Mitt Romney finally got around to making his taxes public, and there's not much there that we didn't already know. He has a 14% average tax rate; considering that capital gains go at 15% and he can have his taxable income knocked down via donations, that's par for the course.
The news to me is that he walks the Mormon walk, giving $2.6M of his $21.7M in income to the church. That's impressive to me. While I have severe problems with Mormon theology, Mormon day-to-day praxis is largely on line with orthodox Christan teaching.
Is a reasonably devout Mormon a better bet as president than a less-devout Catholic? That's the decision going through my mind as we come up on the Michigan primary next month. I like Newt on policy (and Santorum even more so, but he has some ground to make up if he is to be in the mix in a winner-take-all vote), but we can do far worse as a president than a Harvard MBA hotshot and devout Mormon.
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