Opinion: Enough with the excuses, helaineolen writes. It’s time for Sanders to release his tax returns.
Sen. Bernie Sanders speaks at the We the People summit in Washington on Monday. By Helaine Olen Helaine Olen Opinion writer focusing on politics, economics and American life Bio Follow Opinion writer April 3 at 11:30 AM It has been more than a month since Sen. Bernie Sanders told a national audience during a CNN town hall that he would release 10 years of his personal taxes “soon,” adding, “We have to do just a few little more things.
Trump broke with decades of precedent in refusing to make his tax returns public when he was running for president. The result? Not only don’t we know our president’s net worth, we also have little idea how he earned his fortune or how he makes his money now. Minus his paperwork, it’s hard to determine whether Trump is using the White House as a just-in-time moneymaking opportunity, violating the emoluments clause of the Constitution, and/or even paying his fair share of taxes at all.
This is not helpful. Democrats need to be ratcheting up their attempts to get the president’s tax returns, not enabling his secrecy. And one way to up the pressure on Trump, not to mention laggards like Neal, is for the Democratic candidates — and I mean all Democratic candidates — to make their own IRS filings public so that they aren’t accused of rank hypocrisy for looking into the president’s finances.
Sanders, of course, is not alone. Beto O’Rourke hasn’t released his tax filings, though he says plans to release some returns “sooner rather than later." Neither has Pete Buttigieg or empowerment-guru-turned candidate Marianne Williamson. Others, including Sen. Cory Booker and Sen. Kamala D. Harris , have released only portions of their taxes in the past. They are all in the wrong. But other Democratic hopefuls get it. Sen.
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