mittster why cant you come clean with your tax info ????? just cant afford to be transparent hey ???? and just how much wealth have you made off of the backs of Americans ????? And why did you Dodge the draft of the Viet Nam War ??????? What a GOMER !!! He's Got a Case Of The Big Head !!!!!

I would'nt be surprised if they placed all that cash on a alter, then get on their knees and pray to it.

Ed We can hardly wait to here about the rich boys secrets. How rich is he and whats he hiding ?

Keep asking the hard questions Ed!

I agree with Ed. If Mr. Romney is proud of his accomplishments and wants to help other Americans to accomplish similar things, he surely can reveal his income.

Unfortunately, his stance on taxes falls in line with his superficial responses about policy. He just wants the job. Frankly, I think he just ought to go redecorate one or more of his many houses. Mon Dieu, I don't care whether he speaks French. I just want him to act like a real American patriot.

If Romney earned his money honorably and if he is sincere in wanting to help other Americans achieve success then why doesn't he come right out and tell us how he did it, how much he has earned doing this honorable work and how he is keeping his tax rate lower the average struggling Americans. Come on give! Help us all out. But sadly I think we know already. He made his money as a corporate raider. Buying up companies, raking off everything profitable including employees pension funds and then laying off (firing the employees. The word I come up with to describe his business practices is shameful, not honorable. His tax report would show he still collects millions from Bain Corporation although he claims he no longer has a connection to it.

OMG, I didn't know Santorum actually said it, I thought he just said it in a way like usual, to make the dog whistle remarks. There is no denying he said I don't want to help "black people" by giving them other peoples' money. As I recall, I do know I heard "black people" and think I wrote the rest of it correctly. ARGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

So there may be a few folks in his own church that might be receiving assistance of a variety of races, including his own. I guess now he will start paying those folks charitably so they don't have to take other peoples' money?

Santorum is horrifying but he is just one of many rich politicians. Tactics like Santorum’s have been coming from the richest 1% for years to distract masses of lower-income Americans from the egregious and outright offensive income disparity between us and the top 1%. Try to keep distracting everyone with racial differences and keep us preoccupied with that so we think that the enemies are those people against whom we are fighting. Then when that stops working, use other differences such as nation of origin including fear of immigrants, sexual orientation, union vs. non-union laborers, political ideologies. Anything to divide us all one from another and to prevent us from paying any attention to the massive income consolidation in the top 1% of our population. No matter what differences we may all have from one another, the biggest difference inevitably lies between all of us and the richest of the population.

That's the real Mitt Romney. The one you see in that picture, of him and his Bain buddies. Not the phony regular guy running around the country in his jeans and plaid shirts. He's a life long politician who is out to do what his daddy couldn't do. When John McCain was up there endorsing Mitt, I wonder if he might have been wondering which Mitt was he endorsing?I thought Mitt serve in the war. Did he dodge the draft too?

I agree that Gov. Romney should show his return.

I do however have a suggestion for you and your fellow News Show host. I'm one of those idealist that voted For the President. I think that you and you fellow host show tell us what your income was last year and what you paid in taxes. This will be an opportunity for NBC to show us all which net work is trully "fair and balanced."

I look forward to the results

Ed - I watched your show tonight for the first time and here are my thoughts on the first 10 minutes.

1. You said Mitt Romney is trying to hide how rich he is. We all know he is worth $250 million. He openly admits he is wealthy.

2. The tax chart you put up doesn't account for one MAJOR thing. The money that a tax cut will put in the pockets of wealthy individuals who own businesses and and HIRE middle class people, will be used to HIRE more people and/or raise wages for current employees. So yes, it makes sense that people who gain employment or a raise would pay more in taxes than they were previously paying because they are now making more. Common sense. But I'm sure you took that into account through your thorough, unbiased research.

3. Who cares how much Romney pays in taxes. Why is it even important? What will we do with that information anyways? However, if you're so concerned with seeing Romney's tax plan so you can copy what he did to be successful so that people can "have the same kind of success that he did," (your words) I'd like to see Obama's college transcripts and papers so that I can know where he got such brilliant ideas from so I can understand them and copy them in my own personal life. I think that would be a fair trade. Here is an article on what we learned from Obama's tax return. Please tell me how we can apply it to our lives. #dont-miss-12

4. As far as Romney's investment income getting taxed at a lower rate than typical wage earners. Again, I don't mean to be rude and correct you, but he earned that money being a typical wage earner and has already been taxed on it. The money didn't just show up in his bank account one day. He had to earn it, or he inherited it. Either scenario is a taxable event. How much are you paying on your investment income? Or do you not invest because you don't want to earn income that is being taxed at a lower rate than your less fortunate friends are paying on the income they are earning at their job? By the way, you know when an investor has faith in a company and purchases their stock, it gives that company the ability to hire people and grow their company. That usually = more revenue = more profits = higher wages & more jobs. You know what would happen if no body bought stocks...So don't you want to incentivize people who have money to invest it into a company instead of sitting in their checking account doing nothing?

5. By the way, if someone had cancer, and was looking for a doctor to cure their cancer, do you think one of their criteria would be that the doctor should have had cancer himself in the past? Romney has created tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of jobs. Obama invested $538 million dollars into Solyndra and came out with nothing. Romney invested $5 million dollars and now we have.....STAPLES. Who cares if Romney was never poor or middle class, I'm not understanding how that impacts his ability to understand economics and how to create middle class jobs. Most middle class people work for a rich guy. By the way great video from 17 yrs ago which you translated into a snapshot of who Mitt Romney is. In the words of Kobe Bryant, "that was a bikram yoga stretch."

6. Just want to remind you that Obama went to Columbia and Harvard. Very "blue liner" of him.

If you didn't sound like such a jealous grumpy old man, maybe I would watch you more often......that might be a bikram yoga stretch.

POLL QUESTION:

Does Big Eddie Pay a higher or lower tax rate than the average American.

a) more 1.2% of the vote b) less 98.8% of the vote

Another kock brother wannabe