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Article: Flunking the Sunshine Primary; Presidential contenders should release their tax returns.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 19, 2007
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IT'S NOT LEGALLY required, but it has become customary for
presidential candidates to release their income tax returns in
addition to the mandated financial disclosure forms. Unfortunately,
this tradition of openness is at risk.
Among the candidates, only Democratic Sens. Barack Obama (Ill.)
and Christopher J. Dodd (Conn.) have released their returns -- and
most of the others haven't committed to follow suit. North Carolina
Democrat John Edwards is avoiding the issue, saying he has gotten an
extension on filing his taxes so there's nothing yet to disclose.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said through a spokesman that,
"like past presidential candidates," she will "release tax ...