Activism You Can Do: Help Clinton Produce Her Tax Returns By Sending a "Tax Fax"

Get off it. She said April 15th so wait until then, then rag on her. In the meantime the less than 4% that Obama gave to charity & the $27,000.00 check he gave Rev. Wright is the focus right now. The media is saying Obama says do as I say, not as I do, time to protect your man.

Great question -- luckily with a simple answer! If you don't file a return, or if you're uncomfortable faxing Clinton your own completed returns (even with personal info blacked out), then there's another option. Visit www.irs.gov/formspubs and print out a blank 1040 AND -- this is important -- any schedules you think the Clintons might need (Schedule A&B, itemized deductions; Schedule D, capital gains and losses; maybe Schedule H, household employment!)).

Then fax those out, with a nice note asking whether she's lost hers and hoping these will help.

EVERYONE: please emphasize in your cover notes that we want her to produce returns AND SCHEDULES. Her campaign is making noise about maybe producing some returns or financial info or something next week (good work!!), but is still vague about what exactly that will consist of. We should be clear: the same stuff as Obama posted to his website. That's equal, that's fair, that's not taking sides -- it's transparency.

Thanks!

Yeh, I would really like know how she and hubby made their 40-50 Millions in 16 years, considering they were broke with all those law suits when they left the WH.

Exactly, Anne! Hillary is only interested in having presidential power. She wants her name in history books, as the first female president. I don't believe she truly cares about the United States and, obviously, not her own Democratic Party. I think she will vote for John McCain before she'll vote for Barack Obama. And she will do so out of jealousy, spite, and vindictiveness.

Just a financial but one heck of a spread $10 Mill too $50 mill? 47 pages

Hillary Clinton (D-NY) - 2006 Politician Profile Net Worth: From $10,360,009 to $51,021,998 Ranks 9th among all members of the Senate. Assets: 10 totaling $10,460,009 to $51,052,000. Liabilities: 2 totaling $30,002 to $100,000.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?txtName=clinton

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/CIDsummary.php?CID=N00000019&year=2006

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/candlook.php?capcode=h3mpd&CID=N00000019&submit=Submit

As Bill Bradley put it, the reason their returns and contributors to the library are so important is because it will show who the Clintons are beholden to. Hillary accepts money from PACs, lobbysists and corporations. Those types of organizations are just looking for a place to throw money away to (since it is not tax-deductible) they are looking to gain favor. The same goes for the Clinton Presidential Library; if, say, a million dollars was donated by Saudi Princes, or some such thing, it would call to question where the Clinton's loyalties (and indeed favors) lay.

Obama does not accept this kind of money, his campaign is funded by over a million individual donors. Yes, many have contributed the max, but most have not even come close. In this line of thinking, if you are beholden to the people who finance your campaign, then Senator Obama is beholden to average Americans. And I'm OK with that.

To be sure, I would be most happy to have the same salary as either one of the Obamas, but I also note how much they've contributed to charity. Obama himself admitted to the press that he wouldn't ever loan $5M to his campaign because he doesn't have it.

And of course, if you have nothing to hide, why so secretive?

Uh, John McCain hasn't released his either.

Uh, "books and speeches" doesn't give you the fortune to throw $5 million around like pocket change. It's the deals -- like the $30 million Bill earned for his library by using his presidential prestige to score an oil deal in an old Soviet Republic -- the gives pause.

On the other hand, as I recall, it was only when Barack did well with his first book and Michele got a promotion that they finally came into the chips. Still, I bet they're not doing as well as 90% of the other two-Harvard-Law-grad couples.

Six digits when you are running for President is a relative pauper ! Remember he was a law professor and a state legislator so it is not as if he did not have well paying jobs. But he did work for a living, and he worked smart. The job of senator itself pays 6 digits.

