This is just a little diary, with some thoughts that came to me late last night.
What if the reason Mitt is so reluctant to release his tax returns is religious. What if he has been tithing to the LDS every year. What if the church were to see the documents and discover a less than "faithful" discrepancy in the amount tithed?
Mitt looks really nervous when he talks about tax documentation It occurs to me that the anxiety is not just caused by the public knowing his enormous income from investing; we already know that! But he also might have some other reason for his unwillingness to release tax documentation, especially from prior to running for election.
(It would be better for me if I could sleep through the night; do Newt Gingritch and Ron Paul collect Social Security benefits? Will I collect them?)
When my panic-filled husband told me we were going to be audited one year, I said "So?". He was nearly crying, "The IRS is going to audit us!!. I said "We don't cheat on our taxes." "We don't?!?" he cried. I replied "No, we don't. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night."
I am sure I'm not the only one who worries about taxes in the middle of the night, and after this election is over I can stop worrying about other people's tax issues and get some sleep.