After months of bobbing, weaving and excusing, the Clinton’s released their tax returns. They are apparently almost twice as rich as was previously thought, with over 108 million dollars made in the last 8 years alone.
I guess we’ll have to wait for the more mathematically inclined bloggers to explain it to us, but I can’t see why they waited so long. They are filthy rich, but that has never bothered voters in their presidential candidates. They have business dealings with some company in Dubai and somewhat shady issues with a consulting company and their own charity, but if shady economic issues mattered, the Clinton clan would have fallen long before.
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1 Jules Crittenden » Are You Better Off Now
April 5, 2008 @ 4:02 pm CEST[…] MSNBC notes a disconnect between Hill’s anti-Dubai stance and Bill’s Dubai dealings, and adds that while the Clintons were generally “conservative” (irony added) in their pursuit of deductions, not taking all they could, they became strangely “aggressive” about home-office deductions in 2003, when cleaning and maintenance cost them nearly $150,000 deductible. Those must be pretty palatial home offices. Judging by the kind of work Bill did in the Oval Office, more diligent cleaning may be in order. The Swamp with more on those business relationships, which have raised shareholder eyebrows. Poligazette suggests shady economics will prove no obstacle. […]
2 Kevin H
April 5, 2008 @ 8:44 pm CESTI just think it’s a timing issue. This isn’t going to play as a positive, so there is no reason to get it out sooner. Maybe only a few people care about their level of wealth, but why alienate anyone you don’t have to. Maybe they thought they could wrap up the nomination, then release the tax returns when no one really cared anymore.
3 Interested
April 6, 2008 @ 9:53 am CESTEconomically, the Clinton’s don’t want to return to the Clinton years.
4 C Stanley
April 6, 2008 @ 12:31 pm CESTHeh, good point, Interested. How would they answer the question: "Are you better off now than you were eight years ago?"