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| We begin and go to Israel to speak with Avraham Burg, the formed Speaker of the Knesset. He has an op-ed in Sunday’s New York Times, ”Israel’s Fading Democracy”, and we discuss the portent of a war with Iran that a Romney presidency might lead to, given Romney’s recent belligerent pronouncements in Israel and his closeness to Israel’s hawkish Prime Minister. |
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Then we speak with Michael Tomasky, a special correspondent for Newsweek and the Daily Beast. He has the cover story in the current issues of Newsweek, “Mitt Romney’s Wimp Factor; A Mouse in the White House” and we discuss whether a candidate who dodges reporters, fears his base and hides his taxes, is too insecure to be president. |
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Then finally we discuss the possibility that Mitt Romney is hiding his past income taxes that he refuses to make public because he participated in an IRS 2009 tax amnesty that 35,000 wealthy Americans, who had hidden their money abroad, took advantage of. Edward Kleinbard, a Professor of Law at the University of Southern California who served as Chief of Staff of the U.S. Congress’s Joint Committee on Taxation, joins us to discuss his recent article at CNN, “Why Won’t Romney Release More Tax Returns?”. |
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| MUSIC: Jose Gonzalez - How Low; LCD Soundsystem - Time To Get Away; Titus Andronicus - Four Score and Seven; The Beatles - Taxman |
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