Thanks to Mitt Romney, we have an incentive to think more fully about taxes. Here’s a collection of journalists and bloggers that are helping us fill in the gaps, finished off with some video and opinion
Marketplace:
The numbers behind Mitt Romney’s 47% (few numbers, but has the sound clip)
The 47% who don’t pay federal income tax include middle class, poor, retirees
Income tax or not, we can never fully avoid the tax bite (mentions sales tax)
NYTimes
Yes, 47% of Households Owe No Taxes. Look Closer. (thorough coverage)
Much of Romney’s View Conflicts With G.O.P. Stand (graphics, too)
via Mark Thoma, The Economist’s View
The Truth about Taxes: Just About Everyone Pays (useful graphics)
Wall Street Journal (you’ll have to get through the paywall)
Raw Data Support—and Undercut— Romney Take (excellent trio of pie charts)
New Scrutiny for Mitt Romney on Mideast (not just Mideast, many links & quotes)
Straying from the numbers now and into context: goofs others have made
Video Blunders: From Palin to Perry to Obama
Some opinion of Romney’s choices and what they mean
Thurston Howell Romney (David Brooks, NYTimes)
Time for an Intervention (Peggy Noonan, WSJ)