I’m still trying to figure out what is ‘missing’.
He released 23 years of tax returns in 2008 when he was being vetted as a possible VP candidate.
His website has the 2010 and 2011 returns.
That leaves a year or two not there possibly.
Non-issue.
He's since published a broadside on his 2010 return, and a preliminary estimation on 2011. 2012 is, of course, a work in progress, as was 2008.
What you have to do is look at the first 3 years, and then the next 7 years, and you'd see he did not publish his returns for the years he probably suffered intense losses ~ just like the rest of us ~ to wit; 2007 and 2008!
Note, folks with 401(k) accounts probably noted the losses but they didn't have to pay taxes on them anyway!
If Romney followed the law and took every deduction available he got several million bucks back from the US Government for taxes paid in 2004, 2005 and 2006, and claimed some losses in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and is going to claim some losses 2012 and 2013.
HIs problem consists of large dollar value REFUNDS and non payment of taxes at a high rate during periods when millions were losing their homes and retirement savings.
Although what he did was lawful, it will not set well ~ which is why he doesn't want to let you know about it.
The fault is in the tax code.
That was only to McCain's people. And McCain didn't select him (or perhaps he wisely refused McCain, not wanting to go down with a loser). So, those 23 years of returns don't really prove anything one way or the other.
McCain's say-so that there was nothing disqualifying in those returns is not going to make the controversy go away. Actually releasing those returns would obviously end the controversy. But it would also give the Donks and the MSM a long list of trivial diversionary talking points, starting with the magnitude of the numbers and extending to who knows what else.