Last night, Bernie Sanders boldly proclaimed that he was finally releasing his taxes...for 2014? Here are My speculations:
What is about 2014 that he likes so much?
- Jane wasn’t employed
- Unlike 2012, he wasn’t running for the Senate and shouldn’t have had Jane and all of those other family members on his campaign payroll
- He probably knew he was running for president by then
Well why not release 2015?
- The family is most likely back on the campaign payroll—enjoying the bounty of the 6-million individual donors
- The taxes are due Monday but since Jane is at the Vatican, she doesn’t have time to do them, but she been campaigning so hard that she didn’t have time to go home to find them...but obviously, someone went home to find ...h]just 2014 to add the narrative to his only released summary
Vanity Fair’s Comments
1. We have only one year of Bernie’s returns, tax year 2014, and even that return is in the Cruz-and-Kasich school of partial disclosure, with just the first few pages made public. As for the rest of the forms, Bernie claims “there ain’t going to be very much exciting” in them, a statement that may dampen interest among tax-return thrill seekers but fails to satisfy the rest of us.
2. Bernie said that his full 2014 tax returns would be released today and that previous years would follow “shortly.” This may be true, or may not.
3. Earlier this month, Sanders told Jake Tapper that he has released tax records from previous years, which sounded perfectly fine, except it wasn’t true.
4. Jane Sanders, who supposedly prepares the taxes, says the main obstacle to releasing them is that she hasn’t been home in a while, which might be an understandable obstacle prior to the dawn of the Intertubes.
5. We don’t know numbers from other years, and we don’t know what Sanders is hiding.
6. Speculation has begun:
- that he doesn’t donate to charity
- he donates to communists
- So what is he trying to hide? What? What?
So here were are; anxiously waiting for Bernie Sanders to continue his lack of transparency.
Folks, he’s looking more guilty by the minute.