Undervaluing assets is a common form of tax evasion
You guys took your usual tortuous path to a simple question: Did Romney build an IRA to ridiculous levels by putting assets into it with a fraudulently low valuation?
If Mitt obeyed the law just like the rest of us, why did his IRA grow by a factor of 10,000%? Why doesn't everyone who invests $60,000 over ten years end up with close to $100 million?
There simply is no way to spin this that doesn't look bad for Mitt.
Or for the wealthy in general. It reinforces the belief that once you pass a certain threshold of wealth, you join the club and and gain a Midas touch, and from then on everything you touch automatically turns to gold, regardless of effort or merit. That the rich get richer simply because they're already rich.