The two hours isn't much time, but it's surely ample to check out the details of Simon's tax shelters, which seems to be the issue.
Has anyone outside of the press seen Davis' tax returns? How does one get to see them as a private individual? I'm curious because as far as I can tell, Davis' disclosure standards aren't that different from Simon's.
In the end, though, I'm rather nonplussed at the vapidity of this issue. Here we have the state going downhill fast, and all Davis can do to defend himself is say his opponent had tax shelters.
That's pretty pathetic, if anyone's really paying attention.
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Has anyone in the press even reported on the contents? We've all heard that Al Gore paid a relatively small amount to charity or that Clinton counted donations of old underwear for charitable tax deductions, but what about Gray Davis? I'm sure Bill Simon gave much more to charity than Davis did, because Simon is involved with charities; maybe the tax returns can prove this, if the newspapers report the results of their examinations of Simon's tax returns.
Here we have the state going downhill fast, and all Davis can do to defend himself is say his opponent had tax shelters.
Evidently, the media have fallen for his distraction techniques. I really want them to concentrate on the real issues now, like that $11.1 billion bond issuance, the $24 billion deficit, the $100 billion budget, and all the tax increases and creative accounting required to bankroll the excess government programs and poor decisions.
One of Davis' TV commercials ends with a line that prompts this question:
If Gray Davis can't run California, how can he run California?