Update: Cindy McCain releases summary of taxes: See Comments:-------------------
by Wes Vernon: Editorial writers and self-appointed "watchdogs" are demanding that Cindy McCain release her tax returns. In itself, the expectation that she "owes" it to the "public" to share her financial business going back several years is an unwarranted intrusion. What it says about a larger issue — i.e., politicians regulating politicians' campaigns against each other — reveals the absurd, if not the outrageous. . . . Cindy McCain is the heiress to Hensley and Co., a major beer distributor for Anheuser-Busch. She has wisely chosen to file separate returns from those of her husband, Senator John McCain. She possessed the assets before she married him. She need not open up her entire financial life to the world. "This is a privacy issue," the spouse of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee declares. "My husband is the candidate."
Parenthetically, one might ask where are the raging feminists in our midst who wail that a woman should "be her own person," and not be tied down by her husband. Hypocrisy enters the picture big-time when the self-righteous NOW-types fail to rise to the defense of a woman who files her own returns and refuses to make them public essentially on the grounds that being married to a presidential candidate does not deprive her of her own personhood. But apparently (surprise!) a different standard applies if the woman in question is anywhere to the right of — say — Barbara Boxer. Read More: Post-Watergate morality: enough already!
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