Obama needs to release his tax returns NOW

[Clintonista2]

As some of you may know, Obama refuses to release his tax returns from his years in the Illinois senate, despite repeated calls for him to release them. What is Obama trying to hide?

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/04/clinton_hits_ba.html

[Waya]

1. Why?

He released the last seven years, that not enough?

[Clintonista2]

3. Why won't he release his returns from the years in which he was in public life?

Could it be because he accepted contributions from corporations and lobbyists while in office?

[anonymous171]

12. lol. Clinton doesn't count his state senate experience as "experience" so he doesn't have to

release anything.

[bunnies]

40. Contributions would be on his personal tax returns?

:shrug:

[racaulk]

2. Has Hillary released hers yet?

:shrug:

[Clintonista2]

4. Yes she has

[racaulk]

11. Sorry, I must have missed that.

Do you have a link?

On edit, nevermind. I see it linked from your OP link now. Thanks! :hi:

[my3boyz]

5. Hillary needs to release the donors for the Clinton library NOW. nt

[Clintonista2]

7. Deflect?

[LisaM]

53. Why? It's not HER library.

It's Bill's.

[CreekDog]

6. which years from his Illinois Senate haven't been released?

[Clintonista2]

9. 1997, 1998, 1999

[CreekDog]

10. 9 years ago? is he required to have them back that far?

[Clintonista2]

13. He was a member of public life wasn't he?

Don't you think it's important to see who has contributed to Obama in the past? To see which corporations/lobbyists he has accepted contributions from?

[CreekDog]

18. are political contributions listed in tax returns?

[Clintonista2]

20. Who said anything about the contributions being political?

That's why he needs to release this info right away.

[CreekDog]

26. you said you wanted to know who has contributed to him in the past

do you mean his income is a contribution?

[Clintonista2]

28. We need to see where mr.Obama made his money while in office

[CreekDog]

29. because you are looking to see if his income sources are the same as political contributors

[Clintonista2]

31. Absolutely

[CreekDog]

32. did you see that in records back to 2000?

[Clintonista2]

34. Obama changed his message as soon as he decided he would run for prez

What's so disagreeable about this? I fail to understand why there's so much resistance? Why not simply release the tax returns, and put all of this to rest? And why are you, as a supporter, so keen to not have him release them?

[CreekDog]

36. i don't have any resistance to it

if he has them you can ask him to release them, but many people don't have tax records going back 12 years, even people in public life. he certainly didn't live like he had any more income than his leglistative and lecturer salaries provided.

[Clintonista2]

37. Then he needs to say that he no longer has a copy

Instead of flat out refusing to release them.

[CreekDog]

41. we'll see what happens

[Waya]

27. 7 years is all that's required by the IRS........

............good enough for me.....

[susankh4]

8. Yeah. Where is the transparency?

[durrrty libby]

14. He has conveniently lost his state senate papers via "messy desk" syndrome

So his tax papers are probably in the same trash bin(shredder)

[mod mom]

15. "But Clinton's camp is more interested in those from the late 1990s" WTF the man wasn't even able

to pay off his student loans until a recent book deal-he must have been swimming in cash. :eyes:

[anonymous171]

19. Bittergate has backfired and now they need to deflect.

[book_worm]

16. it took Hillary long enough...hmm, I don't recall you demanding her to release her returns.

I wonder why?

[BlooInBloo]

17. Mmmm... more manufactroversy.

[GDAEx2]

49. LMAO!!!

Bloo said "manufactroversy"!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

51. :) I stole it from someone else who posted coupla days ago - it's a good'un tho.

[Lucky 13]

21. Honest question

Having done my taxes this past week, I was reminded that the IRS only asks you to keep your tax returns for 3 years.

If I had to produce tax returns from 7 years ago, I definitely would not be able to.

Is it POSSIBLE he doesn't have them? If so, does the IRS keep documents going that far back that he could request copies from?

I honestly just don't know how it works...

[CakeGrrl]

22. Why does he have to go back to the 90s? Clinton only released the last 7 years

Who's making this demand?

If the Clinton campaign wants those returns, they'd better cough up their returns for the same years. I'm sure they'll have NO problem with that, right? Nothing during the WJC administration to hide, right?

[Clintonista2]

23. Wrong. The Clinton's tax returns were released while Bill was prez

[CakeGrrl]

33. Ah, true. So basically HRC is scraping for any remnants of the kitchen sink

Because they never know what they'll find!

"By gawd, if we didn't find something in that kindergarten paper and if we couldn't twist an illicitly-taped quote to drop his poll numbers, then THIS should do it!"

Someone - Pelosi, Reid, Gore, Carter, Dean...SOMEONE - get the hook already.

[Sweet Pea]

24. He won't

He'll bluster and orate some lofty prose about how this is an attack on him. He MUST remain part of the "working class", and the amount of money he made in those years and the *way* he made that money (Resko?? hmmm???) would not bode well for teh hoi polli and his manufactured reputation as a "man of the people".

I tell ya....you *hafta* switch over to Hill!

:puke:

[ProSense]

25. I smell a desperate distraction...

Obama tax returns dating to 1997...

When Obama posted his 2000 to 2006 tax returns on his site, the information was already released, just not posted.

[Clintonista2]

30. Why won't he post the info? Whatever happened to transparency?

[ProSense]

38. Weren't you just up in arms because you thought he hadn't released them?

The information has been released, that's transparency.

[Clintonista2]

44. Shuffling it into some dark corner where no one can find it, isn't transparency.

[ProSense]

45. Releasing information to the media is "shuffling it into some dark corner"?

Are you serious?

Why did Ron Burkle pay Clinton $15 million?

[RaleighNCDUer]

35. How would he know this?

"During this period of time, Sen. Obama was accepting contributions from special interest lobbyists, PACs and even directly from corporations."

And what would these contributions have to do with his tax returns?

BTW, did he say at the time that he would not accept lobbyist money? This was long before his Senate race, or his Presidential race, when he DID say he would refuse lobbyist money.

Maybe his acceptance, at the time, of lobby money is why the DLC was so interested in him - he seemed to share their lack of principles. Then, turning the tables, he rejected the DLC and refused lobbyist money, seeing what pernicious influence it had on the system.

Imagine, a politician maturing in office.

[anonymous171]

39. Illinois has interesting rules about campaign finance.

From what I hear, the game is played a lot differently there. Still, none of that is illegal there.

[Symarip]

42. lol

[not_too_L8]

43. repeated calls? UR full of S*it ...she just started that bullshit yesterday

[boston bean]

46. Well I know I called for release of them about a month ago. nt

[not_too_L8]

47. I'd like to see them too

[Justitia]

48. Whatta bunch of bullshit. NO ONE is required to keep tax records from that long ago.

[uponit7771]

50. The man JUST paid off his student freakin loans what do you THINK his returns will look like?

[zulchzulu]

52. What about the $18 million unaccounted for with recent Clinton tax releases?

They didn't finish their "promise". Once they let us know about the missing $18 million bucks, Obama can then release his tax returns.

The question is:

WHAT ABOUT $18 MILLION UNACCOUNTED FOR?

CUMULATIVE TOTAL (GROSS) INCOME: $109,175,175
Sources
Senator Clinton's Senate Salary: $1,051,606
President Clinton's Presidential Pension: $1,217,250
Senator Clinton's Book Income: $10,457,083
President Clinton's Book Income: $29,580,525
President Clinton's Speech Income: $51,855,599

About 18 million unaccounted for... tax fraud anyone?

[bowens43]

54. Don't be ridiculous.