We can agree to disagree here - Nate Silver didn’t become a sensation because he predicted what everyone already knew. Had it not been so shocking he wouldn’t have made that name for himself.
When you don’t provide your taxes, you create concerns. That’s not smart.
here you go:
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Queue the goalpost moving…
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That’s just his 1040 form, a summary of his federal returns, not his full returns.
Clinton has release her full tax records for the last 15 years.
Queue the goalpost moving…
Ha, it only took four minutes!
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Birth certificate?
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For Romney it was relevant as part of a larger pattern of a businessman/financier with a history of very dodgy financial activity, the tax forms were a small part of a larger narrative. The tax forms were not what sank his candidacy - the strong incumbent he was up against, the binders full of women, 47% comments, history of destroying American jobs, Vulture Capitalist background, campaign blunders, and “missing white people” sank his campaign. Sanders has been in the Senate decades, hasn’t amassed a heap of capital, and doesn’t have the questionable ties to Wall St./big business that would merit scrutiny. So he should submit more forms and says he will, but the lack of tax forms isn’t part of any greater pattern. The concern for concern’s sake is touching but pointless.
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Heeey - that’s the Pepsi logo in the bird!
I knew it! He’s a corporate shill.
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Nice try, but no banana for you, today Sir.
he could reuse many of the slogans
“Vote Sanders. Get Stuff”
“Something For Everyone”
“Election Time is Bernie Time”
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You do yourself great injustices, Sir.
Thank you for proving my point, Sir or Madam.
Only for the people who choose to be concerned about it.
The taxes issue is only valuable as a tool to attack a candidate and try to sow concern by some people who have already made up their minds about a candidate.
We didn’t need to see Romney’s taxes to know that he was a plutocrat who thought little of the poor since his record of closing businesses was already public.
We don’t need to see Sanders’ taxes to know that he doesn’t have an international foundation or that he flies coach when he’s not on the later stages of the campaign trail.
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Actually a callout to Negativland’s 1997 classic album, Dispepsi.
Any concern should be grounded in the belief that Bernie’s tax records will actually contain something he is trying to cover up. If a person honestly believes that then eagerly awaiting tax records makes sense. It seems a little fanciful. Oh course another fanciful idea is that Clinton’s tax records actually tell us anything. With a net worth in excess of $100M, the Clintons are among Americans who don’t have to pay taxes if the don’t want, and the entire point of tax evasion schemes like the ones being uncovered right now in the Panama Papers is that they don’t show up on your taxes.
I’m not saying that Hilary Clinton is evading taxes. I’m saying that having her tax records doesn’t tell us whether or not she is.
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So, two wrongs make it right then?
