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Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 08:20 AM Apr 2016

"Sanders has disclosed the least of any remaining candidate except Trump"

If someone asks which of the presidential candidates has revealed the most about his personal finances, what is the correct answer?

Surprisingly, at least to some, the answer is not “his” but “her”: Hillary Rodham Clinton. Often described as secretive, evasive and even untrustworthy, only Clinton so far has fulfilled the most basic expectation of financial transparency for an American presidential candidate.

Last summer, the Democratic front-runner disclosed all the federal income tax returns that she and her husband Bill have filed dating back to 2000. (As everyone knows, the former secretary of state has also disgorged tens of thousands of emails — and far exceeded federal requirements for disclosure by the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, which has long posted a comprehensive annual list of its donors.)

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And not even Bernie Sanders, the insurgent populist who has made tax fairness, financial reform and personal probity so central to his campaign. Like Cruz and Kasich, Sanders has only coughed up the first two pages of a Form 1040; unlike either of them, he has released those pages for only a single year, 2014. So far, in fact, Sanders has disclosed the least of any remaining candidate except Trump.

http://m.nydailynews.com/opinion/joe-conason-tax-return-transparency-hil-trumps-bernie-article-1.2593860

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Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
2. Not to worry. Jane the CPA says she'll get those returns out there, just as soon as
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 08:24 AM
Apr 2016

she can spend a week-end at home. Just so hurried and harried, you know, what with the upcoming Roman Holiday, and all.

DanTex

(20,709 posts)
3. But it's totally different when it's Bernie. Totally!
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 08:27 AM
Apr 2016

You see Bernie misplaced his tax returns. Maybe they're under the sofa, or they accidentally got filed with those creepy essays that he wrote a long time ago. Give him a few more months, I'm sure he can find them somehow.

By the way, did I mention that this guy wants to run the most powerful nation in the world?

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
5. And can you tell us which of his policy proposals you disagree with and why?
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 08:30 AM
Apr 2016

And what, specifically, Hillary has proposed that is better.
And not just "she can get things done."
That is not a policy.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
7. Ya mean like undisclosed shell companies used for tax evasion?
Wed Apr 13, 2016, 08:34 AM
Apr 2016

Like undisclosed promises made to Goldman Sachs and other huge corporations?

That the kind of "undisclosed" you are whining about?

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