Sanders releases 10 years of tax returns.

[frazzled]

27. I never called for him to release them ...

but releasing them is not the story. What they may contain is the story. I am no tax expert, so I will leave that to the experts.

But just opening a random few, I did notice two things:

1. I wish the pages on which they were signed and dated were appended. Are these revised forms or originally filed? Who is the accountant who signed them? Etc.

2. A little thing popped out to me, looking at 2012 and 2014. Numbers reported for 2012 for "unreimbursed meal expenses" were $8,946 (of which you can claim 50%). That's quite a bit, but I figure, he's a senator: he probably has to take a lot of business meetings and entertain people, etc. But then I noticed that the unreimbursed meal expenses for 2014 were ... the same $8,946. What's that about? Is he on the meal plan? Maybe there's an explanation: maybe senators get to claim the food they eat while in Washington as unreimbursed expenses. I'd be surprised, because that's their job, and you don't get to take your daily meals while on your principal job as expenses, or at least the rest of us don't. Only when you have to travel or take people to dinner over business. But it would be unusual to spend the exact same amount, to the penny, in two different years.

Just wondering. Don't really care all that much. Again, I await the experts on such matters.