RNC chief urges Clinton to voluntarily pay the extra taxes she proposes

Hillary Clinton should voluntarily pony up the millions in extra taxes she'd owe under her own income tax proposal, said Republican National Committee (RNC) Chair Reince Priebus on Monday in a letter to the Clintons' accountant.

"As a part of Mrs. Clinton’s tax policy proposals, she has called for an unprecedented new tax on Americans who earn more than $5 million annually," Priebus wrote, pointing out that Clinton herself is in the top 0.01 percent of income earners. So with "the Clintons’ tremendous income," Priebus continued, "I am calling upon them to fully embrace her new tax by applying the 'surcharge' to her family’s previous income since 2001 when her family income has been in excess of $10 million on average annually."

To make the process easier, Priebus provided a calculation of the $4.6 million more Clinton would owe on the $187 million in taxable income her family has reported since leaving the White House 15 years ago, including $9.4 million in 2001, the year Clinton infamously said she was "dead broke."