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Please tell me why we should NOT see Trump’s tax returns.

Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:14 am
Posted by thetigerman
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Member since Sep 2006
3630 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:14 am
I, as an American citizen, should see MY President’s tax returns so that I know who is funding him.

Why is that a controversial position?
Posted by Chancellor
BHam
Member since Oct 2017
2224 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:17 am to
Because it's not any of your business?
Posted by wmr
North of Dickson, South of Herman's
Member since Mar 2009
32518 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:17 am to
I just don't understand why you give a shite. Oh, it's because someone like Maddow told you to care.

Posted by xrockfordf150x
Walker, LA
Member since Sep 2008
3847 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:17 am to
quote:

I, as an American citizen, should see MY President’s tax returns so that I know who is funding him.


So what line on a tax return does that show up?
Posted by civiltiger07
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
14063 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:19 am to
You expect his tax returns to show “who is funding” him? You sad sad little person.
Posted by Jjdoc
Cali
Member since Mar 2016
53533 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:19 am to
quote:

as an American citizen, s


As an American citizen you have zero rights to anybody else's tax return. By law, the President is not required to give it to the public.

Posted by Lsupimp
Ersatz Amerika-97.6% phony & fake
Member since Nov 2003
79294 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:19 am to
Because it’s not required by law that he be compelled to share his financial information with you. And for now, you live in a country that observes a little something called The Rule Of Law. Change the law and get back to us.
Posted by memphisplaya
Member since Jan 2009
85908 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:20 am to
quote:

should see MY President’s tax returns so that I know who is funding him.


You have never filed a tax return
Posted by davyjones
NELA
Member since Feb 2019
30490 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:21 am to
Because you're trying to hypothesize a crime or other foul up front, and only then go in search of something to support your hypothesis. Plainly stated...that's just not how it's supposed to work. Reverse engineering a scandal.

This seems apparent...Dems want everything under the sun on Trump so they can find anything to hit him with. Now, if some specific allegation comes up that makes his tax returns relevant...that may be a different ball of wax.
Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!
Mission Viejo, CA
Member since Mar 2012
69464 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:22 am to
A tax return doesn’t show such info

Either you are still in high school or you have never filed a tax return
Posted by IllegalPete
Front Range
Member since Oct 2017
7182 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:22 am to
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so that I know who is funding him


Taxpayers pay him $400k/yr salary which he donates to a different cause each quarter.

People of the world fund his companies when they stay, eat, drink, play golf at his properties. This is called running a business though, they are not sliding him a Benjamin when shaking his hand.

Or sending him tens of millions of dollars through a phony foundation that doesn't even file its taxes until years later when he decided to run for POTUS.
Posted by stuntman
Florida
Member since Jan 2013
9141 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:23 am to
Why can't you just agree or disagree w/ the policies he puts in place?

That's literally all that matters.

BTW, I wonder how many Global Warming bedwetters have 401ks that are invested in blue chip oil companies?

Does that now mean that they actually support more global warming?

Point is, the guy is apparently worth billions, so there are going to be a lot of "conflicts of interest" if you go looking to make something up....which is EXACTLY what these scum Dems will do.
Posted by cable
Member since Oct 2018
9668 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:23 am to
Go to work for the IRS, then you can audit his taxes every single year.
Posted by Teauxler
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2010
3316 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:28 am to
Why couldn’t I see Obamas birth certificate?
Posted by troyt37
Member since Mar 2008
13358 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:31 am to
quote:

I, as an American citizen, should see MY President’s tax returns so that I know who is funding him.

Why is that a controversial position?


Well first, why don’t you tell us what you thought about your mayor’s, your governor’s, your state representative’s, your state senator’s, your US representative’s, and your US senator’s tax returns? Did you learn a lot from them? Did you find out who is funding each of them?
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
134026 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:33 am to
quote:

as an American citizen, should see MY President’s tax returns


Yup, it's right there in the constitution.

Oh wait. Nvm. It's not.

Go frick yourself.
Posted by BurningHeart
Member since Jan 2017
9545 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:34 am to
quote:

I, as an American citizen, should see MY President’s tax returns so that I know who is funding him.


Besides this point, which everyone has already schooled you on...

Do you really think a billionaire with businesses and real estate all around the world needs to be "funded" by a foreign government?

Perhaps you should demand more transparency from the career politicians that are worth hundreds of millions?
Posted by LosLobos111
Austere
Member since Feb 2011
45385 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:35 am to
If there was anything nefarious in his Taxes we would've known about them in 2015/16 when he was running for president. Obamas weaponized IRS surely could've found SOMETHING right?

Why didn't they?

And let's play devil advocate with this ridiculous Russian narrative: how could Hillary Clinton(who y'all claimed was the most qualified EVER) who had EVERY advantage(the media/establishment/Hollywood and Tech etc) not be able to overcome a political noob who had "help" from Russia? Why couldn't she and all of her advantages overcome it?

Posted by momentoftruth87
Member since Oct 2013
72708 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:36 am to
@OP
Posted by Asharad
Tiamat
Member since Dec 2010
5735 posts
Posted on 4/14/19 at 12:36 am to
quote:

I, as an American citizen, should see MY President’s tax returns so that I know who is funding him.



Why?
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