Will we have the same duck and dodge from Sanders on his tax returns?

[bigtree]

...or will he make them immediately available?

This is something that especially aggravated me about Sanders' 2016 bid. He promised he'd release his tax returns, but reversed on that promise later in the election, presumably because he was no longer a viable candidate.

He also did a cute dodge claiming he'd already released them, providing only the 1040 two-page summary of his 2014 tax returns.

We deserve better if he's expecting to be seen as credible. We deserve to see the full tax returns for the past decade, as Hillary Clinton provided eight years of her own tax documents during that campaign.

As the Washington Post Fact Checker pointed out, the nonprofit Tax Analysts archives tax returns released by presidential candidates. In the 2016 field, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was the most transparent, releasing 34 years of tax returns, from 1981 through 2014. The site also has 15 years of tax returns released by Hillary Clinton, dating to her race for Senate in 2000, plus another eight years that were released by her husband, Bill, when he was a presidential candidate and president.

Bush’s 2013 tax return, for example, is 62 pages long, and Clinton’s 2014 return is 44 pages. The two candidates released not only the 1040 two-page summary, but also Schedule A for itemized deductions, Schedule B for interest and dividends, and other forms that detail assets and income. -WP

We deserve the full tax returns right away, not like the last campaign where he dragged his feet before folding on that promise when voters eventually turned their backs on his primary bid.

[WeekiWater]

1. Warren and Gillibrand

https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/tax-returns

https://elizabethwarren.com/tax-returns/

[honest.abe]

2. Clearly he's hiding something.

Probably some large unusual income from an odd source.

[redstatebluegirl]

3. Yes, he doesn't want any of his supporters to know how rich he is or where it came from.

It will burst their bubble.

[Andy823]

5. Yep! nt

[BlueIdaho]

4. Tax returns or not...

He is one of the least interesting candidates in this election cycle. He is yesterday’s news.

[MineralMan]

6. I think he will try not to release them.

I suppose there is some reason he doesn't want them revealed. Otherwise, why refuse to make them public. There's something embarrassing in those returns.

[tritsofme]

7. It doesn't really matter. He is barely a top tier candidate, riding on name recognition from 2016.

If he lingers around, it will be in the capacity of a much more familiar role for him, irrelevance.

[sarcasmo]

8. Didn't a couple states make releasing taxes mandatory before you could be on the ballot?

[honest.abe]

10. Maryland is one.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-president-tax-returns-20180305-story.html

[tritsofme]

12. Those laws are highly vulnerable to challenge at the federal level.

I wouldn’t expect them to restrict any candidate in the 2020 cycle.

[Scurrilous]

9. K&R

[Gothmog]

11. sanders will have to release five years or skip Maryland

Link to tweet

[tritsofme]

13. It doesn't appear this bill was taken up by the state house or signed by the governor?

I didn’t see subsequent coverage after a quick search.

Regardless it would be highly vulnerable to challenge, and if it came into effect, likely to meet an injunction that makes it inoperable in at least the 2020 cycle.