John McCain Refuses to Release his Wife’s Tax Records
In a move that seems quite a bit John Kerry-esque, John McCain has refused to release his wife’s tax records. This is a man who claims he wants to bring “transparency” back to Washington.
John McCain on Friday faced accusations of hypocrisy for failing to disclose his wife’s tax records, despite his promise to bring greater transparency and accountability to government.
Transparency and accountability indeed, but only when it applies to other people it seems. McCain has released his own tax records, he files separately from his wife, but refuses to release his wife’s to protect the privacy of their children. This excuse doesn’t fly when it comes to Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington who said:
“McCain has been the most outspoken about ethics so he is held to a particularly high standard of transparency,”
If John McCain wants to put his money, pardon the pun, where his mouth is then it is time for him to do what John Kerry finally did, and what Hillary Clinton finally did and release the tax records. This whole do as I say not as I do attitude makes John McCain come off as a lecturing parent figure and not a leader of the free world.
In a move years ago that was also John Kerry-esque John McCain left his wife for a rich heiress and joined the senate. The parallels are striking. Not releasing his wife’s tax records shows us an elitist attitude, the same elitist attitude he is trying to pin on Obama and Clinton. The same elitist attitude of John Kerry. But their records have been made public, when will yours be Senator McCain?
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privacy, my friend, we are all entitled to it
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Not when he publicly attacks the other candidates for not revealing the their own tax returns and those of their spouses..
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So, do you think he will get that $600 dollars Bush promised?
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That’s a good question, I wonder if he will get the $600? And it’s more than promised, the checks are in the mail. I just wonder if (and I’m not sticking up for McCain) he is thinking that his wife’s tax records should be private since she is not running for anything. But again he already ruined that with his “transparency” talk.
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Because of his wife’s fortune John McCain is considered the richest person in the senate, I don’t think he qualifies, but you never know.
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They file separate returns .. it is not a public matter. His wife is not running for president. If it were his returns not being released that would be an issue. I see no issue here other than people who want to make a big deal about nothing. This is the same old story .. if you work hard and are successful the have-nots want to take what you have or make it sound like you got it at the expense of the have-nots. Get over it.
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