{"id":12719,"date":"2012-09-25T05:30:02","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T09:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geneveith.com\/?p=12719"},"modified":"2012-09-25T05:30:02","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T09:30:02","slug":"romneys-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/romneys-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney’s taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Democrats have been accusing Romney of not paying any income taxes or of hiding something in his finances.\u00a0 So the Republican presidential nominee has released his 2011 returns.\u00a0 It turns out, he paid 14.1% of his income to the government.\u00a0 And he paid 30% to charity.\u00a0\u00a0 He didn\u2019t even claim all of the charitable deductions he could have!<\/p>\n

He also submitted a letter from his tax accountants, PriceCooperWaterhouse, saying that between 1990 and 2009, his average taxrate was 20.2% and that he never paid less than 13.66%.<\/p>\n

So much for the Democrats\u2019 tactic of trying to demonize the guy over his taxes, though the Washington Post<\/em> article giving the details takes a strangely negative tone (saying how his taxes \u201cwould have been\u201d only 10% if he took all of his deductions, that he could amend his return at any time, that we still don\u2019t know the flow of his investment income, and other irrelevant attempts to put the worst construction on facts that are all to Romney\u2019s credit).<\/p>\n

\nvia Mitt Romney releases tax return for 2011, showing he paid 14.1 percent tax rate \u2013 The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats have been accusing Romney of not paying any income taxes or of hiding something in his finances.\u00a0 So the Republican presidential nominee has released his 2011 returns.\u00a0 It turns out, he paid 14.1% of his income to the government.\u00a0 And he paid 30% to charity.\u00a0\u00a0 He didn\u2019t even claim all of the charitable deductions […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1281,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,36],"tags":[65,1473,2155],"class_list":["post-12719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-politics","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-mitt-romney","tag-taxes"],"yoast_head":"\nRomney's taxes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Democrats have been accusing Romney of not paying any income taxes or of hiding something in his finances.\u00a0 So the Republican presidential nominee has\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/romneys-taxes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Romney's taxes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Democrats have been accusing Romney of not paying any income taxes or of hiding something in his finances.\u00a0 So the Republican presidential nominee has\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/romneys-taxes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cranach\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cranachblog\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-09-25T09:30:02+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Gene Veith\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/romneys-taxes\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/romneys-taxes\/\",\"name\":\"Romney's taxes\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2012-09-25T09:30:02+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2012-09-25T09:30:02+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\"},\"description\":\"Democrats have been accusing Romney of not paying any income taxes or of hiding something in his finances.\u00a0 So the Republican presidential nominee has\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/romneys-taxes\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/romneys-taxes\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/2012\/09\/romneys-taxes\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Romney’s taxes\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/\",\"name\":\"Cranach\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/f9ca8670bcc51908a78994c0484dbfa1\",\"name\":\"Gene Veith\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/geneveith\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/054d79faea5d476edd8f99e5f14fb17f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Gene Veith\"},\"description\":\"Gene Edward Veith, Jr. is a writer and retired literature professor, serving as Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College. 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