This is the issue that just won’t seem to die (in no small part due to Harry Reid), and so Mitt Romney directly addressed his tax returns in a press conference today, per ABC News:

“I just have to say given the challenges that America faces 23 million people out of work, Iran about to become nuclear, one out of six Americans in poverty, the fascination with taxes I paid I find to be very small minded compared to the broad issues we face,” he said. “But I did go back and look at my taxes and over the past 10 years I never paid less than 13 percent. I think the most recent year is 13.6 or something like that,” said Romney today during a press conference on a tarmac in South Carolina, where the candidate came to attend a fundraiser.

It’s unlikely this will be enough to silence Democrats, who will likely speculate that if Romney won’t release the tax returns and he has paid taxes, it just must be something else he’s hiding that he’s trying to prevent people from finding out about.