(August 29, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Jenny A Wrote:(August 29, 2016 at 3:09 pm)KUSA Wrote: Why do presidential candidates release their tax returns anyway?
Seriously? Because how we make and spend money reveals: our income and a little bit about how we make it (which tells us something about abilities, moralirty, capabilitycapability,; real proffession); our charitable contributions (which tells us about charactor), finacial conflicts of interest (which tells us about where we should be suspicious about policy based on self interest); and tax burden (which tells us what the tax burden of the candidate's tax policy on their own pocketbook). It is why we require tax information from many , many executive government officials.
And when has this information ever changed an election? They all give to charity for a tax write off.
I don't care either way, I was just asking.