I'll probably mark my ballot for Bernie Sanders. I find it hard to believe he can beat Hillary and just as hard (despite some polls) to believe he'd do better against Trump. But I do like the idea that America is ready for more liberal candidates and the better he does, the more that will be accepted. So that's how I guess I'll vote — but like Amanda Marcotte, I wish Bernie would get over this idea that sinister forces and corruption are the only reasons in the world anyone is not voting for Bernie Sanders.
In the meantime, Dana Milbank discusses two reasons that Donald Trump refuses to release his taxes. One is that they will show that he ain't as rich as he claims. The other is that it will show that via the many loopholes available to those in the realty biz, Trump has been paying little or nothing in taxes. Either of these would be pretty damaging to his campaign.
Absolutely no one buys the reason he gives, which is that he's currently under an I.R.S. audit. A guy in as many businesses as Trump is probably always under an audit for something and that never stops anyone else from releasing tax info. The only kinda-legit reason I can imagine for not releasing this tax data, as he has insisted others do, is the same reason I would imagine Hillary Clinton doesn't want to release the texts of certain speeches she's given to folks like those at Goldman-Sachs: It would be a bonanza for political opponents who like to yank chunks out of context and spin them as indecent and possibly illegal acts. There are folks out there who can do that with just about anything, no matter how legal or innocent it is.