At the Democratic National Convention that begins a month from today, there will be a chant. It will be relentless. It will be memorable. It will be effective.
“Show me the taxes.”
Mitt Romney can be as indignant as he wants to be, but after the convention, there will be no escaping it. No matter what he is hiding, our imaginations will be able to run rampant and we can fill the void with whatever we choose to make up. All he’ll have to do to disprove all the nonsense is release his taxes, which he won’t be able to do after pounding the table at his own convention that it’s none of our damn business. He will be trapped.
He won’t be able to release them after the DNC convention because it will show that Senator Reid is right.
Or perhaps he did pay some money in US taxes during the last 10 years, and that amount is fairly large. Like a million bucks large. But $1,000,000 is chump change when held next to his net worth, which he clearly doesn’t want anybody to know. So that his tax rate is negligible. And he doesn’t want anybody to really understand exactly how the ultra rich structure their accounts. How they offshore funds. How they escape their complete domestic obligations by using every loophole that exists and how they themselves lobby to put those loopholes into the tax code in the first place. He doesn’t want us to know just how much money he personally would save from his own tax plan. He doesn’t want us to know how anti-patriotic he truly is. I am always amused when he or his campaign repeats the line that he has paid every penny he owes. That may very well be true. But when you’ve rigged the system to allow yourself to owe next to nothing…well that just won’t sit right to the waitress from Indianapolis who has to pay taxes on her tips.
And that will be his downfall. He is presently interviewing for the most visible job in the world by hiding who he is. Who in their right mind would hire someone they don’t know?