Harry Reid Not Satisfied by Romney Tax Dump

Harry Reid. Photo: Allison Shelley/Getty Images

Though twenty years of Romney tax summaries released and vouched for by PricewaterhouseCoopers today would seem to indicate that Harry Reid and his mystery source were incorrect about Romney's alleged failure to pay any income taxes for an entire decade ("Over the entire 20-year period, the lowest annual effective federal personal tax rate was 13.66%"), Reid has declined to admit that he made the whole thing up for kicks/was duped by a prank caller. Quite the contrary:


It's true: Romney still hasn't released any tax returns from earlier than 2010, presumably because there is something in there he doesn't want the public to see. But from what has been released, we now know that Reid's accusation, at least, was wrong. Admitting that would also be a sign of character.