ROMNEY: Calling the kettle black

Mitt Romney says the 47 percent of Americans who support Obama “are people who pay no income tax… believe they are victims… (and) my job is not to worry about those people… I’ll never convince them they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.”

Mitt Romney is a tax free-loader who rides the wave of a rigged tax system from which he directly profits. Frankly, Mitt Romney makes orders of magnitude more money than I do, YET my income tax burden, my income tax rate, is more than TWICE as much as Mitt Romney’s.

To accuse Obama supporters, like myself, of not taking personal responsibility and care for our lives is insulting and reveals his disdain for hard-working Americans. Mitt Romney is the one who does NOT pull his own weight, does NOT pay his fair share and then has the audacity to accuse me and others of being parasites.

I challenge Mitt Romney to disclose the last 10 years of his tax returns and let the American people decide just who is the tax free-loader.

JUSTIN STORMOGIPSON, M.D.

Coeur d’Alene