David Collins: Will candidates for governor release their tax returns?
This tradition, locally and nationally, goes back decades but was upended a bit in 2016 when presidential candidate
I was planning to ask the campaigns of all four candidates who have so far secured a place on the ballot for
Something I've said?
Presumably they will sooner or later be asked in a prominent public setting, as the debate season unfolds.
Candidates in
Lamont's spokesman at the time accused Lieberman, who had released five years of tax returns, of playing "gotcha politics" and called the whole issue "B.S." Here's hoping Lamont is a little more transparent at the outset in this race.
Who knows how Republican
Something tells me Stefanowski, who says he doesn't believe in the minimum wage, is not going to want to be forthcoming about how he makes his money, income far above the realm of minimum wage earners, and what taxes he pays.
Another reluctant releaser was Republican
It turns out Foley, a wealthy candidate who spent
Of course, no candidate who paid no federal income tax for three years, no matter how proper the calculations, would want to explain that to voters.
Lamont, another rich self-funding candidate, might have been shy about releasing his returns in 2006, not because he paid so little in taxes but because he paid so much. The tax information he did release indicated that much more of the income came from investments other than the cable television business he makes the centerpiece of his pitch as being a successful businessman.
Lamont, who comes from a wealthy family, earned
Lamont reported a salary of
The candidates apparently aren't interested in talking to me. But if you see them, be sure and ask when they plan to release their returns or find out if they plan to pull a Trump on this longstanding tradition.
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