Dispute between Romney and Santorumm

Posted by Kayla Phantom On Tuesday, January 17th 2012 in Politics

His rivals keep pressing him to make his tax returns public. In an attempt to answer them, Mitt Romney stated during a Republican presidential candidates debate that took place last night that he will "probably" give that information in April. He added that he wished to follow the tradition of former nominees who also released their tax returns in April.

"I have nothing in them that suggests there is any problem," he said. "I'm happy to do so."

Romney added that he does not feel it is necessary to do more than the law requires of him.

"My income tax have been out every year. Newt [Gingrich], I think you will let your income tax come out Thursday. And Mitt, we need for you to release your income tax so the people of this country can see how you made your money," the Texas governor said. "Here's the real issue for us as Republicans. We cannot fire our nominee in September. We need to know now."

The other candidates attacked Romney’s leadership at Bain Capital and pressured him to reveal his tax returns. The most critical rival was perhaps Rick Santorumm who accused him of not standing up to the super PACs

"If you felt so impassionedly about it that you're going to go out there and have someone criticize me," the former senator said in an exchange, "then why didn't you try to change that when you were governor of Massachusetts?"

When Romney dismissed the super PACs, the former senator stated: "I would say stop it."