McClatchy: Why won't Clinton, McCain make tax returns public?

[babylonsister]

Why won't Clinton, McCain make tax returns public?
By William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers

* Posted on Monday, March 17, 2008


WASHINGTON — During Hillary's Clinton's New York race for the Senate in 2000, a man in an Uncle Sam suit calling himself "Tax Man" followed Republican candidate Rick Lazio around, demanding to know why Lazio was so slow in making his income tax returns public.

"The people of New York have a right to know what he's hiding," said Howard Wolfson, then a top Clinton aide who often trailed behind "Tax Man" feeding reporters campaign spin. "Rick Lazio's 15 minutes are up — he should stop making excuses and come clean with New Yorkers."

Eight years later, Clinton and her presidential campaign aren't making her income tax returns public. She's promised to release her income tax information on or around April 15.

Wolfson, now the Clinton campaign's communications director, won't say why Clinton wouldn't release her tax information earlier. Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, released his 2006 tax returns last April.

Clinton isn't the only presidential candidate who hasn't made tax records public. Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, hasn't either. His campaign says that he'll make his records public in the next month or so.

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[Noirceuil]

1. Tax Returns...yes

I can understand the tax return issue. What I hate is the fact that candidates have to release their medical records to the public. That is nobody's business, not even the voters. Do I really need to know about Obama's blood pressure or the inner workings of McCain's colon to make a decision.

[goclark]

2. Wish we had known that * belonged at Betty Ford's Center

or with Brittany at Promises.

They knew but gave him a pass.

[splat]

3. Like me, they haven't done 'em yet! At taxtime, theirs will come too

Christmas lists don't come out in October.

[youngharry]

4. Clinton Tax Returns

Well, how about all the years since 2001? Where are those records? where are the records of contributors to Bill Clinton's Library? Where are Hillary's records from her 8 years as First Lady? We need to see all that experience in Foreign Affairs she talks about?

WHERE?

WHERE? WHERE? WHERE?