Where Are Sarah Palin's Tax Returns?

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Vice Presidential Candidate Has Yet to Share Her Filings

As election day comes ever nearer, Democrats and open-government advocates are pressing for the GOP vice presidential candidate to release her tax filings, a campaign tradition that extends at least to the post-Watergate era.

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Since 1976, every major-party presidential and vice-presidential candidate has provided that information to the public, according to an analysis by ABC News. Until Palin, only three hopefuls have held onto their tax returns this late:

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A spokesman for Palin Thursday reiterated the campaign's stance on the matter. "We plan to release Governor Palin's tax returns well before the election," said Taylor Griffin.

For Ritsch, that's not good enough. "A campaign that is touting what it will do to make government more transparent can take a first step by making the candidates transparent." Nicholas Tucker contributed to this report.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5839282

[HopeHoops]

1. An undisclosed location?

[StopTheNeoCons]

33. They are being doctored, they know they have bad stuff in them

[Javaman]

2. Tightly sealed in a safe at an undisclosed location that will require

an act of congress and dynamite to open up.

don't hold your breath, they will never ever see the light of day.

[Robbien]

3. A question on politics is late breaking news? n/t

[Dogtown]

16. I appreciated reading it.

It's timely. It's news.

It is important.




What's your gripe?

[crossroads]

30. So did I! nt

[firedupdem]

4. Everything surrounding that woman includes outright lies and

half truths. It's amazing how this story isn't making a lot of headlines. I guess when you can flat out refuse to respond to subpoenas and tell lies daily we shouldn't be surprised.

[HopeHoops]

6. Ah, so now we get to the "straight talk" when McCain said she was "qualified" - GOP corrupt at core

[crossroads]

31. She IS qualified ~~~ according to Repuke standards!

Their resume insists on them being liars!

CR

[Liberalynn]

5. She doesn't have to release them.

She doesn't feel its "legitimate" to ask her for them. ;)

[not fooled]

7. Yeah

Where's the DEFERENCE, folks???

Poor Sarah :sarcasm:

:puke:

[ColonelTom]

38. And happily, we don't have to vote for her. :) n/t

[Mabus]

8. and her medical and other records.

I'd also like to see her calendar and phone logs from her time as governor. I'd like to who she was meeting with, who she talked to and when they met. In particular I'd like to see how many times she worked with, say, Sen. Ted Stevens.

[Robb]

9. Even asking for them is sexist.

What's wrong with you people?!? :D

[Politicalboi]

46. Yeah what's wrong with THESE people

How dare you ask that of a working woman who is a mother of 5 or 4 kids. I'm sure it will show how she worked for 77 cents on the dollar and didn't whine about it. She's a woman for christ sake you can't expect her to make as much as a man. That's grocery money and her gas money. Remember she's a MOM. Sexist Bastards :rofl:

[liberal N proud]

10. Asking Sarah about taxes is being sexist

:sarcasm:

[Lochloosa]

11. Damn Good Question.

[byronius]

12. She'll release them when the media shows deference and respect for her.

Which will be.........never.

[Hugin]

13. She kind of strikes me as one of those back-hills anti-revenuer types.

Probably doesn't have any Tax Records.

But, could gin up some in a bathtub, if you really wanted them.

[warpigs]

14. Where are the McCain's tax records? EOM

[spindrifter]

53. Remember, Cindy said she wasn't releasing hers.

Without her records, his are but a shadow of what is going on.

[madrchsod]

15. none of our businessl.......the republican way

[yellowcanine]

17. I think she will not be releasing them. The per diem thingy would blow up I think.

Because claiming per diem when living in your own house would seem to violate IRS regs.

[ColonelTom]

39. Bingo. n/t

[clear eye]

18. Hard for her to explain all those perks she took and didn't declare

like the value of the salary of the guy that cooks for her family, and the tanning bed.

[sop]

19. They'll release them during the next big manufactured Obama flap

The media is cyclical, one week they're hammering McCain, the next week they're slamming Obama....got to be fair and balanced, after all. There are still several weeks left before the election, plenty of time for the GOP to launch their next "Obama Scandal" offensive. This will probably take the form of some incredible and unsubstantiated charge, followed by immediate calls from the McCain camp for full and complete disclosure from the Obama campaign....I can hear them now: "Obama has to come clean on this!". This phony and manufactured "scandal" will probably be taken up by the media, hyped and distorted beyond all reason, and will be the latest "distraction of the week". Look for the tax records to be dumped right around that time.

[underpants]

20. Is lipstick deductible?

:*

[Birthday]

55. That was funny. n/t

[nichomachus]

21. They'll pull the information overload trick

Just like they did with McCain's medical records. They will assemble all of Palin's tax records for the last 20 years -- Todd's too -- and the kids. They will have everything jumbled up. Then, they'll give reporters one hour to look at them, no photos, no taking notes.

[merwin]

22. I don't think anyone could be any more transparent than Palin is.

She's transparently a lying, cheating, word-that-Randi-got-fired-for.

[AlbertCat]

23. More of the same

Here we have the GOP version of the shake 'em up, transparency in government crowd. It's a joke. With this and refusing subpoenas, what's new? "The kids are off limits" "We'll show you when we're ready"... but you chose a public life. Deal with it.

Like I said earlier, let's see this warrantless surveillance clan champion privacy laws.

[VP505]

24. Hey don't be in such a rush

doncha know it takes time to doctor up err, prepare those documents for public viewing.

[Magleetis]

25. Another repug criminal

FUSP

[paparush]

26. Ahem..you are not showing DEFERENCE to the candidate.

:sarcasm:
:puke:

[Pisces]

27. WHere is Sarah Palins press conference??? Voting starts next week and no questions to the potential

veep???

