Hillary Releases Taxes, Pressures Trump
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From the Left
3 Reasons We Care About Politicians' TaxesIf it's Friday in politics, there's the potential for a news dump.
This Friday, that means tax returns. The Clinton campaign, in an effort to pressure Donald Trump into releasing his taxes, released the Clintons' 2015 numbers. The Clintons made $10.6 million combined, mostly from speeches, and paid an effective federal tax rate of 34.2 percent. Clinton's vice presidential candidate, Tim Kaine, also released 10 years' returns. In 2015, Kaine made about $313,000 and paid a 16.1 percent tax rate. (Here are all the tax returns released by the Clinton campaign.)
From the Right
Trump Campaign on Hillary's Tax Drop: 'Distraction' From Email ScandalDonald Trump's campaign Friday slammed the release of Hillary Clinton's taxes as merely "an attempt at distraction and misdirection" from the Democratic nominee's email scandal.
"Hillary Clinton has turned over the only records nobody wants to see from her," said spokesman Jason Miller. "The American public wants to see the 33,000 emails she deleted to obstruct an FBI investigation.
From the Left
Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine Show New Tax Returns, Pressuring Donald TrumpHillary Clinton and her running mate, Tim Kaine, released a new batch of their own income tax returns on Friday, ratcheting up the pressure on her opponent, Donald J. Trump, to begin making public his own forms.
The newest tax return of Mrs. Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, showed an adjusted gross income of $10.6 million for 2015, a large drop from previous years but still enough to place them in the top 0.1
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