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Hey Rep Neal, Where's YOUR Tax Return? lidblog.com/rep-neal-tax-r… via @yidwithlid
Congressional Democrats are now going after President Trump’s tax returns. It’s their latest attempt to punish President Trump for beating Hillary Clinton and for ruining their favorite conspiracy by not colluding with the Ruskies.
The hypocritical part of the Democrat’s request is same members of Congress asking for Trump’s returns have kept their own returns a secret despite a request from reporters from a major D.C. newspaper covering Congress, Roll Call.
On Thursday, House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal (D-MA) sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig, asking for Trump’s personal and business returns for 2013 through 2018. He asked for the documents in seven days, setting an April 10 deadline.
If releasing tax returns is so essential to Rep Neal, why doesn’t he release HIS tax returns to voters? He didn’t even respond to Roll Call when they asked for his tax returns in 2017. Rep John Lewis (D-GA) also on the committee didn’t release his returns or respond to Roll Call.
Fifteen other Democrats on the Ways and Means committee refused the Roll Call request to share their returns. Reps who had already shared their returns elsewhere were marked as providing them to Roll Call:
Maybe Nancy doesn’t like Roll Call, because when McClatchy asked for her tax returns in 2012, Pelosi replied to them. She refused, but at least she replied. However, paraphrasing the traditional Democratic Party anti-Trump canard, “what is Pelosi trying to hide?”
Adam Schiff said his committee will undertake an investigation into whether the President's interests are driving his actions. Schiff said the inquiry would “allow us to investigate any credible allegation that financial interests or other interests are driving decision-making
Schiff is another one who refused to release his returns or respond to Roll Call. I for one will love to learn if he is getting paid to leak all that secret anti-Trump data.
Other Democrats who haven’t released their returns include Maxine “impeach him” Waters, and Jerrold Nadler. In Nadler’s case, I would like to see his returns to find out if the Iranian Mullahs paid him off to vote for the Iran nuclear deal,
Right now there is no law saying a presidential candidate, president, or even member of Congress has to release their tax returns, but they do have to issue a financial disclosure annually. President Trump’s most recent disclosure form was released in May 2018
The President has said he would not release his tax returns until the IRS finishes auditing them. When someone as wealthy as President Trump is audited there is likely a team at the IRS going through the audited years’ returns looking for something to nail the taxpayer on
But when that same wealthy candidate releases tax returns the IRS auditors are joined by the opposition party, newspapers, magazines, tv networks, bloggers, etc. If the media finds a mistake in a year, the IRS isn’t auditing the IRS can add that year’s return to the audit.
Also, keep in mind the fact someone’s return is being audited doesn’t mean the IRS has found something. There are certain red flags that make IRS audits more likely.
The real truth is the hypocritical Democrats are upset that their hero Mueller came up with nothing, and are merely trying to find a different way to prevent Trump’s agenda from being enacted, and to prevent him from being reelected.
