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To: Dale Baker who wrote (59937)	4/18/2008 8:42:14 PM
From: Katelew	of 542432

Actually I was amused all the way through listening to people clamor for their returns. Implied was that big things would be revealed. As you point out, the information on tax returns is quite limited. I'm assuming they released the entire return, i.e. all the attachments, or we'd still be hearing clamoring. The sources of income, though, were broken out. If memory serves, I think approx. 90% of it came from speeches and book sales. Basically the rest came from his investor relationship with Ron Burkle. Maybe a list of where he made his speeches would have turned up something or at least given rise to more speculation. I considered it a very clean return relatively speaking. Affective tax rate of 31% is high, quite high, for people in their income group. Without the 10% level of gifting off the gross it would have even been higher. It suggested their only major deduction was their charitable gifting. At any rate, I've been amused that their enemies didn't seem to realize that a return isn't that detailed. The total silence though has surprised me. I'd have thought at least a little grumbling and speculation would still be circulating.

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