Tax Returns?

Tax Day 2006 -- a day lamented by many of us -- has come and gone. In our neighboring state of New York, the gubernatorial candidates and Governor Pataki have made public their tax returns. (SHOCKER: they are all wealthy.) This begs the question, will our gubernatorial candidates make their returns public? To date, it appears that only John DeStefano has indicated a desire to share such information. On January 23 of this year he issued a press release stating that he had made public his tax returns from 2002, 2003 and 2004. No word yet on 2005 or 2006.

I'm not sure any of this matters a great deal, especially since Gov. Rell is the most popular governor in America, but it is odd that such a common practice is not being done here in Connecticut.