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kentuck

(111,089 posts) Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:00 PM Dec 2016

What things be different if Trump had been forced to show tax returns?

Before the election?

Should this be a requirement for all presidential candidates?

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What things be different if Trump had been forced to show tax returns? (Original Post) kentuck Dec 2016 OP

It's mandatory HassleCat Dec 2016 #1

It's become a tradition True Dough Dec 2016 #2

Many voters admired him for it. HassleCat Dec 2016 #3

Let them be the first to bend over and take it when he (and he will) fu**s up. Tikki Dec 2016 #4

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)

1. It's mandatory

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:09 PM

Dec 2016

Except for a candidate who's such an enormous jerk that he simply refuses and nobody cares. There is no way to make it an absolute requirement.

True Dough

(17,303 posts)

2. It's become a tradition

Reply to HassleCat (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:23 PM

Dec 2016

but it's not the law.

Of course it looks awfully suspicious for the POTUS candidate who doesn't conform, but Drumpf was elected in spite of it. Sad, but true.

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)

3. Many voters admired him for it.

Reply to True Dough (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:34 PM

Dec 2016

It's a kind of "shove it up your ass" thing that so many people admire now.

Tikki

(14,557 posts)

4. Let them be the first to bend over and take it when he (and he will) fu**s up.