Taxes, Taxes, Taxes.....

[citizen blues]

Knowing that the Democratic House was going to go after Trump's tax returns, only four among the wide field of candidates were proactively transparent with their own taxes:

KIRSTEN GILLIBRAND

Has she released them this cycle? Yes.

How many years’ worth? 12.

Gillibrand was the first candidate to share her 2018 tax returns. In a video accompanying the release, she took a swipe at the sitting president as she touched on themes of accountability and transparency. “I want voters to know I’m beholden to no one, that my values are not for sale, and that I’m working only for you,” Gillibrand said.

Gillibrand has made releasing her tax documents a habit since 2012, when she first shared records dating back to 2007, the first year she held elected federal office.


JAY INSLEE

Has he released them this cycle? Yes.

How many years worth? 12.

The Washington governor dropped his returns—including his 2018 ones—at the end of March. Inslee has previously disclosed five years’ worth of returns during his first run for governor in 2012 and the following three years’ worth during his 2016 reelection campaign.

He has also voiced support for a bill pending in his home state that would keep any presidential candidate who does not release tax returns off the state’s ballot.


AMY KLOBUCHAR

Has she released them this cycle? Yes.

How many years’ worth? 12.

Like Gillibrand and Inslee, Klobuchar disclosed her tax documents under the banner of openness, saying “transparency and accountability are fundamental to good governance.” The Minnesota senator has yet to release her 2018 records, but when she does so, she’ll have released more years’ worth of returns than any of her competitors. Her posted documents date back to when she was first elected to the US Senate in 2006.


ELIZABETH WARREN

Has she released them this cycle? Yes.

How many years’ worth? 11.

Few have been as constant a critic of President Trump’s reluctance to share his taxes as Warren, who has made combatting political corruption one of her signature issues. Even her controversial release of a DNA test intended to prove her Native American ancestry—an assertion President Trump chided her for with the nickname “Pocahontas”—was apparently in service of seeking the president’s taxes: