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Why?
Other than voyeurism I've never understood why anyone needs to see a candidate's tax returns. Unless they are doing something illegal, which isn't going to be obvious on their returns, who cares? This is one more reason we never get good candidates running in many races - who wants to expose that kind of information?
In politics, it's important
In politics, it's important to know where the money's coming from, because that's going to influence their actions in office. It also gives us some insight into how much they can understand and represent the troubles of each income bracket.
Dollas, taxes
Agree it's mere voyeurism.
Don't agree that the tax returns help us understand candidates better because we 'know the money's coming from.' It's not as if they're listing "receipts from illegal narcotic diet pill sales" or "trafficking plague rats," let alone "bribes from asphalt cartels." It's all "I draw a salary. I get cash from the bond market. I sold a couch on Craigslist." Pols are allowed to draw salaries. Does knowing a candidate does legal work tell us how he'd be as a mayor? Does knowing one draws a pension give us insight into his parks-and-rec policy? (Similarly, I've never been convinced campaign-finance reports are terrifically insightful. No one lists "cash some guy slipped me in a bar" on the forms.)
Also, never been convinced that a pol's income necessarily defines his outlook toward his own kind, else the Kennedys would have been Reaganites, and dirt-poor Tea Partiers would be Obamabots.
Hmmm
Am I the only one who finds it rather troubling seeing how a mid-level nonprofit manager pulls in as nearly as much as a big-shot union boss? Do all those Newbury st clipboard warriors know (or care) where the money is going?
fatal blow
Tying Walczak to Samuel Gompers might be the fatal blow to his candidacy.
So....
You'd only vote for someone in your income bracket? One can understand the troubles of an income bracket without actually being in that income bracket.
Because
We need to root out the evil 1%. Don't you know it's wrong to make "too much" money?
(I obviously agree with you. How much one makes is none of my business and really shouldn't factor into voting decisions.)
Every candidate is a 1%er
They are the 1% of life-long Boston political hacks. Vote El Pres!
Damn these frat boy trolls.
Damn these frat boy trolls.
Frat Boy
No! Go take a lap in your Prius and/or Forester!
TROLL?
Maybe you can make some more distasteful comments about the Marathon Bombings...
Whoa, I think you are
Whoa, I think you are confusing me with someone else. I only say distasteful things about cops and whitey.
So you're not only a
Troll, you're a racist! Thanks....
Because identity politics,
Because identity politics, class warfare, and the politics of envy always lead to healthy outcomes in public discourse and public policy. Pay no attention to the other cities lying in ruin from people squabbling over such distractions in Byzantine power games, this is good for Boston. Just like freeways and lead paint!
Hmmm
How the Herald fails to mention Portnoy's net worth at $2 million, internet dollars, of course, is mind bottling.
Portnoy's Mind in a bottle
Yes - they should probably do that to Portnoy - put his mind in a bottle and study it after he's dead - for a lot of reasons.
Again who cares - maybe I'd care if he said he were running a serious campaign - serious enough to throw say a quarter of that net worth at actually running a campaign instead of a publicity stunt.
Hey - I like the mindless crap over a sandwich when there's little else to read - but otherwise...
I think voters deserve to
I think voters deserve to know what other jobs our elected officials hold and how much they are paid from them. And not just the one year before they run for mayor.
Which candidate had his law firm dissolved before announcing for mayor? Clue: He wasn't working just for food the whole time he was on the CC.
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