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Romney’s tax returns undercut GOP message

    January 25, 2012

To watch the Republican presidential debates is to enter a world where jobs are snatched away by relentless taxation, where start-up companies are stifled because investors can’t keep enough of their future profits to justify laying down money, where the Internal Revenue Service hovers over families like the grim reaper. And then comes the release of Mitt Romney’s tax returns and, it turns out, the punishing hand of the IRS is nowhere to be seen.

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