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Earlier this week, we asked Tampa Bay area residents to chime in with their thoughts on Mitt Romney's tax returns. While there have been calls for Romney to release more than just his 2010 and partial 2011 returns to the public, Patch readers had mixed feelings.
Here’s what one Largo Patch reader had to say:
Once you take jealousy and greed out of the equation, the IRS has seen nothing wrong with his returns. Everyone knows he is rich and that he pays 15% on capital gains, which is the current rate. Any other disclosure is only for Obama people to look fir some nugget to try to hurt him with. Negative politics. Why does no one just ask Obama why he is not running on his record instead of against Romney's tax return. He is rich, end of story.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments section.
John Martin
7:42 am on Saturday, July 28, 2012
He has sumitted enough. If the president spent as much time on cleanning his own house as he does looking for dirt we might not be in the shape we are in. Just do your job!
John Martin
Tallahassee Fl.
Ramesh Shah
7:56 am on Saturday, July 28, 2012
Tax returns disclosure will prove to American Public Romney's integrity & honesty
to comply with IRS laws and he is playing 'fair' game.it will help him to win more public support & votes.Does he accumulating all his wealth in foreign countries? So that money is helping other NATIONS to lend money for economic activities & create jobs in those countries and that is loss for USA.- Ramesh Shah- Cleveland Ohio
ccme
8:10 am on Saturday, July 28, 2012
Ramesh - stop making sense. You're confusing Romney's followers.
Richard Sloat
8:21 am on Saturday, July 28, 2012
Capital gains, off shore corporations, Swiss bank accounts are legal but that is what is why lobbyists are paid millions to get such things made legal. Our congress is bought by them, not as bribes, but by legal favors. Another way that "some men rob you with a fountain pen" Thanks Woody Guthrie.
Randy
9:24 am on Saturday, July 28, 2012
I'm sure everything Mitt has done is legal! There's nothing wrong with exploiting working class Americans to get rich! It's done every day!! Wake up America!! He's a silver spoon son of a former politician! I'm sure he knows how to work the system for his own monetary and political gain!! America at its best!!! Greed!!! Just keep voting them in!!
joe and Elyse
9:50 am on Saturday, July 28, 2012
JJR
what is he afraid of ? they wanted to see Clintons penis and Obama's birth certificate but suddenly they don't want to see Mitt's tax records? give me a break. keep drinking the Coolade!
dan
11:45 am on Saturday, July 28, 2012
if his returns didnt make him look anti-american he would have released them
Karen Liebold
1:01 pm on Saturday, August 4, 2012
To open, I am not a Republican or Democrat, so I just want to comment on this as just an ordinary American citizen. Obviously Mr. Romney has followed the law so far concerning his tax returns, or the IRS would have been after him long before this. This tax return stuff is a total waste of everyone's time! We have an election here where we have to look beyond if we like a man or not, or if we are happy or not if he's rich, or if we like his family or not - just choose a candidate based on if they can get the job done. And just like a professional sports team - if the coach, the leader, can't lead his team to victory, maybe we need to find a new leader. Maybe it's simplistic, but sometimes it's best to weed through all of the distractions and just get down to the basics of what's best for our country, not our personal wants!
John Mandujano
9:49 am on Sunday, August 5, 2012
Why do Florida voters have to provide two forms of government-issued photo ids to exercise their right to vote and a presidential candidate is allowed to hide his tax returns?