January 23rd, Mitt said: "I pay all the taxes that are legally required and not a dollar more.
I don’t think you want someone as the candidate for president who pays more taxes than he owes."
And in August, he said "I did go back and look at my taxes, and over the past 10 years, I never paid less than 13 percent."
This is interesting, because thanks to our wonderful tax code, all he owed for the 2011 tax year was 12.2% of his income. What did he do? He gave the IRS an extra quarter of a million dollars he didn't need so much, so as to be consistent with one of the things he said rather than the other.
The couple chose to deduct only $2.25 million of their charitable contributions. The reason was "to conform" to Romney's statement last month that he never paid less than 13% in income taxes over the past 10 years, Brad Malt, a lawyer who presides over the Romneys' blind trust, said in a statement.
So, according to Romney, he's not the sort of person you want as candidate for President. Well, Mitt, you nailed that one. Though I'm still not sure that you understand the reason. It's actually because you're a giant douche.
Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.