Disclosure, my Friends…

I don’t give a rat’s ass about McCain, nor do I think most Siren’s readers do– but this is a major fast one he is trying to pull & it’s good to be informed.

John McCain & his Stepford wife Cindy.
John McCain, my friends, is all about telling the truth, well at least half of it.

John and Cindy McCain filed separate tax returns. His return does not include dividends, capital gains, interest and other income that went only to her. The campaign cites privacy concerns in not releasing her data.

Well, sure it’s important to keep the fact that you are filthy rich private, my friends, so you can talk to the American people as if they were friends & you can relate to the struggles of “everyman”.

The LA Times, reports:

John McCain reported income of $405,409 last year, but the money he spent on charitable contributions, wages to household staff, alimony and taxes ate up most of that.

McCain on Friday released his 2007 and 2006 tax returns, but not those of his wife, whose income from ownership of a beer distributor far exceeds $1 million, according to financial disclosure statements filed previously in the Senate.

McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, has never before released his tax returns. Outside groups estimate the McCains’ combined wealth to be between $28 million and $100 million.

Democratic presidential contenders Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama filed joint returns with their spouses, providing a clearer picture of their finances. Those returns, dating to 2000, were recently released.

“John McCain’s lack of transparency is troubling and raises questions about what he’s hiding,” Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said in a statement Friday.

John and Cindy McCain,married since 1980, file separate tax returns and hold a wide range of assets separately. The McCain campaign said Cindy McCain would not release her tax returns in “the interest of protecting the privacy of her children.” Well sure Cindy, it’s all about the children.

Well, my friends, The McCains own four homes across the nation and employ a staff of at least four that in 2007 cost about $273,000, half of which was listed on the senator’s tax return. McCain and his wife’s properties, all held mortgage-free, include their creek-side ranch outside Sedona, Ariz. In 2006, they purchased a $4.7-million condo in Phoenix; and in 2004, she bought a $2.6-million beachfront property near the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego County, according to property records.

Despite the large real estate holdings and his wife’s business empire, the senator appears to own few income-producing assets individually. In 2007, he reported interest income of just $48 and dividends of $74. (everybody together– Awwwww) Such a plain simple man.

Not listed on his return, but disclosed separately, was $58,358 that McCain received in a tax-free Navy pension.

Asked whether his wife was supporting him, McCain’s campaign staff offered a separate income calculation for 2007 showing that the senator’s surplus income after expenses amounted to about $64,000 and suggested that he was providing for himself.

By contrast, Cindy McCain reported assets of more than $1 million in a single Chase Bank account and assets of up to $1 million in each of about three dozen accounts and investments, according to a 2006 Senate financial disclosure report.

Cindy McCain inherited ownership of Hensley & Co., said to be the nation’s third-largest Anheuser-Busch distributor with sales estimated at $178 million, from her late father, James Hensley, according to financial information company Dun & Bradstreet.

Judging only by his returns, McCain would seem to have the lowest income of the three candidates for the presidency. So there you have it folks– never mind those millions in the wife’s tax returns, and the millions of dollars of 4 different places to live, Let’s just say I don’t think it is the children they are protecting, they don’t want to disclose they are for sure in the “HAVES” group of the elite ultra wealthy. No my friends, they would like you to think simple, humble John McCain makes less than both Democratic candidates. A champion of understanding what the average person endures, financially.

Clinton earned $20.4 million in 2007 and Obama $4.2 million, thanks mostly to books the two candidates wrote. But with his wife’s money included, McCain is ranked by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics as the 19th-wealthiest member of Congress.

McCain paid $5,413 in alternative minimum tax, an assessment hitting more and more middle-class Americans and one that the senator wants to eliminate. The return also shows McCain paid $17,700 in alimony to his first wife, Carol, whom he divorced in 1980. Gosh John, we hope you & the wife can take that $5 thousand dollar hit of taxes.
Perhaps your staff will allow you to cry on their shoulders in one of your mansions? Rough life-my friend.

So there is the story of the haves– as for everyone else–(my friends)~