I have a theory about Jane and those tax returns.
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When Jane was president of Burlington College, she launched a million dollar expansion campaign and it failed. As a result, the college went deeply in debt. She was fired by the Board of Trustees.
Jane received a $200,000 severance pay. In corporate America, they call it a golden parachute. That was huge money in a college that was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. The college is still struggling to survive.
That payoff is in their income tax returns.
Update: The point has been made that $200,000 isn't that much money given the millions paid to fired corporate CEOs. However, Burlington College is very small. It consists of one large three story building with less than 300 students. Two years ago the school's accrediting agency put BC on probation because of its financial situation. Last February the estate of a donor who gave the school $70,000 for scholarships sued the school alleging that the school used the money to pay bills. So in this context, $200,000 is a lot of money, but I think that Bernie and Jane are much more concerned about the principle of the situation.
Sermonizing about the poor while accepting $200,000 from a school that was struggling to survive.
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/local/2016/02/22/founder-sues-burlington-college-alleges-misused-funds/80750564/
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/education/2014/07/07/burlington-college-probation/12301801/
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The Sanders campaign wants to hold Hillary to a singular higher standard, but won't meet the most basic common standard themselves. 
Raise your hand whoever wants to keep that shite away from the White House..
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...and her fancy accounting tricks to get the money to buy land the school could not afford, for a huge expansion that would then have to attract lots of new students from somewhere.
Burlington College episode where she showed an abysmal sense of how finance works. Yet, she does the family's taxes? OK, with TurboTax, it doesn't take a genius. But still? And she insists that they've requested no filing extension for 2015. Does she even realize that the filing deadline was last week? 
And Bernie's campaign is STILL in trouble with the FEC! 
Not only do I have trouble figuring out how financing Bernie's pie-in-the-sky promises for our nation would work ... I find his approach to his own and his campaign's finances laughable. At best. 
We may really have dodged a bullet.
