Well it would seem that turnabout is fair play with Democratic National Committee (DNC) chief Debbie Wizzerman Schultz now being called on to cough up her own personal income tax returns. The request has been made by her congressional opponent, Republican Karen Harrington of Florida. Ms. Harrington's campaign writes, “This week millions of taxpaying Americans will fulfill their requirement of filing their tax returns by paying any and all taxes due to the federal government.” Adding, “Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been asking Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney to release his 2011 tax return even after Governor Romney released his 2010 tax return.” Sleazy characters like Wizzerman Schultz always seem to think that they are somehow entitled to make all manner of demands without ever having to comply to any of demands made upon them by others.
Anyway, Ms. Harrington's campaign does go on to say, “Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz’s request of Governor Romney to release his tax returns screams of hypocrisy, because to the best of our knowledge, Congresswoman Wasserman Schultz has never released a single tax return of her own. As a member of Congress, she is required to release a yearly ‘financial disclosure,’ this yearly disclosure is not a tax return." It goes on to say that, “While asking for Governor Romney to release his past tax returns, and in keeping with the spirit of President Obama’s call for ‘full transparency,’ we ask Congressman Wasserman Schultz to release her own tax returns.” It would seem that transparency means different things to different people. And it is never meant to be applicable to anyone with a (D) after their name. After all, Democrats are to be considered as being above such silly nonsense.
There doesn't appear to any record anywhere of Wizzerman Schultz ever having released any of her personal income tax returns, even though, as the Harrington campaign points out, members of Congress are required to disclose assets, holdings, and various other financial information. Wizzerman Schultz has an annual salary of $174,000, which is the standard rate for members of Congress. As newsbusters.org notes, “her Congressional salary is more than three times greater than the median salary for individuals in her own district (FL-20) which is $54,194.” Ms. Harrington’s request comes at a time when Democrats, Wizzerman Schultz included, have been waging a war on taxes, trying to get Romney to release his financial records going back 17 years. All this at a time when Democrats, including Barry "Almighty", are pushing for increased taxes through what's fondly, or not so fondly, being referred to as the Buffett Rule.
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