Earlier this week Mitt Romney announced that he has never paid less than 13 percent on his tax returns, while insisting again that he will not be releasing anything more than what he has already produced — one year of returns for 2010, with a promise to release his full 2011 returns sometime soon.
So that should have ended this debate, which the presidential candidate and his supporters appear baffled is still an issue in the news. But is it still an issue, a week before the Republicans nominate Romney in Tampa to be their presidential standard-bearer this fall?
As the surrogates for the Romney and Obama camps crowded the Sunday morning public affairs shows, the issue of the former Massachusetts governor's tax returns were again referenced, in between discussions on Medicare, whether Joe Biden made a racially coded comment last week on the campaign trail, and whether the rhetoric coming from the Democrats is just too divisive.
But it was up to Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace to ask Romney senior adviser Ed Gillespie when in fact the country will get the chance to see more of Romney's returns. Romney to date has released only his 2010 returns, along with an estimate for 2011.
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This article appears in Aug 16-22, 2012.