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General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: mystery-ak on May 09, 2019, 08:14:53 pm
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New York State Making Moves To Give Congress Access To Some Of Trump's Taxes
Matt Vespa
@mvespa1
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Posted: May 09, 2019 1:10 PM
With President Donald Trump not playing the Democrats’ impeachment games (and rightfully so), states have done their part in fighting this administration. Washington State and New Jersey have passed laws keeping presidential candidates off the ballot if they don’t release their taxes. Well, it’s not like any Republican candidate was going to win those states anyway, but it’s all part of the two-year long temper tantrum over Hillary Clinton’s shocking election loss in 2016.
Taxes remain another front in the ongoing crusade to impeach Trump. Democrats don’t have Russian collusion anymore; that was nuked by the Mueller report. They’re still clinging to obstruction of justice, but there’s not enough evidence to pursue charges, as determined by Attorney General William Barr and soon-to-be-ex Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. The only evidence in the affirmative is that liberal CNN pundits think this happened because…they don’t like Trump. Belief is not evidence. And excuse me if I don’t care what a horde of former Obama officials have to say on this matter. With the Treasury Department refusing to turn over information on Trump’s finances, New York State is making legislative moves to make that happen, passing a bill that would allow them to turn over such documents if asked by Congress. Yet, this will only apply to state income taxes (via NBC News):
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https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2019/05/09/new-york-state-making-moves-to-give-congress-access-to-some-of-trumps-taxes-n2546046
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This is either an unconstitutional bill of attainder (legislation aimed at only one person), or a startling disregard by the State of New York of the tax privacy of its citizens.
Hillary and Bill are citizens of New York, too. Maybe the GOP-controlled committees in the Senate can, just for fun, get copies of their New York returns, and the returns of the Clinton Foundation, and spread 'em all over the internet.
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This is either an unconstitutional bill of attainder (legislation aimed at only one person), or a startling disregard by the State of New York of the tax privacy of its citizens.
Hillary and Bill are citizens of New York, too. Maybe the GOP-controlled committees in the Senate can, just for fun, get copies of their New York returns, and the returns of the Clinton Foundation, and spread 'em all over the internet.
It's not targeted at Trump, for better or worse. The bill authorizes the state to hand Congress ANYONE's tax returns.
I'm not sure how constitutional it is to search papers without a warrant or probable cause; I'd think that's a Fourth Amendment violation.