Do you really care about Romney’s tax returns?

Don’t you try to pay as little tax as you can?

Why would anybody pay more income tax than they have to? Don’t you think Uncle Sam is getting enough of the income you work for?

That may be how Romney feels. I prefer to have a president that understands that we don’t want to pay higher taxes.

I also want a president that knows how to make money and how to save money.

Romney said late on Thursday: “I’m not going to apologize for being successful.”

Maybe he hasn’t saved all the jobs at all the companies Bain Capital has ever owned. He has however created far more jobs than he might have caused to be lost.

Do you think that all the companies Obama and Gingrich invested in always saved every employees job?

I hate to even bring this up but how long was it before Obama produced proof that he is an American citizen when he was running for President the first time in 2008?

He released his birth certificate in June 2008; His presidential campaign began in February 2007. So it took him more than year to produce a document far more important that Romney’s tax returns.

Barack Obama didn’t release his tax returns until March 2008, also a year after beginning his campaign for president.

I’m not suggesting that Obama is not an American Citizen or that he cheated on his taxes; just that it took him a long time to prove it. And like Romney, he had nothing to hide, so why take so long, and why criticize Romney for doing the same thing?

The same can be said for Gingrich. Not about his tax filings but more about his history. He keeps attacking Romney on his history as an investor at Bain Capital, indicating that Romney’s can’t be trusted to do what’s right.

We are however, according to Gingrich supposed to believe in, and trust him to do the right thing. He says we shouldn’t bring up his past, particularly his problems with infidelity, and the story he tells about his being responsible for four years of a balanced budget. At a time when he was not even in office.

Newt Gingrich, said “I helped balance the federal budget for four straight years, the only time in your lifetime we had four years of a balanced budget. We paid over $400 billion in federal debt off.” NOT TRUE

Gingrich was off on both claims concerning the budget. The budget was indeed balanced for four years, but it’s a stretch for him to take credit for more than two of those years. As for paying off $405 billion in debt, the data we found shows the debt actually increased during Gingrich’s four-year tenure as speaker by more than $800 billion. We rate Gingrich’s claim False. Politifact.com

The problem is that Gingrich left office in January 1999. That means he was in office for only 2 of the four years.

So, back to the original question about Romney’s taxes. If you are planning to vote for him now
and you find out he paid the same tax rate that you did, are you going to vote for Obama or Gingrich instead?

If so why,
will the fact that they missed a chance to save on their taxes make them a better president?

Of course none of these three guys can identify with the life most of us lead. They don’t live the same life style most of us do. Why should we believe that any of them know or understand what we face during our day-to-day lives, just trying to keep up?

We do want them to understand the economy of our country and what it takes to get it going and keep it going. We face a lot of problems as a country, but more than 50% of us agree that our economy is the problem we are most concerned about at this time. PollingReport.com

Doe’s your vote really depend on Romney’s tax rate?