Thursday, August 16, 2012

Romney claims he's never paid less than 13% in taxes

Via BuzzFeed, here's Mitt Romney today during a Q & A with reporters, surprisingly changing the conversation at a time when it was going just swimmingly for him.

"I did go back and look at my taxes, and over the past ten years, I never paid less than 13%.

In the most recent year, it was 13.6% or something like that. Pay taxes every single year. Harry Reid's charge is totally false."

This will hijack headlines for a few cycles, and put Romney squarely in the defensive again, as Democrats trot out that 13% number, which face it, isn't a great political number for Romney.

In fact, some have even called 13 "unlucky".