Don’t make Mormon Jesus cry.
So now Mormon Jesus is Mitt Romney’s new tax return deflection shield:
“Our church doesn’t publish how much people have given,” Romney tells Parade magazine in an edition due out Sunday. “This is done entirely privately. One of the downsides of releasing one’s financial information is that this is now all public, but we had never intended our contributions to be known. It’s a very personal thing between ourselves and our commitment to our God and to our church.“
In response, ABL says it best:
You know what, asshole? If you didn’t intend for your contributions to be known, you shouldn’t have run for president.
And by the way? You can’t send your wife out to talk about how super awesome and honest you are, and have her gush about how you give ten percent of your income to the LDS Church and then two weeks later claim that you want to keep the amount you donate to the church private because of Jesus.
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THE GRAPEVINE
So, Mitt saying his daddy wasn’t a good Mormon? I mean, old George published his returns. Invented the practice, in fact. Sure, rebelling against old Eddie Puss is fine, but if the problem with publishing the returns is a Mormon problem — well, really!
Funny thing, anyway: publishing your tax return does not mean publishing where you gave your money. Itemizing your deductions means you can report the total of your contributions and deduct that amount — but try looking on Schedule A for the place where you list what they were. Don’t be downhearted if you don’t find it.
So, say he’s worth 300 mil, the usual guess. Let’s insult his capitalist abilities and say he’s making only 6 times the yield of 30-year T bonds; this would be about 15%. 45 mil. Now if he reports 4.5 mil contributions, who’s to say whether that’s his LDS tithe, or he’s giving it all to a home for unwed mothers?
Maybe he gives more than 10%! Maybe that’s his guilty secret: he’s selling all that he hath and giving it to the poor, and a politician couldn’t survive if it got out that he acts like a Christian. Not in the GOP anyway.