Quote (Ghot @ Jul 2 2019 02:24pm)
I meant as in an audit.
Congress does NOT have the authority to demand tax returns, unless it was evidence in an ongoing case. A legitimate case.
The only thing that will come out of this... "witch hunt" is ... 1984 in real life.
this is far from factual. the treasury "shall furnish" documents on request. when the law was written the treasury was hardly the executive body it is today. several hundred years of precedent later it's never really come up before. mainly because literally every presidential candidate in living memory has voluntarily given them over as a part of tradition, and previous to that what a person paid in taxes wasn't an issue.
congress 100% has the right to ask, whether the treasury dept has the right to deny them is another issue that will likely be decided by the SCOTUS next year.
and this all could have been avoided if Trump didn't choose to be the first POTUS candidate in living memory that didn't voluntarily turn them over. Bernie took shit for having too high of an income and 2 houses, but he still posted his. i dont think Trump is hiding Russia shit in his taxes, he's hiding that he hasn't paid any and several takes advantage of writing off losses over several years.
Quote (joncomgree @ Jul 2 2019 02:35pm)
i feel like you havent read 1984
also this. honestly flippant authoritarian demands strike me more as an Animal Farm theme. this doesn't seem to ring of mass surveillance in any real way.
This post was edited by thesnipa on Jul 2 2019 02:37pm