Article: Flunking the Sunshine Primary; Presidential contenders should release their tax returns.

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 ...

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