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April 18th, 2008

Presidential Candidates: Where do they stand on taxes?

This week - in the midst of a busy tax season - I wrote a guest post for One Vote Matters. It’s a quick and dirty summary of where the presidential candidates stand on tax issues. You can read the entire post here.
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April 18th, 2008

How much money do you need to make to be President?

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has released his tax return for the 2007 tax year showing that together with his wife, the Obamas earned $4.2 million. A whopping $4 million of that income was in the form of royalties from the sale of his books. Other income includes Obama’s Senate salary of $157,102 […]

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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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March 19th, 2008

Has Obama Changed the Race?

If you had asked me, before today, what the single most important issue would be in the upcoming presidential election, I would have said the economy, hands down. For purposes of the election, it’s more important to voters than Iraq, than health care, than the environment (though clearly those issues are intertwined with the […]

By Kelly -- 4 comments