Romney Will Not Release Tax Returns

Steve Benen sums up why Mitt Romney — unlike every presidential candidate since Watergate — won’t release his tax returns:

1. Mitt Romney is worth $250 million.
2. He got rich by laying off American workers.
3. He pays a lower tax rate than you and the rest of the middle class.
4. He wants to be president so he can keep it this way.

…and Romney still collects seven-figure checks from his vulture-capitalist firm, [and] he’s paying less in taxes than middle-class families nationwide.