Unfazed Harry Reid Keeps Hammering Romney On Taxes

[Swede]

“Harry Reid made a statement that is true,” House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told the Huffington Post. “Somebody told him. It is a fact.”

The tactics mirror a brand of vicious, no-holds-barred campaigning that Republicans have in recent decades bested Democrats at using.

“It’s a boxer’s instinct,” Reid’s spokesman Jentleson told the New York Times. “You find your opponent’s weak spot, and until he finds a defense, you keep pounding it.”

http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/harry-reid-mitt-romney-taxes-10-years.php?ref=fpnewsfeed

[karynnj]

1. Just pondering - could no taxes relate to the multi-million dollar IRA?

Romney's income could have been all from assets in tax shelters and his Bain money that he got even after he left. What if the Bain money was given not as money but as stock of the privately held company that he - for IRA deposit purposes assigned incredibly low value - allowing him to put all of it into his IRA.

This is the only connection that I can think of where a Bain employee might have knowledge of Romney's taxes. (Not to mention, this might be that while he did not have zero taxes for any year, the Bain guy might know that he used this to evade a significant amount of taxes - and just the size of the IRA shows that he did something tricky.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. what about pension transfers? I know my husband's company pension got dissolved and they had the

option to freeze it and start an IRA from scratch...or rollover the entire pension to an IRA. could it not
be from something like that?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

3. reposting a good article about how Reid has "nothing to lose"

by being the Robme pesterer.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0812/79365.html

[COLGATE4]

4. The more interesting question is how

Rmoney winds up with a reported $100MM in his IRA account, seeing as annual contributions by individuals are supposedly limited ($6,000/yr at present)???