Has he releases his tax returns, yet, or are all the recent stories in preparation

[question everything]

that - gasp - our "socialist" haranguing against millionaires and the 1% is one of them?

[lapucelle]

1. BS has not released his taxes yet, but BS admitted that he is part of the millionaire class

in an interview with the New York Times.

Reminded that he is a millionaire, he did not shirk from the description.

“I wrote a best-selling book,” he declared. “If you write a best-selling book, you can be a millionaire, too.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/us/politics/bernie-sanders-millionaire-net-worth-taxes.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FSanders%2C%20Bernard&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=collection

[theophilus]

2. Lol. That Bernie is a scamp! That takes me back to my youth

in Texas where good ol' Eddie Chiles used to say, "If you don't have an oil well....get one!" I guess he's dead now. Oh, well.

[lapucelle]

3. Wow...that's pretty harsh.

scamp
a wicked or worthless person; a rogue

scamp
an unscrupulous and often mischievous person; rascal; rogue; scalawag.

[theophilus]

13. Naw, not harsh at all. I love Bernie but he can act like a rascal when his

dander is up. I can too. So can we all. I am sure he is spending his money wisely. I just thought his response was a bit "cheeky" I apologize for any hurt feelin's. Bernie is great. Super ideas. I voted for him on the last go round.

[lapucelle]

14. ...

rascal (noun)
1 : a mean, unprincipled, or dishonest person
2 : a mischievous person or animal

Synonyms for rascal
baddie (or baddy), beast, brute, caitiff, devil, evildoer, fiend, heavy, hound, knave, meanie (also meany), miscreant, monster, nazi, no-good, rapscallion, reprobate, rogue, savage, scalawag (or scallywag), scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, varlet, villain, wretch

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rascal#synonyms

[Cha]

17. Mahalo for those

accurate definitions, lapucelle

[lapucelle]

20. I wouldn't find it reassuring if we had a president who was described as a scamp or a rascal.

We need a competent president who inspires confidence, not bemusement.

Mahalo, my friend!

[LakeArenal]

31. The comment was colloquial.

[Cha]

32. Exactly! And, I am Not

amused.

Hoa Aloha, lapucelle

[delisen]

26. I like "varlet."

[question everything]

34. Running as a Democrat while not being one - yes, unprincipled, dishonest

[LakeArenal]

28. Some folks will parse every word.

Perpetually offended.

Scamp has a vernacular meaning.

[BlueFlorida]

5. Also sounds like Marie Antoinette. nt

[BannonsLiver]

24. "Let them eat book deals."

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[George II]

6. He has been part of the 1% for at least two years, maybe more. As for the "bestselling book"....

....many of them were sold to the promoters of his speaking tour last year so they could hand them out at his appearances, one copy for each ticket purchased. At his appearance early in the year tickets were going for about $60 including a copy of the book. Members of the House and Senate are prohibited from getting paid for speaking appearances but are permitted to receive royalties for book sales.

[NurseJackie]

10. Ah... that's a very slick way to subvert the rules prohibiting payments to lawmakers.

Members of the House and Senate are prohibited from getting paid for speaking appearances but are permitted to receive royalties for book sales.

Ah... that's a very slick way to subvert the rules prohibiting payments to lawmakers.

Does that same prohibition apply to donations to the now-defunct Sanders Institute? I know it was described as a "think-tank" but it's always been unclear to me what good purpose it actually served.

[WeekiWater]

16. Weren't he and Jane bringing in over 600,00...

For multiple years ten to fifteen years ago? I’ve been saying that I think that is why he delayed for three years. It gets them past Janes major earning years. I believe their household has hit 1% annual earnings for numerous years, not just in the last three years.

[SidDithers]

22. It gets them past the income Jane made on Bernie's 2006 campaign..nt

Sid

[delisen]

27. Bernie s a savvy capitalist. Just a late bloomer.

[MyNameGoesHere]

19. There's a take on how to succeed

Us 99% just need to write a best selling book to join others at the trough.

[delisen]

30. If we all write books, and then we all buy each others books

will we all become multimillionaires?

....or will it work more like an Away pyramid scheme?

[BlueFlorida]

4. We'll know in 2 days which Monday he was talking about nt

[artislife]

7. Have you a calendar?

Or did you think we needed one more thread (retread) about this?

[question everything]

8. As many threads as we can and should

Though I doubt that his loyalists here will ever change their minds.

[SidDithers]

23. LOL...

You came back.

Sid

[Blue_true]

9. Does look like the Bernie camp is "softening" up the ground, doesn't it?

We had been told that Bernie was an every man who bore bad suits and shoes. But Bernie was likely a millionaire several years ago, well before any book deals. Yet, he continued to treat people that work for an honest million like pariahs.

[W_HAMILTON]

12. I figured as much...

...when he went from railing against "the millionaires and the billionaires" to just "the billionaires," and from railing against "the 1%" to "the one-tenth of 1%," lol.


If a miracle occurs and we ever get to see both Sanders's and Trump's tax returns, I bet dollars to pesos that there will be at least one year that Sanders ended up making more money than Trump. It's crazy when you think about it. One doesn't want to show his taxes because it would reveal him to be poorer than everyone expected, while the other didn't want to show his taxes because it would reveal him to be richer than everyone expected.

[JI7]

11. he is going to release 10 years of them on Monday

[NurseJackie]

21. I remain skeptical. I simply can't trust him...

I remain skeptical. I simply can't trust him to be prompt after so many other delays and excuses... excuses and delays.

[WeekiWater]

15. We know he is worth millions.

It’s not necessary to have his taxes to answer that question.

[Cha]

18. Sure we need to see his Full Transparency

on 10 years of taxes.

No exceptions.

[comradebillyboy]

25. My corgi is in the back yard chasing unicorns. She'll catch one

when BS shows that kind of transparency.

[lsewpershad]

29. Go away

Troll.

[Cha]

33. You need to look in the mirror before you

insult the OP with a personal attack.