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In reply to the discussion: April 29th!! Jane Sanders: "Our Taxes Are Being Checked and Will Be Out" (HRC GROUP) [View all]Her Sister
(6,444 posts)32. Plus: Jane Sanders personally financially benefits from shipping Vermont's toxic nuclear waste to be
Radioactive: Tax Return Confirms Bernie Sanders Has Financial Stake in Nuclear Waste Dumping
http://www.thepeoplesview.net/main/2016/4/18/tax-return-confirms-sanders-financial-stake-in-toxic-nuclear-dump
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Bernie Sanders released his 2014 tax returns this weekend, and in addition to having claiming massive mortgage interest and property tax deductions vastly outstripping the average American - and certainly the average Vermonter - the tax returns seem to confirm a dark open secret in the Sanders family: Jane Sanders personally financially benefits from shipping Vermont's toxic nuclear waste to be dumped elsewhere.
For a quick refresher, refer back to our coverage of Bernie Sanders' eager support for Congressional legislation to expedite movement of Vermont's nuclear waste to Texas as well as his cavalier disregard for Texans and Vermonters who opposed the dump. We reported then that though Congress did not designate a specific site, the Congressional record was abundantly clear on where the likely site of the dump would be, near the low-income Latino community of Sierra Blanca. The protests of many progressives, including Paul Welstone's, fell on Bernie Sanders' deaf ears. The community, however, stood up and fought back. And, they won.
Besides from being eager to make his state's nuclear waste someone else's problem in a hurry, TPV writer Kris Jirapinyo noted that Jane O. Sanders, Bernie Sanders' wife, conveniently sat on the Board of Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority, or TLLRWDA, the entity which technically held the power to designate the dump site.
That much we already knew. Now, in light of Bernie Sanders' release of his 2014 taxes, we know that that Bernie and Jane Sanders financially benefit from her position on a Board that participates in willful poisoning of communities despite ample warning. According to their own tax return, Jane Sanders "materially participated" in the board, and received compensation.
For a candidate who cannot breathe a full sentence without baselessly accusing his opponent of taking money from special interests, the discovery that he and his wife financially benefit from nuclear toxic waste dumping is... really... something.
For a quick refresher, refer back to our coverage of Bernie Sanders' eager support for Congressional legislation to expedite movement of Vermont's nuclear waste to Texas as well as his cavalier disregard for Texans and Vermonters who opposed the dump. We reported then that though Congress did not designate a specific site, the Congressional record was abundantly clear on where the likely site of the dump would be, near the low-income Latino community of Sierra Blanca. The protests of many progressives, including Paul Welstone's, fell on Bernie Sanders' deaf ears. The community, however, stood up and fought back. And, they won.
Besides from being eager to make his state's nuclear waste someone else's problem in a hurry, TPV writer Kris Jirapinyo noted that Jane O. Sanders, Bernie Sanders' wife, conveniently sat on the Board of Texas Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Authority, or TLLRWDA, the entity which technically held the power to designate the dump site.
That much we already knew. Now, in light of Bernie Sanders' release of his 2014 taxes, we know that that Bernie and Jane Sanders financially benefit from her position on a Board that participates in willful poisoning of communities despite ample warning. According to their own tax return, Jane Sanders "materially participated" in the board, and received compensation.
For a candidate who cannot breathe a full sentence without baselessly accusing his opponent of taking money from special interests, the discovery that he and his wife financially benefit from nuclear toxic waste dumping is... really... something.
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April 29th!! Jane Sanders: "Our Taxes Are Being Checked and Will Be Out" (HRC GROUP) [View all]
Her Sister
Apr 2016
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She told Andrea Mitchell 2 weeks ago that they weren't going to file for an extension.
George II
Apr 2016
#20
I am just wondering, has Jane taken over all of the interviews? I have seen her
Thinkingabout
Apr 2016
#18
She said this year's tax returns would be released WHEN THEY ARE DUE, which was April 18....
George II
Apr 2016
#19
This story should be paired with the story on Trumps refusal to post his tax papers.
Agnosticsherbet
May 2016
#26
His response to the FEC inquiry about illicit contributions (re March monthly report) is due today.
Koinos
May 2016
#39
Plus: Jane Sanders personally financially benefits from shipping Vermont's toxic nuclear waste to be
Her Sister
May 2016
#32
The idea of releasing tax returns is a common act in Presidential elections.
hamsterjill
May 2016
#35