NYT editorial board member writes op-ed saying everyone's income taxes should be available to public

[SirLinksALot]

SOURCE: AMERICAN THINKER

URL: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/nyt_editorial_board_member_writes_oped_saying_that_everyones_income_taxes_should_be_available_to_the_public.html

by Thomas Lisfon


The very concept of privacy seems to be under attack (except, of course, as a justification for abortion, as laid out in Roe v. Wade — that is considered sacrosanct by the Left, including academia and the media).

Now, from a member of the New York Times editorial board, comes the suggestion that not just President Trump's but your and my income tax records should be publicly available.  I'm not kidding.  Binyamin Applebaum wrote in the Sunday edition — the one with the biggest readership:

… disclosure could help to ensure that people pay a fair share of taxes.  Americans underpay their taxes by more than $450 billion each year, more than 10 percent of total federal revenue.  Publishing a list of millionaires who paid little or no taxes this year could significantly reduce the number of millionaires who pay little or no taxes next year.

In Norway, where tax records have been public since the founding of the modern state in 1814, a newspaper put the records online in 2001.  One study estimated that the records' greater availability caused a 3.1 percent increase in the reported incomes of self-employed Norwegians over the next three years, perhaps because they feared exposure.

Disclosure also could help to reduce disparities in income, as well as disparities in tax payments.  Inequality is easier to ignore in the absence of evidence.  In Finland, where tax data is published each year on Nov. 1 — jovially known as National Jealousy Day — people treat the information as a barometer of whether inequality is yawning too wide.

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[Applewood]

Ok, Mr.  Applebaum, you first.

Wanna bet he would want all of us to make our tax records public, but he would want an exemption for himself?

[Free Vulcan]

I'm sure he'd love that. Then the media could roam around like a pack of ravaging hyenas attacking anyone and everyone they don't like, or speaks against them, using any little apparent discrepancy to paint them as a criminal tax cheat.

Kinda like that time after Trump was first elected when they attacked, ambushed, and doxxed that Florida woman who they said conspired with the Russians to organize campaign events for Trump.

[truth_seeker]

This is all Trump's fault.

Since he refuses tomake his taxes public, the democrats and media feel it necessary to go after everyone's taxes.

Another day, another article and another complaint. Damn that Trump guy.

[DCPatriot]

This is all Trump's fault.

Since he refuses tomake his taxes public, the democrats and media feel it necessary to go after everyone's taxes.

Another day, another article and another complaint. Damn that Trump guy.

 

[Fishrrman]

Lead us by example.

You first, Mr. Applebaum...

[240B]

This is all Trump's fault.

Since he refuses tomake his taxes public, the democrats and media feel it necessary to go after everyone's taxes.

Another day, another article and another complaint. Damn that Trump guy.

Democrats will never allow their income to become public, no matter what.
They are all corrupt criminals.
Seeing all the Democrats' tax returns would basically kill the Democrat Party.

No Judge would ever dare prosecute a Democrat for any crime, but the publicity alone would kill them.
Their masks would be janked off, to show the hideous grinning beast as she is.