One of the results of this campaign was that future candidate will be able to refuse to disclose as much of their tax returns as candidates did in past years. The reason: despite all the talk that it would hurt him politically or that he’d have to do it, Mitt Romney never released more tax information and has suffered no consequences. Is that a fair statement? Some varying views HERE.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.