Romney Ducks Tax Questions With Foreign Trip

As questions continue to swirl around Mitt Romney’s failure to release his income tax returns, the candidate will take a leisurely tour of Europe.

Romney is slated to visit the Olympic games in London, watching athletic events instead of explaining why he kept money in offshore accounts and escaped U.S. taxes. Romney also plans to meet leaders in Israel, Great Britain, and Poland — rather than come clean about what role he played in outsourcing jobs at Bain Capital.

By contrast, when he was a candidate in 2008, President Obama visited American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan during his foreign policy tour. And as he has already done this year, Obama released multiple years of his tax returns.