Sounds pretty clean to me ! ( not that I don't wish I made 6 digits. )

The Clintons also did questionable deals. Hillary currently has an ethics complaint pending against her for filing false financial documents with the U.S. senate. If you find Obama's preacher so interesting why not give him a call?

kATIE1263, YOU SOUND Like Lou Dobbs, when he said he couldn't belive people talked like that (referencing the Rev. Well, you and he (Dobbs) should have been in Korea, in the early sixties and heard what a bunch of gi's had to say about JFK, for extending their assignment. Then, you should have heard what they all said about McNamara, when they were on the ground in other countries and he was lying to everybody about that. Oh, and you should have been in the tent after the Generals left the meeting and heard the drivers. To put it mildly, I'll say, they complained bitterly, ok. See, when you pay your dues by "serving your country via military duty" it allows one to justify most anything and everything they complain about -even if the language is a bit colorful. In other words, it ain't no big deal. Lou, did you get that?

You're right Katie1263, we cannot live in fear of a certain group of people. Yet - black Americans and other people of color, have done just that, for years. But that's another subject.

Here we are talking about honesty, truth telling and character. Obama leads the way in this instance. Hillary has lied, and lied - Oh excuse me, "misspoke" and thrown everyone under the bus - Democratic party included. It is shameful that she and Bill would be so callous, and feel so privileged after the mess they served us on a worldwide platter, as to chance causing the Democrats to lose in the general election. Shame, shame, shame on them. She should SIT DOWN.

If you really want to check out the "Pastor Disaster" then get the truth - see and hear the rest of the story. Anyone, yourself included, can sound like a not-so-nice person when their words and situations are taken out of context. If you are really interested in the truth, then go see - and open your eyes and ears. Then tell me who is the person who can't be trusted. At the very least, Obama is upfront and honest.

http://odeo.com/audio/17890793/view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdlnzkeoyQ

http://odeo.com/audio/17889043/view

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BfNqhV5hg4

And there are a lot more real truths out there about Hillary for anyone who takes the time to look.

OK -- but that's O/T. The question is, should Clinton make her 2000-2006 tax returns public like Obama has, to make sure we know everything in everyone's closet and aren't ambushed in November?

If Clinton is hiding something -- and why wouldn't she have slapped her own returns up on her website and said "so there!" to Obama by now if she doesn't have something to hide? -- then the Democratic Party is much better off knowing sooner rather than later, I'd think.

I'd love to know your answer -- should she or do we give her a pass -- and why or why not. Thanks!

I have not decided who I am going to vote for. One thing I do know for certain is that I will not vote for anyone that will not reveal their past tax records before voting time. . My logic is pretty simple. If they have something to hide before they get elected, just think what they will hide when they get elected to the most powerful office in the US.

PS Most people with big bucks have tax specialists do their returns because they are very busy making more money.

One has to include him as he said America would be getting 2 for the price of 1. Also, sometimes he campaigns as if he running for President and not his wife.

Amen. I'm actually surprised that Obama only released his returns yesterday, after weeks and weeks of sniping about Hillary's failure to release hers.

Hillary has said she would release them by mid-April, let her release them by mid-April. There will be plenty of time to analyze them all then. What a non-story.

Nofuzzydreams:

Please understand that 2007's return, which isn't due until April 15, isn't the issue. Of course she should have as long as anyone else to file her return this year. But why is she stalling on her 2006 return (Obama produced his 2006 months ago), and on her 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000 returns (all of which Obama produced yesterday, and which Clinton hasn't produced)?

And now Clinton has backed away from her April 15 promise (which was always an "on or around" fuzzy date anyway), saying that she'll produce her returns three days before the PA primary, ie, April 19 -- which does PA's early-voting absentee voters no good (Clinton's website has a big button urging Pennsylvanians to vote absentee), and doesn't give the rest of the voters much time to process the new info.

So the question, again, is: why can't Clinton photocopy and produce returns that are already done, filed with the IRS, and sitting in her file cabinet?