2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhy isn't Sanders releasing all his tax returns?
At some point, you have to ask if he's hiding something. Surely the campaign recognizes the importance of transparency on this issue, and could if necessary fund a tax firm to review his tax firms and make sure that they were done properly. He released his 2014 tax return, so that was a start. By not releasing his tax returns, he's providing cover for Trump who, like Sanders, apparently has something to hide. Clinton, Cruz, Kasich, and many of the Republicans who have withdrawn have all released more tax returns than Bernie.
http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/web/presidentialtaxreturns
The only other tax return he released was in 1996 when he released his 1995 tax return.
http://www.factcheck.org/2016/04/sanders-evades-tax-question/
But our fact-checking colleague at the Washington Post came across a 1996 news article about Sanders 1995 1040 form. The article, which appeared in a Vermont publication called Seven Days, was headlined El Cheapo! and focused on the $1,369 that Sanders donated to charity. The article also shows that Sanders reported a total income of $125,842, claimed $25,372 in itemized deductions and paid $19,563 in federal taxes.
scscholar
(2,902 posts)Sanders already addressed this.
LisaM
(27,813 posts)from when Hillary was in office. Jane Sanders landed on this as an "out", but the two things are not related at all. Most Presidential candidates release their tax returns. It's such a false equivalency.
enid602
(8,620 posts)The pressure to release thr taxes has subsided now that he's all but lost the primary.
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Raine1967
(11,589 posts)Seriously tho, I'd like to see him release his returns as a matter of transparency.
and I don't equivocate tax returns to Clinton's transcripts.
Apples and beans imo.
DU was ALL over the fact that Romney would not release his returns in the 2012 race. I see a lot of people making excuses for Sanders not releasing his.
Clinton has made her returns public. Sanders is stonewalling for some reason. Her speeches are a bad excuse for Sanders not to make them public -- IMO.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)See what I did there?