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jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 11:51 AM Aug 2012

Is there a "Texas Air National Guard Memo" in the works


This whole "Mitt didn't pay any taxes for ten years" thing seems like a good set-up for a Dan Rather moment.

Whether he did or didn't, the point is that he has not disclosed basic information that is normally released by a candidate for president. We don't know what he paid or didn't pay.

Granted, any further disclosure is going to result in discoveries of interesting things in them.

But the focus on the particular allegation that he didn't pay any taxes seems to be one way to deal with releasing them. If he does release more information, and it shows that he paid a non-zero amount, then does that minimize the impact of other information in them by saying, "You see, all those people were lying about him not paying any taxes"?
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