Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in Bitcoins

Re:Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in... by goggles99 on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @05:23PM (#4481535)

>Obama, on the other hand, has released tax returns going back to 2000.

Pelosi won't release her tax returns because she was only the 3rd most powerful person in the US government...

She jokes that she will release them when she runs for president.

I think that all these crooks in government be required to release all of their financial information. They need to be held accountable to us the us public. After all - they work for us. We need transparency, we need to see when they are taking kickbacks or making side deals, bribes ETC.

What is your take on this?

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Re:Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in... by MartinCron on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @05:30PM (#4481565)

My take is that this little token of transparency doesn't really matter all that much. It's not like there's a line item on the 1040 for "bribe income". Fixing the transparency and disclosure requirements for super-pacs would probably be even more valuable than opening up everyone's taxes, which does have personal privacy implications.

Nancy Pelosi, like Romney, is making a strategic decision not to disclose because she sees the drawbacks as greater than the benefits of doing so. And just like with Romney's taxes, or the Obama's "short form" birth certificate, I'm not going to jump to the conclusion that anyone has something to hide

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Re:Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in... by jcheng on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @06:50PM (#4481913)

> It's not like there's a line item on the 1040 for "bribe income"

Amusingly: http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html#d0e33264 http://www.irs.gov/publications/p17/ch12.html#d0e34287

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Re:Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in... by rprasad on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @07:29PM (#4482052)

There is a line for bribe income. You include it as "other income" and must provide an attached statement describing each of the income items that are included in "other income".

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Re:Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in... by taligent on Wednesday September 05, 2012 @10:35PM (#4482606)

Obama released his long form birth certificate and the Hawaii Department of Health certified it.

What more could he possibly do ?

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Re:Hacker holds alleged Romney tax returns ransom for $1M in... by MartinCron on Thursday September 06, 2012 @12:51AM (#4482889)

You missed my point, which is that people jump to the "they must be hiding something" conclusion too readily. I don't doubt, for a second, where and when our president was born.

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