Eddie Scarry
The Blaze
7/3/2012
There’s a four-page investigation running in Vanity Fair on the most tired subject of the presidential race: Mitt Romney‘s money how private he is about it.
What we learn from the lengthy piece: Nothing, really. Except that having offshore accounts and taking advantage of tax loopholes:
- “…kind of looks tacky.”
- “…would raise red flags…”
- “…this stuff is weird.”
Other no-calorie phrases from the story:
- “…the Romney campaign insists he saves no tax by using them, but there is no way to check this.”
- “…the young Romney…was willing to push into gray areas when it came to business.”
- “…we cannot know how he did it.”
- “Mysteries also arise when one looks at Romney’s individual retirement account at Bain Capital.”
Whole thing here if you have time to waste.
Related: Oh Brother… Obama Bashes Romney For Swiss Bank Account Days After Swiss Fundraiser Announcement
Update: Obama campaign rejects Factcheck.org report defending Romney
…The Obama letter was prompted by Factcheck’s June 29 report slamming Obama’s TV-ads for portraying Romney as a job-exporter.
“One [Obama] TV ad, called ‘Come and Go,’ claims that Romney ‘shipped jobs to China and Mexico,’” said the Factcheck report.
But “the claims in the [Obama] ads are untrue, and others are thinly supported,” said Factcheck, which is a liberal-leaning site established by the Annenberg Public Policy Center…
