You Make Less, Pay More

RIVERHEAD, New York — Mitt Romney’s campaign released the latest two years of tax returns for Paul Ryan, showing his running mate paid a 15.9 percent tax rate in 2010.

First of all, both of these people are only releasing one or two years worth of returns. In the case of Romney at least, those years likely represent the least offensive or illegal returns.  But even if they are representative, there is just something wrong with electing people who will make the rules to ensure they pay way less than half of what the rest of us pay.  Even more damaging to the country of course, is that they make the rules to ensure their political backers pay nothing.  All of which leaves the middle class to pick up the tab.