The Lie of Modern "Centrism"

[TaraJo]

Obamas Birth certificate and Romney's tax returns are irrelevant

When you examine the reality behind the birth certificate questions, it actually weakens the general idea behind 'state's rights.' The reality is, issuing birth certificates is something that's handled at a state level and there is no uniform way all 50 states do their birth certificates. That being said, someone who lives in New York can say "birth certificates have to have this feature and, *gasp* Obama's bc doesn't have it!" the reality is, New York birth certificates might need that but Hawaii birth certificates don't. If you wanted it to be easier for people to spot a fraud birth certificate from any state, fine, I don't mind, but it means we'd have to give up some of those 'state's rights' and have the federal government step in and have uniform standards that all birth certificates have to go by.

As far as Romney's tax records go, I don't see them as being a real issue, but I think there might be more behind his hiding them than most people would think. It might be about his church. To keep his temple recommend, he has to be an upstanding member of the LDS church and part of doing that is tithing 10% of his income. If he's been using tax loopholes to hide his income from the government, whose to say he's not using them to hide his income from his church as well? It even puts the LDS church in a tough spot if he is tithing less than 10%; they can't revoke his temple recommend but still endorse him for president, but they also don't want to let people think he's getting preferential treatment or that it's ok to not tithe their full 10%.