I was thinking today, Has Mitt Romney ever released any of his tax returns? so I googled
that question & one of the 1st stories was this one from Think progress
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2011/10/11/340682/flashback-romney-tax-return/
FLASHBACK: Romney Challenged Kennedy To Release Tax Returns — Will Romney Release His Own?
By Pat Garofalo on Oct 11, 2011 at 2:45 pm
2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has no love for the Obama administration’s proposed “Buffett rule,” which seeks to ensure that the wealthy can’t pay lower taxes than the middle-class. “Class warfare like some members of the administration want to do is simply the wrong way to go,” Romney said on Fox News.
Part of Romney’s problem in opposing the Buffett rule is that it likely applies to him. An analysis of publicly available data by Citizens for Tax Justice found that Romney’s tax rate is likely 14 percent, far below the statutory rate for someone who earns as much as he does. Seeing Romney’s full tax return could provide a more complete picture of his tax situation, but so far, he hasn’t committed to releasing it:
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Eight years later, during his successful gubernatorial campaign, Romney played the same game, calling for his Democratic opponent to release her husband’s tax returns, even when he hadn’t released his own:
He wanted Ted Kennedy's return in 1994. WTF???
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Back then, blind trusts were a "ruse" that Kennedy was using. 
