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March 26th, 2008

Obama Releases Tax Returns, Challenges Clinton To Do the Same

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has released seven years of his tax individual returns this week.
The Obama family reported income of $1.65 million in 2005 and nearly $1 million in 2006. During that same period, the family made $137,622 in charitable donations.
Prior to 2005, the family seems to have a different financial picture. […]

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May 16th, 2007

When A Candidate A-tax

I know, it’s a cheesy title, but I’m banging this out in the middle of a really busy day. Notwithstanding the Philadelphia primaries yesterday (for which I fully intend to follow-up with some en pointe tax questions), I was on the phone this morning with Governor Huckabee’s office getting some good feedback on his […]

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May 10th, 2007

Reality Bytes.

It’s easy to listen to a few quick sound bytes from the presidential candidates and get confused. It’s also understandable - they have a lot to say and not a lot of time to say it.
Following my review of the debates for the GOP and the Dems, I thought I would offer each of […]

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November 8th, 2006

Housecleaning

Nobody wants a partisan tax blogger. It’s so… impolitic, if you will. So, I’m not going to offer any real commentary about the election on yesterday in terms of winners and losers. You can do your own Wednesday morning quarterbacking.
That said, the face of the House has changed drastically with the loss of 27 seats […]

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