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RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 03:46 PM Apr 2016

Why Hasn’t Bernie Sanders Released His Tax Returns? (Or Cruz Or Kasich, Either…)

Is this an acceptable site?? I'm not sure, so you guys let me know

http://www.nationalmemo.com/why-hasnt-bernie-sanders-released-his-tax-returns/

Bernie Sanders holds himself out to huge and adoring crowds as a model of personal, political and financial integrity. But when it comes to revealing his income tax returns, Sanders is as tricky a politician as Republicans Ted Cruz and John Kasich.

In this bizarre political year, Donald Trump has shown more candor than Sanders when it comes to his tax returns. That is an amazing and disturbing feat, given Trump’s penchant for exaggeration and just making stuff up, as I have been documenting since 1988. Understand that while Trump has fabricated an excuse for not disclosing any of his income tax returns, he was being more forthright than Sanders, who tries to pretend that he has disclosed his taxes.

What may surprise some is that of the five remaining Presidential candidates, only Hillary Clinton has been completely candid and forthright about her and her husband’s income tax returns, a policy of theirs that dates at least to 1992. Despite her singular transparency, news organizations routinely write, without citing any verifiable supporting facts, about Clinton’s perceived mendacity.

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The question to ask Sanders – as well as Cruz, Kasich, and Trump – is why they are hiding the information they supplied under penalty of perjury to the IRS as a true, complete, and accurate description of their income, deductions, and taxes.

And whatever you may think of Hillary Clinton, she deserves real props for more than two decades of being forthright and complete in disclosing her tax returns.

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Why Hasn’t Bernie Sanders Released His Tax Returns? (Or Cruz Or Kasich, Either…) (Original Post) RockaFowler Apr 2016 OP
I'd question the source just because it was easy to find where... Pacifist Patriot Apr 2016 #1
I think there may be more to this story. HassleCat Apr 2016 #2
The story is wrong. basselope Apr 2016 #3
He released his. Zira Apr 2016 #4
Not according to Tax History.org RockaFowler Apr 2016 #7
I'm more interested in Jane Sanders' Caribbean foundation cosmicone Apr 2016 #5
Conspiracy? noretreatnosurrender Apr 2016 #6
It is off limits to research cosmicone Apr 2016 #8
The story has been updated DesertRat Apr 2016 #9

Pacifist Patriot

(24,654 posts)
1. I'd question the source just because it was easy to find where...
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 03:49 PM
Apr 2016

"Sanders, who has been rising in the polls in his bid for the Democratic nomination against Hillary Rodham Clinton, voluntarily released the first few pages of his 2014 federal and Vermont tax returns Tuesday at the request of The Washington Post."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/06/30/on-tax-returns-sanders-and-wife-report-200000-in-income-mostly-from-his-senate-post/

The article is from last year, but I can't imagine if he was that responsive last year there is anything that is necessarily being hidden.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
2. I think there may be more to this story.
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 03:50 PM
Apr 2016

How does someone "pretend" to disclose his or her tax returns? Something is not quite right with this article.

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
5. I'm more interested in Jane Sanders' Caribbean foundation
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 03:59 PM
Apr 2016

Why is it in the caribbean? What are they hiding there?

noretreatnosurrender

(1,890 posts)
6. Conspiracy?
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 04:08 PM
Apr 2016

But I thought Sanders supporters were the "conspiracy" people? Seeing as how you are interested in this subject I hope you will research it and bring back your findings to share with the rest of us.

 

cosmicone

(11,014 posts)
8. It is off limits to research
Fri Apr 1, 2016, 04:11 PM
Apr 2016

A lot of "nominee" directors and bank accounts in Cyprus, Isle of Man and Western Samoa.

DesertRat

(27,995 posts)
9. The story has been updated
Sun Apr 3, 2016, 04:34 PM
Apr 2016
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1638664

Also, you asked if the source was reputable. I trust him, but that's for you to decide.
David Cay Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
Here's his author page on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/David-Cay-Johnston/e/B001KDG3PW
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