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Durbin: Romney needs to release tax returns - CBS News
DNC head calls Romney to release more tax returns detailing offshore holdings - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
So - if we are SO insistent on transparency from Obama, why not expect the same from Romney.
(CBS News) On "Face the Nation," Senator Richard Durbin, D-Ill., challenged the presumptive Republican nominee for president to be more transparent with his finances, including releasing more years of his tax returns.
"Mitt Romney has failed to make an economic disclosure that every president and candidate for president has made in the last 36 years. It goes back to his father, who disclosed 12 years of tax returns - he disclosed one," Durbin said.
Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate, also referenced a new article in Vanity Fair that provided insight into Romney's offshore bank accounts in the Cayman Islands, Bermuda and Switzerland - countries popular among the wealthy for secrecy and tax protections.
The Senator suggested that Romney's offshore accounts reflected either duplicity or a lack or faith in the U.S. dollar: "You either get a Swiss bank account to conceal what you are doing, or you believe the Swiss franc is stronger than the American dollar," he said.
DNC head calls Romney to release more tax returns detailing offshore holdings - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room
George Romney, Mitts father and a onetime Michigan governor, released 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in the 1960s. President Obama has also released tax returns dating back to 2000.
So - if we are SO insistent on transparency from Obama, why not expect the same from Romney.