Paul Ryan Says He'll Release 2 Years of Taxes

being rich or wanting money is not a bad thing...it's a matter of honesty and how you get it...

When did these guys start to think they are supposta tell the people instead of listening to them?

Our political system has become a circus!

One thing is for sure, WE all need to get out of the left/ right, Dem vs Repub monkey show paradigm. They both have put us here in this mess. We need to change our way of thinking, shut off the TV and think for ourselves and retain our our logic that DC is the problem, not We The People.

Since he has always been in government never held a job in the private sector, and he says he came from the middle class, I would like to see how much he is worth and when he started making his money and how. It will give us an inside look at Congress and why we need Congressional reforms.

Tax returns are a distraction? Really? You mean like asking a sitting president to show his birth certificate or explain what church he goes too or socializes with at parties? I think knowing the financial interests and sources of income for presidential candidates are pretty darn important. If you don't have anything to hide, why hide it?

As a percentage, EVERY working stiff in America paid at least ten times what Mitt paid for Medicare and Social Security tax. As for Federal tax... almost all of us who earned in excess of 100,000 paid a higher percent than Mitt. It is time for change... a big change to the tax structure!

What we know is this; our country has been looted and it's pretty obvious who did the looting.

I guess the whole point of a campaign is to reveal as little as possible about a candidate while speaking in easily digestible soundbites and applause lines. This is just further deterioration of our political process and really bad news for Americans.

If I wanted a gov job, there'd be a full background check...FULL I SAY...
Why aren't presidents checked out in FULL???

Why are we letting the candidates decide what they will do? Are we not interviewing them for the job? Do we tell prospective employers what we will offer? who the h eii are these guys?

Voters are concerned about the integrity of the people they elect. They determine the direction of the economy and people who are deceptive are usually not used to acting for the good of everyone.

Why put a tax evader in charge of Fort Knox?

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Mr ryan you have been on the government payroll 13 years and only authored 2 bills....why???

what do you do to justify your salary??

what gade do you think the american people should give you even thoigh you work less than 100 days a year??

So buying a house involves greater personal scrutiny than running for the 2 most important positions in the country?

Actually.. the Romney campaign has really served a good purpose... it has shown us the the top 1% pay far less tax as a percent, than us "little people". Apparently Leona Helmsley was telling the truth when she said "Taxes are for the little people"

We need to take corporate money out of politics. The corporations have conquered us by dividing us into two camps, Right and Left while most Americans are centrist.

all these clowns should release all tax returns since the day they became so called public servants

When Americans become willing to look in the mirror and face the truth, that is, that our government is every bit as corrupt, incompetent and self-serving as every other nation on the planet, that we are not morally superior to anybody else, and that the only thing different here than 3rd world nations is we haven't yet had a military overthrow of government....then and only then, will real change begin to occur. There's been a lot of talk the last few years about companies that are "too big to fail" yet the largest "company" in the country, the federal government, has been allowed to become just that! If the government were a private sector entity, it would be looking at bailouts or bankruptcy right now. And NOBODY has the desire, ability or intestinal fortitude to actually begin the process of changing it. They talk about waste and fraud yet it continues. They talk about reform of any number of things yet all the changes that get made do nothing to actually change the fundamental problems. Agencies, commissions, boards, committees, etc etc piled on top of each other with no efficiency, no accountability, and no direction. Homeland Security was supposed to fix many of these types of problems that existed in the various defense and law enforcement agencies. All DHS has done is expand the defense industry to the benefit of private contractors in the pockets of the politicians. Absent the violence, our system at this moment is no better than Iraq, Egypt, or many other countries. We have a populus that is divided into many different camps and which has become more hostile toward one another than at any time in our history. People relations weren't even this bad during the civil rights movement. Never has there been a time when Americans were so outwardly hostile toward their elected leader no matter the circumstances...not the Carter admin, the Nixon admin, not even the Hoover admin...when did it become okay to accuse the POTUS of being a terrorist? John McCain told Palin at the end of the last campaign that she would be a flag bearer for the party but to be careful and wise because the extremist faction was out of control and in process of destroying the GOP if allowed to continue unabated. McCain didn't get much right in that campaign but he was dead on about that one. No matter if one agrees with the policies or not, when the Democratic party is the voice of reason in this country, something has dramatically changed and not for the better. The ugliness is out there but I promise you the next 3 months will be like nothing ever seen before in America. Romney hasn't even begun to get dirty yet and with his war chest and the extremism among the GOP base, nothing will be off limits. The Democrats have tried to strike early with the negatives but they too have plenty of powder left. And what will all of that change? Nothing. It's time for Americans to understand that this election is about THEM, not Obama, not Romney, not the GOP or the Tea Party, or the Dems. It's about the 80% of us who still have some reason in our brains, some faith in our hearts, and some fortitude in our guts. There are real issues that need real solutions. Those solutions aren't complicated no matter what politicians want us to believe. Everybody can't have everything their way but everybody CAN have solutions that benefit the greater good. The GOP in particular loves to quote Reagan but they forget the words of Kennedy "ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country." Isn't it time we ALL ask ourselves that great question?????