Hillary Clinton released her tax returns for the years 2000 to 2006 late Friday afternoon, ending weeks of speculation over her delay in making them public.
“The Clintons have now made public thirty years of tax returns, a record matched by few people in public 
service,” spokesman Jay Carson said in a statement. “None of Hillary Clinton's presidential opponents have revealed anything close to this amount of personal financial information.”
The campaign said the records showed Bill and Hillary Clinton had paid more than $33.7 million in federal taxes on a joint income of $109 million and donated $10.2 million to charities over the past eight years.
The New York senator had initially said that she would not release them unless she was the Democratic nominee. But at a debate shortly before the March 4 primaries, she said she would consider releasing them "even earlier," though she did not name a precise date.
Ok, so after telling everyone she wouldn't do it until she's the Democratic nominee, she now reverses course and releases her tax information? Give you a guess as to why. If she was in the lead, she'd say she'd do it once she was the nominee, then turn around and stall until after the election and hope everyone would forget it.
It's not a character trait of openness and honesty, it's a tactic to gain advantage. $109 million over 7 years? That's a LOT of money.
Anyone else think that it's a might bit shady? Sure, Bill was making a mint on his speaking engagements, but to make that much money in such a short amount of time raises some red flags for me.
Travis
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