2016 Postmortem
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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 Trumps 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 husbands 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 Clintons 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.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)"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)How does someone "pretend" to disclose his or her tax returns? Something is not quite right with this article.
basselope
(2,565 posts)A 1040 isn't just a "summary"
Sometimes there are additional calculating pages, but the 1040 is the official form.
Zira
(1,054 posts)Google:
bernie sanders tax return 2015
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders
2014
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Why is it in the caribbean? What are they hiding there?
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)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)A lot of "nominee" directors and bank accounts in Cyprus, Isle of Man and Western Samoa.
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)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