Bernie is looking silly with this tax return release delays....

[USALiberal]

I voted for Bernie in the Kansas primary in 2016, but numerous clips of him trying to explain why he is not releasing taxes makes him look like he is hiding something.

His campaign advisor or PR person needs to jump on this ASAP.

[Amimnoch]

1. I know, certainly someone in his social networking team

has the skills to modify them appropriately by now?!?!

[watoos]

2. So when will Beto release his taxes?

I see that Beto isn't committing how many years he will release. Be careful about calling out the splinter in someone else's eye.

Frankly I don't think that many of the Democratic candidates have released his/her taxes, some have released 10 even 12 years. Also I see that Kirsten only released 1 year, will that be the standard for all our candidates?

[Amimnoch]

3. Some haven't been running and promising for years.

He said he will just 2 days ago. I'm willing to give him a bit of time. Not 3 years though.

https://www.texastribune.org/2019/04/02/beto-orourke-julian-castro-release-tax-returns-timing-unclear/

[yardwork]

9. This whataboutism isn't going to help Bernie.

One by one, others who have declared for the presidency are releasing many years of returns.

Bernie is being compared to Trump. They are the only two who have been promising to release their returns for years and haven't.

Trump is not a good standard.

[Cha]

14. Haha.. What About?!

[Blue_true]

35. Gillibrand has a history of publicly releasing her return every year.

She has done that every year of her political career. The 2018 just adds to what she has already released. I think Harris does the same thing, her past returns are in the public record.

As far as I can tell, among the majors only Beto and Buttigieg hasn't released, but I read that Buttigieg released past years returns as mayor, so those are in the public record.

Bernie really is the only person that seems to have an issue.

[pnwmom]

37. Kirsten has released 10 years, not one. And Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren, and Jay Inslee

have also all released at least 10 years.

Bernie is the only one, however, who started running 3 years ago, and never coughed up more than a single 7 page 2014 return.

https://www.vox.com/2019/3/27/18284271/kirsten-gillibrand-tax-returns-release

Gillibrand has now published her tax returns dating back 10 years.

[SWBTATTReg]

4. I don't think he is looking silly, especially when compared to rumps' claims that he's been ...

under a so called audit for what seems like forever. Yeah, sure. Crook's tax returns are riddled w/ fraud and this would be discovered should the tax returns be placed under a forensic accounting examination.

Remember rump crowing about one shouldn't pay taxes if they don't have to? I suspect that he took loads of unclaimed money from foreign entities and didn't claim it as income. Had to be a significant amount too. Should have been declared as income.

[Cha]

15. We need Full Transparency from All

our candidates in the primaries.

trump is not the bar.

[SWBTATTReg]

17. True. Absolutely true for all of our candidates. And I feel like they all will. I trust our ...

candidates.

[lark]

5. Yeah, I was the starry eyed liberal who voted for him in the 2016 primary - but no more.

I had no idea about his taxes at the time. Now, 3 years later and he still has released no returns - makes me think his involvement with Ukraine and Manafort must have been more extensive than already realized? Of course, that's just a guess. Since he employed Manafort's' partner in the pro-Russian Ukraine government as his campaign manager, it also could be a real issue for him? If not that, there's bound to be some other fuckery in there or he'd have released it.

[NurseJackie]

6. I wonder if "suspicious" would be a better word to use, instead of "silly".

His campaign advisor or PR person needs to jump on this ASAP.

Could it be that he (and Jane) and the campaign director/s have ALREADY made a cynical and calculated decision that there would be less damage from NOT releasing them, compared to the damage of actually releasing them as promised?

This is a great big "fuck you" to the American voters and to the other candidates.

It's the political equivalent of "Pleading-the-Fifth" ... and although that's not legal proof of wrongdoing, it certainly does make people wonder what's being hidden.

People deserve to know if the candidate they're thinking of voting for is honest and that he (or she) is not a "tax-cheat". The voters are entitled to know where a candidate's money comes from, how it's being invested, donated, saved. Is the money in a domestic bank or in some off-shore haven? Is the candidate generously giving to his/her favorite charities? If so, what are they? There's MUCH to be learned about a candidate by looking at his or her full and complete tax returns.

Personally, I think it's hypocritical for ANYONE to be lecturing other politicians about how important things like "honesty" and "transparency" are... and then to completely ignore that standard. Any candidate who does that would be revealing his (or her) hypocrisy.

It's my belief that anyone who doesn't release their full and complete tax returns (for at LEAST ten years prior... no "summaries" and no "corrections" or "re-filing'') should be disqualified and ineligible from appearing in any DNC debates.

[MANative]

7. THIS!!!!!

[oasis]

11. +1,000,000

[Cha]

16. I think it would be the

Best WORD!

[yardwork]

8. Not silly. Something worse. This hurts Bernie's credibility.

The delay is due either to incompetence or a cover-up. Neither is a good look.

[Cha]

34. Exactly.

[vsrazdem]

10. I agree. I'm tired of hearing about it. Release them already!

[CentralMass]

12. I have to agree.

[Cha]

23. Wow!

[floppyboo]

13. Sure would be a good thing if they were released sooner than later

This really shouldn't be an issue, but delaying is making it one.
Get off the pot Bernie!

[Gothmog]

19. Just tell us who owns Old Towm Media, LLC

[Gothmog]

18. From the Hoarse Whisperer

Link to tweet

?s=20

[CentralMass]

20. Has Pete Buttigieg released his yet ?

[USALiberal]

21. When he says he will release them, then months later if he hasn't, I'll post about it also. nt

[R B Garr]

22. Pretty sure Pete is not lagging over 1,000 days as

is Sanders.

[Cha]

24. Some pesky States are making it a law..

because of trump.. you'd think that would be a Huge Hint!

Link to tweet

[CentralMass]

27. I agree that Bernie needs to produce the goods but 2016 was one primary and this another.

[R B Garr]

32. It's been 1094 days since he said he would show his

taxes. This is just a fresh excuse that his fans think will mitigate the fact that he’s had years.

[CentralMass]

33. Its not an issue that keeps me awake at night. I look foreard to him putting the issue to rest

[Blue_true]

36. He released them as mayor. So 7 years worth are in the public record.

Bernie is the only candidate that has never released full returns.

[pnwmom]

38. He hasn't officially announced his candidacy, unlike Bernie. n/t

[UniteFightBack]

25. Well the news shows are starting to talk about it some...that ain't good. nt

[GemDigger]

26. I just found out that Bernie has been avoiding showing his taxes, not for years. but

for decades.

[CentralMass]

28. Bullshit.

https://www.legistorm.com/memberdisclosure/460/Sen_Bernie_Sanders.html

[GemDigger]

29. 3 years worth of something I cannot see because you link something that has a paywall

Show me something I and Joe Public can see then you have something to work on. He has been in office for decades not three just years and it wasn't given to the public. You know, the voters.

"I didn't end up doing it because I didn't win the nomination, if we had won the nomination we would have". Bernie, last week.

[pnwmom]

39. Senate financial disclosure forms have different info than US tax returns.

One of them doesn't substitute for the other.

[DaGimpster]

30. I clearly currently support Sanders but...

...would like him to get these out, and behind him. I'm not going to defend Sanders on this issue for sure.

[uponit7771]

31. K&R, Sanders should release *****FULL***** Tax Returns not just summaries