{"id":16714,"date":"2012-08-03T08:56:15","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T07:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=16714"},"modified":"2012-08-03T08:56:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T07:56:15","slug":"a-desire-for-the-truth-is-not-mccarthyism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/08\/03\/a-desire-for-the-truth-is-not-mccarthyism\/","title":{"rendered":"A desire for the truth is not McCarthyism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/romney-spokesperson-compares-demand-for-mitt-to-reveal-taxes-to-mccarthyism\" target=\"_blank\">curious to note this US report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Speaking in the safe havens of Fox News Thursday morning (Aug. 2), Romney spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom compared Senate Majority Leader\u00a0Harry Reid's attempt to embarrass Romney into releasing his\u00a0tax returns\u00a0to \"McCarthyism.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, I think you've got that wrong there, sir. McCarthyism was about what were almost entirely \u00a0fabricated\u00a0allegations. This is about asking Romney to clear up the potentially false allegations that first he paid not tax for ten years and second had to use the 2009 tax amnesty to\u00a0regularise his offshore tax affairs by making late\u00a0declaration of what had been tax evasion.<\/p>\n<p>Now those accusations could of course be entirely unjustified. But given that we know Romney\u00a0had\u00a0extensive offshore interests and\u00a0given we know he had a tax rate of 15% in 2010 both have that element of something called plausibility which very\u00a0little\u00a0had in the McCarthy era.<\/p>\n<p>So I think it's pretty fair of the US people to want to know the answers to the questions. After all, who wants a tax cheat in the White House?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was curious to note this US report: Speaking in the safe havens of Fox News Thursday morning (Aug. 2), Romney spokesman Eric Ferhnstrom compared<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/08\/03\/a-desire-for-the-truth-is-not-mccarthyism\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}