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Eliot Rosewater

(31,106 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 07:01 PM May 2017

GOP could end our national nightmare today, would require patriotism however

http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/07/news/economy/trump-tax-returns/

The ultimate example of party over country, these are not patriots.


President Trump doesn't have to publicly disclose his tax returns, now or ever.

But some members of Congress can, if they want.

Thanks to a little-known and rarely used provision in the law, either the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee or the Joint Committee on Taxation may request anyone's tax returns to examine -- including the president's -- from the secretary of the Treasury.

They wouldn't need to tell anyone that they did so. They could share the returns with their committee members in closed session. And if one of the committees thinks releasing the returns to the House or Senate would further a legitimate committee purpose and be in the public interest, they can do that, too -- without Trump's consent, said George Yin, a former chief of staff at the Joint Committee on Taxation and a professor of law at the University of Virginia.


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GOP could end our national nightmare today, would require patriotism however (Original Post) Eliot Rosewater May 2017 OP
And they *planned* this with them for years. smh nt LaydeeBug May 2017 #1
And when it suits them, they'll deny they ever knew Drumph... VOX May 2017 #2
Did you catch Sessions basically saying he is going to arrest as many Eliot Rosewater May 2017 #3
I think it's beyond party over country, defacto7 May 2017 #4

VOX

(22,976 posts)
2. And when it suits them, they'll deny they ever knew Drumph...
Fri May 12, 2017, 07:06 PM
May 2017

"He didn't reflect the great Republican values that are best for America," and other such bullshit quotes will be a dime a dozen.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,106 posts)
3. Did you catch Sessions basically saying he is going to arrest as many
Fri May 12, 2017, 07:09 PM
May 2017

non whites as possible and put them in his private for profit prisons?

He wants to provoke a war, he wants to then sell black people .

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