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With the Russian Collusion Delusion circling the drain and Fat Bastard Representative Jerrold Nadler looking increasingly like the squealing baboon that he is, the Democrats have opened a new front in the War on Trump/War on Those Who Voted For Trump. Massachusetts Representative Richard Neal sent a letter requesting the tax returns of President Donald John Trump from the Internal Revenue Service.
Richard Neal is Chairman of the (powerful) House Ways and Means Committee. The Dems on the committee also include the thundering John Lewis of Georgia. Fortunately, the Pubbies have Kevin Brady and Devin Nunes on our side. And, I do mean our side. It is long been evident that while the Pubbies keep playing by the Marquis of Queensbury Rules, the Dems are playing Badonka Bare Knuckle Brawl. The Dems want to kill the ideas of republicanism and insure that no one who cannot be controlled or cowed by them ever runs for President again.
If you want to read the letter, I have the link right here. Neal has requested six years of Trump Tax Returns (2013-2018) for every entity in the Trump Organization.
Remember that the Ways and Means Committee is where all tax bills start and Richard Neal cannot come right out and say to the IRS that he wants to look for ways to impeach the President. That’s not in his purview. So, he has carefully couched his words:
Awww, Neal is just trying to make sure tax laws are applied fairly and that the IRS is auditing Trump correctly, that’s all. Right, but those of us woke to the lies of agencies weaponized by the Demoncrats remember IRS Commissar Lois Lerner and her Jihad against the Tea Party. We are wise to the lies.
Trump is the first President since Richard Nixon started the practice not to release his tax returns. I say, big, freaking whoo. None of my doggone business. Really, it isn’t. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Trump responded:
“We’re under audit, despite what people said, and we’re working that out,” he told reporters Wednesday evening at the White House. The president said “I’ve been under audit for many years because the numbers are big and I guess when you have a name you’re audited. But until such time as I’m not under audit I would not be inclined” to release the returns.
As president, he is under mandatory IRS audit; he has said the audits date from before he ran for office. However, the law that Mr. Neal invoked says the Treasury secretary “shall furnish” any returns requested by the Ways and Means chairman, regardless of whether a taxpayer is president or is under audit.
Oh and here is something else that I bet you didn’t know, again from the article:
Mr. Neal is using a nearly century-old section of the tax code that gives congressional tax-writing committees the power to obtain anyone’s tax information.
Wurt dur furk? So, if Richard Neal of the (powerful) House Ways and Means Committee decides he dislikes little ol’ Toni Sue Holt Williams of the Tennessee Valley, he can ask for my tax returns under the guise of just making sure they were audited right. Oh, hale no. While everyone out there is getting their knickers in a knot over social media privacy, Congressweasels can find out all of your details. Our government has been snorting up all of our information since the Cold War. And, we don’t have the lawyers that President Trump has to fight against the Congressweasels.
The Congressweasels are also using the testimony of lying weasel lawyer Michael Cohen to bolster their argument for the Trump tax returns, from CNN:
Trump has also been accused, notably by his former attorney Michael Cohen, of both deflating and over estimating the value of his properties and assets in insurance claims and on loan applications — a practice on which tax returns could shed light.
Um, yeah, let me set this picture: Donald Trump, every April 14, scrambling to get his taxes done, sitting in his lounge pants, chewing on his pencil, trying to figure out which properties he undervalued and which properties he overvalued on which insurance claim. I swear these people think we are as stupid as they are.
And, speaking of insurance fraud, Rachel Maddow was positively giddy last night:
Remember whatever they do to Donald Trump, they can and will do to you and me. And, people of Massachusetts First Congressional District, a question for you. Did you notice this Richard Neal had crazy eyes and elect him anyway?
Photo Credit: Official Photo of Richard Neal/Public Domain/Cropped
Using the IRS to get at Trump is another short-sighted maneuver. The IRS is fairly despised by all in America, and Trump can easily make this about the bigger issue of government snooping into our private lives. The Dems have become the Donkey Oti Party–Tilting at Windmills Is What We Do Best!!
GWB says: If we could make two changes to the tax code, it would change this country’s politics for the better almost overnight.
– Require payment of all federal income tax in cash or check (or money order) at the time of filing.
– Move the filing date to the Thursday before the first Tuesday (after the first Monday) in November.
