My 2003 1040 was 46 pages long. If I showed you only the top two pages (which concentrate on salary income), you'd be missing mid six figures of my earnings.
I say this not to brag, as I'm certain that *many* FReepers make far more than me, but rather, I mention this to illustrate that *vast* amounts of money are excluded from those first two pages, including K-1 income, royalty income, foreign income, some dividend income, personal "corporate" income, mineral income, farm/ranch income, rental income, etc.
How can we tell if she is using her husband's dreaded "Benedict Arnold" companies to shield her from U.S. taxes if she doesn't show us all of her 1040 pages?
She is a citizen of Mozambique, yes?? Or does she maintain dual citizenship with the U.S.?? How will we know without seeing her entire tax return?
Mrs. Hienz-Kerry says that she wants to keep those other pages private to shield her children from the media, but that desire conflicts with the Kerry-Edwards Campaign spokeswoman Mary Beth Cahill saying (in response to Senator Kerry and Senator Edwards both dragging Ms. Cheney's personal sex life into the public limelight) that the personal lives of the children of the candidates are "fair game."
Certainly the liberal news media insisted upon seeing *every* page of VP Nelson Rockefeller's tax returns in 1974. Rockefeller was not permitted to get away with merely releasing his top two pages of his 1040.
Is there a double standard in play here? One for rich Republicans versus another for rich Democrats?