{"id":23191,"date":"2012-08-04T12:42:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T09:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=23191"},"modified":"2024-02-17T13:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T10:26:47","slug":"mitt-romney-talks-about-tax-put-up-or-shut-up-23191","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/mitt-romney-talks-about-tax-put-up-or-shut-up-23191\/","title":{"rendered":"Mitt Romney talks about tax Put Up Or Shut Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has denied claims that he did not pay taxes for 10 years.<\/h1>\n

Senate majority leader Harry Reid accused Romney on the Senate floor of avoiding taxes for a decade, the strongest accusation yet by Democrats in a fight over the former private equity executive’s tax records.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Romney strongly denied Reid’s claim, saying the allegation was “simply wrong”.<\/p>\n

“I have paid taxes every year and a lot of taxes, a lot of taxes”, he told reporters during a campaign stop in Las Vegas, in Mr Reid’s home state of Nevada.<\/p>\n

Mr Romney said the sources of Mr Reid’s accusations may be within the White House or President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, which has frequently called on Romney to release more than the two years’ worth of tax information that he has made public.<\/p>\n

“By the way, Harry, I understand what you’re trying to do,” Mr Romney said.<\/p>\n

He accused Mr Reid of trying to deflect attention from discredited policies, and from the Senate’s failure to pass a budget in three years.<\/p>\n

Mr Romney did not say which types of taxes he had paid, although financial information he released in January showed he had paid an effective tax rate of 13.9% in 2010, mostly from capital gains on investments. That is far below the 35% top tax rate for wages.<\/p>\n

Mr Romney said Mr Reid should “put up or shut up”.<\/p>\n

The former Massachusetts governor’s appearance in Nevada came as he tried to regain his footing after a trip to Britain, Israel and Poland that was seen as unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

He also faced questions about the tax plan he would attempt to implement should he win election in November.<\/p>\n

He insisted that he had no intentions of increasing Americans’ tax burden.<\/p>\n

“My plan is very clear,” he said. “I will not raise taxes on the American people.”<\/p>\n

Mr Romney also refuted the notion that the richest taxpayers would benefit disproportionately from his plan.<\/p>\n

“High income people are not going to pay a smaller share of taxes in America if I am president,” he said.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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