Why Disclosure Of Tax Return Information is a Statism verses Privacy Issue
A post appeared today on the pro-tax Liberal Values that's pretty incredible when you get to the comments section, about Hillary Clinton's reluctance to release her tax returns:
After reading this, it looks like there might be a lot of interesting things in those Clinton tax returns. Bill has sure made a lot of money while keeping the details secret.
Since leaving office in 2001, Clinton has wiped out millions of dollars in legal bills and become a multimillionaire through a brisk schedule of speechmaking and book-writing, as well as a pair of consulting and investing agreements that have yielded as-yet-undisclosed sums.
Someone pointed out in a comment that in terms of this being an issue, the emperor may have no clothes:
Personally, I have never understood the whole issue of candidates needing to release tax returns. I am sure the IRS looks very closely at the returns of anyone even semi-famous . . .
At this point, the pro-tax Liberal Values takes an almost statist position:
The question isn’t cheating but who the Clintons are indebted to for their sudden fortune, and what they might do in return for them. Are there pardons or political appointments for sale?
Oh my God! Is the pro-tax Liberal Values blog kidding? So much for the principle of the presumption of innocence. Is Liberal Values really FOR a Lack of Financial Privacy?
The broad reach of the income tax leads to invasions of financial privacy. The IRS can access myriad personal information, such as mortgage records, credit card data, phone records, banking and investment accounts, data on property transactions, and personal correspondence . . . and this . . . doesn't trouble Liberal Values?
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."
What pro-tax Liberal Values should do is disclose, on it's own blog, or on this one, all the financial information the IRS has collected on the author over the years Give it all up to public scrutiny and discussion, right here, right now, just to make sure, you know, that Liberal Value's support for Obama is pure and clean
What's pure and clean? That's not for Liberal Values to decide -- that's for us, the "people" and self proclaimed experts (like me), to decide. I'm quite sure Liberal Values would be fully comfortable with this.
. . . on the other hand, I guess the real value of this demand for voluntary disclosure is an opportunity to smear and discredit by innuendo. Given that Obama was not able to deliver a knock out punch to HRC on Tuesday, I suppose this is the smart way to go now . . .
. . . man, thanks pro-tax Liberal Values -- you actually got to me to come to HRC's defense, but at least it's on some "real" principles . . .
If these are "Liberal Values," the hell with those values.
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