Tax Returns and Sanctimonious Hypocrites

Predictably, a huge, featured AP/AOL story today is that Cindy McCain says that she will "never" release her tax returns.  You may wait a long time before you hear lefitist feminists defend her right to take that position, however, as they are leftists before they are feminists. 

Dirty little secret:  NO candidate, or candidate's spouse, should release his or her tax returns.  The idea that we need to know that the Clintons make 100 million dollars, or whatever, is ridiculous. 

I state it absolutely:  The people at the truly despicable Associated Press are SANCTIMONIOUS HYPOCRITES that make Elmer Gantry look like an honest saint. These are the people that would not say anything about Jeremiah Wright, until Barack Obama was finally froced to make a speech about it (Jeremiah Wrigtht being a much more legitimate "issue" than a wife's tax returns--NOT because he endorsed Obama but because Obama endorsed HIM for 20 years). 

So much for wanting to talk about "real issues".  I state this absolutely:  The Associated Press is NOT interested in "real issues",  and AOL is not.  The primary agent today of the "politics of personal destrustion" is the mainstream media.  This story has to do with two things:  AGENDA and SELF-INTEREST (the media wants to have things like tax returns to fish around in--see first sentence of this paragraph).

Let me import anohter one of those comments from AOL to illustrate to you the agenda behind this story, as well as to illustrate how stupid AGENDA makes people:

"84K in taxes on 405K Income, doesn't that work out to about 15%.
I thought tax returns WERE public information"

What can you say about someone who would say something as STUPID as the above?  First, they are probably as much of a sanctimonious hypcrite as the people of the Associated Press and AOL "News". 

Second, it is objectively FALSE that tax returns are "public information".  Under the laws of the United States, and every state of which I am aware, they are very PRIVATE, confidential information.

In Texas (where I was a civil attorney for more than 30 years), for example, your tax return is confidential even if you are a party to a civil lawsuit (although isolated information on the tax return may be discoverable, IF it is directly relevant to an issue in the civil lawsuit). 

Note that the above person also obviously flunked math.   84k is actually more than 20% of 405k (.2 times 400.000 is 80,000, which you should be able to figure in your head).  As I state above:  AGENDA makes you STUPID.

P.S.  I really do not have much of an agenda here, at least in terms of favoring McCain.  I still would NOT vote for John McCain for dogcatcher of Mt. Ida (the Arkansas town of less than 1,000 people where I spent most of the firtst 12 years of my life)--much less for President of the United States.