CLEVELAND, Ohio – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Friday released her 2015 tax return, adding to a large stack of tax documents she’s already made public.
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In 2015, the Clintons made $1 million in charitable contributions, mostly to the Clinton Foundation; former President Bill Clinton brought in almost $5.3 million in speaking fees; and the former secretary of state reported income of $3 million from publisher Simon & Schuster for her book on her tenure at the State Department.
Workers’ anxiety over trade deals has become a central theme in the 2016 election, and Clinton rejected the portrait Trump has painted that she is only pretending not to favor the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a planned deal which she had praised when she was secretary of state in President Barack Obama’s first term but has opposed as a candidate for the presidency. And on Friday, her vice presidential pick, Tim Kaine, followed suit, and released his tax returns for the last decade.
Trump and his lawyers have said his returns are under audit by the Internal Revenue Service and that they reveal little.
As she has for months, Clinton hit Trump Thursday for outsourcing his companies and “stiffing” small businesses.
Since launching his White House campaign in June 2015, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has several times walked back comments that got him in hot water.
“These numbers point to extraordinary potential for Hillary Clinton to garner a significant proportion of the youth vote this November”, CIRCLE found, “but they are not a guarantee that young people will turn out to vote”. They paid a federal effective tax rate of 20.3 percent in 2015. “Words matter my friends, and if you are running to be president or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences”, Clinton said.
The latest tax return shows the Clintons made far less than the almost $28 million they did in 2014.
By opening up her IRS documents again, as presidential candidates from both parties have done for some four decades, Clinton may tiresome the effect of any attacks over her lucre. Perhaps the Trump campaign is gambling that ads this far ahead of Election Day don’t have much effect, so he might as well wait until September and then unleash a very big blitz.
Trump offered his economic vision in a speech in Detroit on Monday.
“He’d pay a lower rate than millions of middle-class families”, she said.
‘Made up story by CNN is a hoax, ‘ Trump continued.
Her appearance follows a Trump speech on the economy, also in MI, on Monday.
“Here’s a pretty incredible fact: There is a non-zero chance that Donald Trump isn’t paying (asterisk) any (asterisk) taxes”, Clinton tweeted, just minutes after releasing her own returns.
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“Yesterday (Tuesday), we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments from Donald Trump that crossed the line”.
