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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 08:17 AM Apr 2019

Taxes Do Matter




40 days ago?? Try 3 years ago in his last campaign. This guy attacked Hillary Clinton on transparency repeatedly but he's been playing the same game as Trump on releasing his tax returns for 3 years. To quote @BernieSanders from 2016: "What we are saying is, enough is enough."


Why the delay?
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lark

(23,158 posts)
1. I can tell you this, there is no good reason for the 3 year delay.
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 09:06 AM
Apr 2019

Don't know what it is, but definitely think we are just being gaslighted by the Independent Senator.

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UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
2. This is true. It's hard defending that. I'm no tax pro but couldn't he have already cleaned up
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 10:08 AM
Apr 2019

and amended what he needed to do by now? I just don't understand how he would not of seen that this just
DOESN'T LOOK GOOD, even if it is completely innocent. If stuff needs to be hidden then HIDE IT already...if things cannot be hidden then you a fool to be running.

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Snotcicles

(9,089 posts)
3. Don't uncover because there might be nothing and nothing can't be covered again. Antonio Porchia nt.
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 10:16 AM
Apr 2019
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Politicub

(12,165 posts)
4. "Finishing touches", you see.
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 10:17 AM
Apr 2019

He’s decorating his returns with stickers and washi tape apparently.

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GemDigger

(4,305 posts)
5. I wouldn't hold my breath.
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 12:09 PM
Apr 2019

When asked why he didn't in 2016 he said

"I didn't end up doing it because I didn't win the nomination, if we had won the nomination we would have".
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BlueFlorida

(1,532 posts)
6. It is spelled
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 12:12 PM
Apr 2019

h-y-p-o-c-r-i-s-y

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SidDithers

(44,228 posts)
7. It's not even the taxes anymore...
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 12:28 PM
Apr 2019

It’s the lying about releasing them.

Sid

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Cha

(297,723 posts)
8. Oh is that what the question was about..!
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 03:38 PM
Apr 2019


Mahalo, Soph
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question everything

(47,537 posts)
9. Sticking his finger in our face to show us what he thinks about us, while still
Sat Apr 6, 2019, 03:42 PM
Apr 2019

get people to vote for him.

Reminds me of.... never mind

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