t Mitt Romney man up and prove it?

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The first week in July, the RNC’s own Reince Priebus went on Fox “News” Sunday and said the president “isn’t living on planet Earth,” repeatedly criticized the last four years as a “misery,” and called Obama “the most divisive, nasty, negative campaigner” in the nation’s history. Today he went on ABC’s This Week to call Harry Reid a “dirty liar.”

You know what, Reince Priebus? Have Mitt Romney PROVE Harry Reid’s a dirty liar.

Reid Spokesman Adam Jentleson struck back at Priebus by calling Romney “the most secretive candidate since Richard Nixon,” and went on to say it’s sad that Romney has “forced his party to defend his decision to hide the truth about his tax returns..”

Republicans can try to cover up for Mitt Romney’s stonewalling all they want, but this issue is not going away until Romney decides to be straight with the American people and release his tax returns.  It is sad that the most secretive candidate since Richard Nixon has forced his party to defend his decision to hide the truth about his tax returns.  As Senator Reid has said, an extremely credible source informed him that Mitt Romney did not pay taxes for ten years. From the one year of returns Romney has released, we’ve seen that he uses secret offshore accounts in places like Switzerland and the Cayman Islands to avoid paying U.S. taxes.  It’s clear Mitt Romney is hiding something, and the only way for him to clear this up is to be straight with the American people and release his tax returns.

How on earth the GOP voting base can be satisfied by this level of secrecy and dishonesty in their presidential candidate is really a testament to their own levels of pathological ideology trumping everything else that should matter to Americans. Keep defending the indefensible and see how far that gets you.

Romney says he’s paid “a lot of taxes.” Just take his word for it.

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“I have paid taxes every year. A lot of taxes. A lot of taxes.” — Mitt Romney, quoted by Reuters, denying charges that he paid no federal taxes for a decade. (via)

As Dennis at Balloon Juice points out,

“Mitt could have paid—and most likely did pay—lots and lots of property taxes every year. He had three to five estates every year over the last dozen years and his taxes on just his Utah estate were over $42,000 in 2007 and over $50,000 in many other years—and that was just one of his estates. And then there would be other local taxes, state taxes and taxes on various business entities that Mitt owned. And in any year when Mitt actually worked, he would have paid Social Security on his first $106,000 of recorded income.

“Mitt could pay all those taxes and then use those payments, loopholes and shell corporations to bring his Federal Income Taxes to zero or at least a rate far, far less than the rate 95 percent of Americans pay.

“So, Mitt’s statement, “I have paid taxes every year, and a lot of taxes” is a classic non-denial denial. Of course he paid taxes. What he didn’t say was that he paid Federal Income Taxes every year. His denial is not specific about the type of taxes he paid. His Federal Income Tax payments and the amount or rate he paid for each of the last dozen years is an open question. It will continue to be a fair question to ask and to speculate about until he releases his taxes.”

Of course before you take Mitt’s word on ANYTHING, you might want to check out the 28 lies that Romney told just this past week, in Steve Benen’s weekly segment: Chronicling Mitt’s Mendacity, Vol. XXVIII.


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