Subject: Re: Huffington Post: Steve Rattner: Mitt Romney Used 'Every Trick In The Book' To Avoid Tax Penalties
From: "Alexander Snyder-Mackler" <[email-masked]>
To: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "Rob Walker" <[email-masked]>, "beau biden" <[email-masked]>, "Hunter Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2012 14:43:17 -0400

Call me a pessimist. I don't see him ever releasing these, unless there is
some real movement in the polls.
On Jul 22, 2012 2:12 PM, "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
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> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/steve-rattner-mitt-romney_n_1692895.html>  Steve Rattner: Mitt Romney Used 'Every Trick In The Book' To Avoid Tax
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> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/steve-rattner-mitt-romney_n_1692895.html>   WASHINGTON -- Steve Rattner, President Barack Obama's former car czar,
> weighed in on Mitt Romney's tax returns Sunday, arguing that the
> presumptive Republican nominee took advantage of an especially large number
> of loopholes. "If you say to your tax people, as he seems to have done, 'I
> want every trick in the book. I want to push this to the edge,'" Rattner
> said during an appearance on "Fareed Zakaria GPS" on CNN. "I will tell you
> that as a private equity guy, I'm familiar with many of the things that he
> did. And I know many people who have done many of the things that he did. I
> do not know anyone who did everything that he did." "Some of what he did,
> like the IRA, I have asked fellow private equity guys," Rattner said,
> referencing the account in which Romney has stored up to $100 million
> tax-free. "None of us had even known this was a possible trick, if you
> will. He has pushed the envelope all the way to the edge, to his benefit,
> and I think that Americans would find that pretty distasteful." Romney has
> declined to release multiple years' worth of tax returns, disclosing only
> those from 2010 and estimates from 2011. Rattner called Romney overly
> secretive Sunday, speculating that he was attempting to hide more instances
> of using innovative and questionable accounting tricks. Rattner, who hails
> from the world of private equity, has occasionally served as a voice of
> sympathy for Romney as his business career has come under heavy attack. His
> comments, then, carry a bit more weight than the average criticism from an
> Obama ally.
> <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/22/steve-rattner-mitt-romney_n_1692895.html>
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