Pot meet Kettle. Kettle meet Pot

A few weeks ago, in a heated discussion (an in person discussion no less), someone called me a great big blowhard.  My response was to point out that this was worse than the pot calling the kettle black, it was more like a really dark black pot calling a kettle black.

Now an equivalent situation has come up in the Republican presidential campaign.  During the GOP debate this past week, Senator Marco Rubio and Senator Ted Cruz castigated Donald Trump for failing to release his income tax returns.

Now the two senators have claimed to release their tax returns, but they really haven't.  The 2014 tax return for Senator Cruz is only the Form 1040 itself.  None of the supporting schedules or forms.  Where is the Schedule C?  Where is the Schedule A, so we can see just how Senator Cruz's charitable contributions were directed, if any?  The Schedule H on which the Cruz family paid nearly $39,000 in household employee taxes would be highly interesting.

Also interesting is the fact that Hillary Clinton has released full income tax returns, not just the two page Form 1040.  Mitt Romney did take his own sweet time releasing his tax returns during the 2012 presidential campaign, but when he did he released hundreds of pages of documents.  Every single page of each tax return.  However we can conclude from the limited Cruz tax forms release that he doesn't quite tithe as he discusses on the campaign trail. 

To be fair, Senator Rubio also released only the two page Form 1040s for 2010 through 2014.  He and Senator Cruz need to release their entire tax returns or shut up about what Donald Trump has and hasn't released.