RE: TAX RETURNS: What does Clinton have to hide?

[BeyondGeography]

Obama Campaign Strikes

TO: Interested Parties

FR: The Obama Campaign

RE: TAX RETURNS: What does Clinton have to hide?

DA: March 5, 2008


The Clinton campaign today maintained that “the vetting of Barack Obama has just begun.” The truth is, more than a year into this campaign, some very simple vetting of Hillary Clinton has yet to start.

In the face of her unwillingness to release her tax returns, Hillary Clinton has made the false case in this campaign that she is more electable because she has been fully vetted. When it comes to her personal finances, Senator Clinton’s refusal to release her taxes returns denies the media and the American people the opportunity to even begin that process. Though her campaign has tried to kick the issue down the road, Democratic voters deserve to know, right now, why it is she is hiding the information in her tax returns from last year.

The Clinton campaign has said that they have released copious amounts of financial information but there are many questions about their private dealings that could be answered in their tax returns but not in the information that is currently available. For example, here are eight pieces of information that could be learned from her tax returns, the accompanying schedules, and attachments:

* Effective tax rate – including whether or not any tax shelters were used to reduce it
* Amount of income for spouses by source
* Amount of stock gains and losses
* Gross income for the couple
* Amount earned from stock dividends
* Amount of household employment taxes paid
* Personal exemptions taken
* Charitable contributions made

Senator Clinton has also claimed that she is too “busy” to release her tax returns. Given the fact she is able to loan her campaign $5 million, you would think the Clintons would be able to hire an accountant. The reality is that she wants to keep this information hidden from voters. The people of Wyoming, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and the rest of the country should wonder why.

The Clintons’ record on releasing tax returns...

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/obama_campaign_strikes.php

Obama's complete 2006 return is here:

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/files/obama_2006_tax_return.pdf

[Horse with no Name]

1. Do you all have some weird in-concert plan for someone to post this every hour today?

:rofl:

[BeyondGeography]

2. Don't worry, it's just for the next seven weeks

:rofl:

[Horse with no Name]

3. Whatever.

I guess any old port in a storm.
Maybe you can get some pics of Monica's blue dress and drag it around a little too? Just to mix it up?:hi:

[BeyondGeography]

5. I'm a little strange...the Clinton Foundation donor list is far more exciting to me

:hi:

[jefferson_dem]

4. Scumbag Wolfson keeps saying she will release them "on or around" April 15.

That is exactly one week BEFORE the PA primary.

Bwhahahahahaha...

This shit is just heating up.

[DrFunkenstein]

6. Who Is Denice Rich and Why Has She Given Clinton Mega-Cash?

What other "gifts" are we going to find when the Clintons open up their financial information in the middle of the general election?

And Bill Clinton talks about rolling the dice...