FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in Colorado Springs, Colo. Democrats are growing increasingly confident that a two-pronged tax attack on Republican Mitt Romney _ one part policy, one part politics _ could help President Barack Obama lure pivotal support from middle class voters _ and win a second term. Led by Obama, the Democrats are going after Romney for seeking to protect tax cuts for the wealthy and refusing to release more information on the taxes he pays on his multi-million dollar personal fortune. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)
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Jay Atkinson writes that President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden ought to provide their tax returns going back 10 years in order to have Mitt Romney do the same (Readers' Forum, Aug. 22). Atkinson was probably unaware that the president has provided his tax returns going back to 2000, and the vice president to 1998. These are publicly available for viewing at www.taxhistory.org by clicking on the "Presidential Tax Returns" link on the left.
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Red Headed Stranger,
Mitt Romney is the only presidential candidate in history to have a Swiss bank account and Cayman Island tax shelters. You don't find that odd?
The last time Romney asked that people "take his word More..
I had someone say the same thing to me, that the Administration Democrats should release theirs. Uh, they have. Easily available. Before people take their cheap shots, they should be better informed, putting it politely.
It's not wonder why so many from the right still believe that Obama is a Nazy/Communist Muslim born from a different country. This letter proves that they just aren't listening (to anything other than Fox) and aren't using less agenda More..