How much Mit payed in taxes seems like a pretty interesting question to me. He is running on a platfrom to get america back to work. This is supposed to be done by removing the barriers to the 'producers' that is the 'rich' to get things done. This means lowering taxes, removing pesky regulation, beating down those ugly unions, and generaly putting more wealth and power into the hands of captial at the expense of workers (if the rich pay less taxes the middle class ends up bearing a greater percentage of the cost of running the government).

If Mit has already payed a way lower tax rate then you or I, and he and his friends stand to significantly benefit in even lower taxes and regulation as a result of his proposed policies this is pretty interesting. Mitt is probably the richest man to ever run for president (not sure how much old Ross was worth). If the richest man to ever run for president pays way less then a working man and has promised to make sure he pays less then maybe that is something that voters might like to know about.