The Clintons' tax returns
Lots of political observers and other interested parties (opponents and press) have been pressing Hillary Clinton to release her tax returns. Today she did. On a Friday, that black hole day for news.
Her website has details. Since 2000 the Clintons have reported $109 million in gross income.
The site has the tax returns for each year since 2000 except for 2007.
The pundits will have to give up their Saturday to parse this all out, but over at Political Wire, Taegan Goddard has listed 5 reasons why this was a great time for her to dump the returns this weekend.
- News coverage will continue to focus on the 40th anniversary of the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination.
- There are still more than two weeks until the Pennsylvania primary.
- It buries the story about chief strategist Mark Penn's conflicts of interest.
- Many people are more interested in watching the Final Four and first weekend of baseball season.
- It's Friday.
Anyone analyze charitable contributions yet?
Posted by: Cal Skinner | April 05, 2008 at 01:13 PM
I good portion went to their own foundation, William Jefferson Clinton Foundation . Looks like the Clinton's could afford to pay a little more in taxes or just give an extra 10% of their income to help others. Wonder why Hillary wants to raise everyone else's taxes, but doesn't want to give more of their money away or give more to the government?
Posted by: Ron | April 06, 2008 at 10:11 AM