Muncie Star Press (Indiana) - OUR VIEW: Romney must release tax returns to restore credibility

Romney insists there is nothing hidden in his taxes, that his finances are above-board and held in a blind trust managed by a trustee. But in a radio interview last month, he told the interviewer, “I don’t manage them. I don’t even know where they are. That trustee follows all U.S. laws. All the taxes are paid, as appropriate. All of them have been reported to the government. There’s nothing hidden there.”

He went on to suggest that Obama is making taxes an issue to deflect attention from a weak economy and jobs.

So at this point, we have to take Romney on his word, and that’s been known to change.

Romney just last week has said he’s paid at least 13 percent of his income in taxes for the past decade. Unfortunately for him, because he’s stalled on this issue for so long, the only way to restore his credibility is to actually release his returns.

Otherwise, this issue just won’t go away.

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