I've noticed several mentions in the press of senior Clinton staff saying that Hillary will release her tax returns when other Americans do so, near April 15. Check out what senior adviser to the Hillary campaign Ann Lewis said the other day about this issue:
"Since I have not personally begun to do my tax returns for this year, I suspect that most Ohio voters are a lot like me, which is, they've still begun to think that they've got to pull all their records, I'm not sure how much time they're gonna spend looking at everybody else's tax returns in the next 3 days."
The subtle implication being "come on, who HAS finished this year's taxes this early?!" In addition, Hillary's staff keeps saying that her returns will be released at the "customary" time, around April 15. Well, yes, that's the customary time for THIS year's taxes to be finished. But this April 15 is not the customary time to complete your taxes for 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006, unless you're Leona Helmsley. Hillary's tax returns for those years were completed April 15 years ago, they've never been released, and a simple visit to a Kinkos can get them out to the public right now. Cute answers implying that we're simply talking about this year's returns won't cut it. And it's troublesome that the campaign is trying to confuse the public with their answers. No one can explain why she won't release the papers now.
