Release those Returns!

Paul Krugman / Robin Wells:
I'm looking at you two kids!

Oh, and don’t give me the argument that private equity is special because it’s a risky business, in which you put in a lot of effort for an uncertain return. So is any kind of small business venture; and so, as it happens, is textbook writing. Yet small businessmen and textbook authors pay normal tax rates.

Don't we readers deserve to know the personal finances, and tax rates, of he who would assume such an important fiscal position? (the Nobel Prize winner, not the yogini, but they're a package deal, taxwise, no?)

If we call for Mitt to tell all,
why not do the same for the pundits, the economic advisers, and all those who would play poor, and pretend they're in this for the working class.

Something tells me, Mr. Krugman won't release. Why? Because he's an elite who took home Enron money, over a million in "prize winnings", and gets more than $20K for an hours work ... predicting and pontificating.

Eh. To each his own, as they say.
But if he won't leave other men rest, and demands to know personal details, let Paulie and the second wife go first? You show us yours, and then demand the Romneys show you theirs. Deal?

*I'd also be curious to know what kind of money Paul's parents collect in Social Security -- you know, that "safety net" program for the struggling elderly, who don't have wealthy family to fall back on.

Remember: the more you and yours take out today, the less that will be there tomorrow, when the truly needy arrive with their hands out, only to find that it was already pre-redistributed to the parents of the wealthy liberal elite, who surely could afford by now to support their own...