[stlsaxman]

28. ...and McCain's medical records... and come to think of it- Lady McBeth's tax returns...

:shrug:

[bobd0]

29. WHAT IS PALIN HIDING?

Palin refuses to be questioned by the press, refuses to answer a subpoena, hasn't released her tax returns -- what the hell is she hiding and how is McCain/Palin (or is that Palin/McCain?) getting away with this?

If a Democratic candidate tried this bullshit they'd be lambasted by the right wing press until they gave in. We can't have fair elections if the candidates aren't all treated equally. The press needs to bring this up at every opportunity -- at every McCain/Palin appearance.

These people are as arrogant and secretive as the Bush White House -- and what's left of our democracy certainly can't survive four more years of that.

[lark]

44. She's bush in a skirt

They steal the election for him, get him in office, kill him off and they've got their dream, another 4 year for reich wing nuts in control, another 4 years to drain America's economy and convert us to third world status with them as the dictators and everyone else outside a chosen few as serfs.

[AllyCat]

32. Same place as John and Cindy's?

[LynneSin]

34. Biden did his

don't see what the big deal is

[KamaAina]

35. A moose ate them

:P

[Piewhacket]

36. Will we stand and fight????

THEY ARE RUNNING OUT THE CLOCK....

I know everyone here knows this. I just had to shout it.
Repukes have NOTHING but to try to run out the clock as life ebbs from their
miserable campaign.

No one in McCain's camp knows crap about economics, domestic or foreign policy, or anything.
It doesn't matter to them, because it isn't about that. McCain-Palin are just frontmen.
Its about getting elected on a bunch of disingenuous crap then later putting
together a government of the same old chickenshit chrony scum-sucking repukes (and we all
know who I'm talking about). That's why its called MCSAME!

They won't address substance. They don't HAVE ANY.
They think they can do this without substance.
They calculate that they HAVE to do it WITHOUT substance.

So there won't be any debates. There won't be substantive responses to criticism.
Obama-McCain debate? Biden-Palin debate? You gotta be joking. Ain't happening.

TIME IS THE PRECIOUS COMMODITY NOW.
They are not going to fight back with substance, they can't, they won't.
So it is TIME to hit them with their dirty dishes and throw the kitchen sink.
Make it stick. WHERE ARE PALIN"S TAX RETURNS????

But it does me no good to do it here in CA. CA is going for Obama. You DUer in
battleground states (like OH) are the important players now. It is your TIME to
make ALL the difference. The battle must be won on the ground, we cannot do it
from the air (Murdoch has air superiority, in case you hadn't noticed). It is TIME
that reluctant warriors stand and be heard. Grandma, we ask your service once again,
to keep our country safe. Son, you owe a debt of service to your grandmother, get
on it or lose your place of honor.

Its TIME!
The aspirations of the world are now focused on the few, on US.
Will we stand and fight????

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"Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that
gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to
be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"
-Patric Henry, 1775
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[Diane R]

37. I've been saying this. And she needs to release medical records, too.

[garthranzz]

40. Who are the other three?

Curious minds want to know. Twould be revealing.

[kay1864]

41. It's in the ABC article

Bush Sr.
Shrub
Joe Lieberman

[garthranzz]

43. Oh, the three blind mice!

Why am I not surprised!!!!

[Quantess]

50. Papa Bush, W Bush, and Joe Lieberman

surprise, surprise.

[foxfeet]

42. Destroyed in a meth lab explosion. nt

[prayin4rain]

45. hahaha awesome n/t

[pkz]

47. ***Financial Disclosure***

https://webapp.state.ak.us/apoc/index.jsp

click on Financial Disclosure

put "Palin" in search box

[Retrograde]

56. so she's a year and a half late

on her Alaska disclosures, according to this site.

[JerseygirlCT]

48. I'd say we're pretty well into the "well before the election"

territory already, aren't we?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

49. I wonder if she wrote off the tanning bed

as medical expense.

[RamboLiberal]

51. The per diems are being questioned

Several tax accounting blogs have raised the question: should Sarah Palin pay federal income taxes on the per-diem payments that she received from the state of Alaska for nights spent in her Wasilla, Alaska, home?

Anthony C. Infanti, a professor of tax law at the University of Pittsburg law school, raised the issue in a blog called “Feminist Law Professors.” Mr. Infanti writes that if Governor Palin was not engaging in business while in Wasilla, but simply preferring to spend the nights there, then the per diem payments would be taxable income.

“If these are really just personal expenses paid by her employer, that sounds like taxable income to me,” Mr. Infanti wrote in his posting.

Ms. Palin received around $17,000 in per diem payments from the state for 312 nights she spent in her Wasilla home rather than the Governor’s mansion in her first 19 months in office. Per diem payments are a daily allowance to cover meals and lodging while on the state’s business.

Kim Garnero, the Alaska director of finance, has said that the state does not consider the payments to Ms. Palin to be taxable income at the federal level. But others, besides Mr. Infanti, differ. One of them is Robert S. McIntyre, director of the Citizens for Tax Justice, a labor-backed group whose calculations are widely respected by tax experts.

“It’s obvious that the per diems are taxable income. There’s no question it is taxable,’’ Mr. McIntyre said. “If it were not taxable, no one would pay taxes. People would convert their salary into a per diem and no one would pay taxes. You can deduct travel expenses when away from home. But you cannot deduct travel when you are at home.”

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/are-palins-per-diem-payments-taxable/

[spindrifter]

52. I want to see how much money

Alaska and the republican party have paid Todd Palin.

[myrna minx]

54. They're floating off a former iceberg, Charlie. Perhaps they've floated to Russia, Charlie. n/t