I would take it a step (or twelve steps) further. Make income tax a monthly bill rather than withholding. When people see how much they’re paying and have to write a check, they’ll begin to wake up. I agree with moving the April 15 deadline for filing.
GWB says: Hence the requirement to pay it all by cash or check. I don’t even want them to pay in monthly installments – save it all up and write the ENTIRE check just before the elections. Eliminate withholding altogether.
I would allow it to be done in stages – first year change the timing, second year, reduce withholding to 75%, next to 50% and so on. The morons who don’t figure it out and just spend this “raise” in their paycheck should keep the IRS busy enough for the next 3 decades they won’t have time to harass everyone else.
Steve S says: I understand and agree with your sympathy, but it’s a big effin’ deal if your (read: my) taxes are more than a W-2. I surely do not wish to go through all that 12 times each year.
GWB says: And, I *want* you mad about it. I want you grumbling and grousing and madder than a hornet when you walk into the voting booth. Only if enough people are doing that will the attitude swing against Big Gov’t.
(I only advocate this because repealing the 16th Amendment would be even harder. Until you did this…..)
His_Highness says: Just remember. If the IRS gives Trump’s tax returns to Congress, it can give your tax returns to Congress.
Yes, of course, you have nothing to hide. That is not the point. What happened to the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? How is that advanced by giving up your private financial information to the entire nation?
GWB says: What happened to the life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
Hell, what happened to the Fourth Amendment? And the Fifth?
Bill Dumanch says: What happened to the 4th and 5th Amendments? The Chicago Transit Workers Union. One of their train operators got a lil’ coked up, ran into another train, fatalities. Was given a blood test(he refused attempts to get Field Sobriety Test, which then triggers a new layer of tests for commercial ops/truck drivers/pilots[John Denver] which confirmed him being REALLY high-Union went ALL THE WAY to SCOTUS. Unanimous opinion, public safety overrules privacy. “A republic-if you can keep it”. Benjamin Franklin
GWB says: Oh, hale no.
While I would point first to the idea that a national income tax is a perverse violation of the spirit of several amendments in the Bill of Rights, fundamentally this is what you get when you grow gov’t.
Also, I’m ok with this bit of law – as long as Congresscritters are OK with my use of a rope and a lamppost the first time they make anyone’s information public or use it to persecute a citizen or lawful assembly of citizens.
Donald Trump, every April 14, scrambling to get his taxes done
Ummmm, trust me when I say that Trump has probably never scrambled to get his taxes done. He pays people to take care of his taxes. Anyone at his level of income and business dealings has people do their taxes.
(As to the “which properties he undervalued” and such – the people who do his taxes keep careful track of all those things. Which is why you know that at least one of them would be in the media day and night with their notes, if that had happened in an illegal fashion.)
Toni Williams says: GWB
sorry about my lame joke about Trump doing his taxes.
GWB says: Pfft. *waves off the apology*
But it’s an important thing to remember for several reasons. The biggest being when the morons begin to demand we “tax the rich!” we need to point out that they don’t sit down with TurboTax mid-February and clutch their pearls wondering if the 1099 from Chase will come through in time, or whether their refund will be big enough to afford that new couch. No, they hire people – LOTS of people – who watch their books all year, and pick their filing date to maximize their end result, and keep careful track of everything and understand every nuance of the tax code and….
Our tax code is authoritarian, over-bearing, overly intrusive, openly subjective (the IRS even warns you that their very own employees’ advice won’t keep you out of prison!), ripe for abuse (as we’ve already seen), and counter to all principles of a free republic.
Repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments, and we can return this country to a proper federalist footing, guaranteeing our success for generations to come.
SDN says: “He pays people to take care of his taxes. Anyone at his level of income and business dealings has people do their taxes.”
But most people don’t. It’s what the rats are counting on. They’re also counting on people not understanding how either accounting or tax law work, and that the rat’s nest of Federal, state(s), and international tax law offers a rich harvest of things that look shady or just plain bat guano crazy.
sound awake says: this isnt checks and balances
or divided government
or down and dirty politics
this is our government in open rebellion against itself
this will not end well
there are powers that be in the halls of government waiting in the wings for their turn at governing
and they hate us
and would just as soon not have us around
theyve split from us and as such are no longer our countrymen
we must think plan and act accordingly
we must be cautious
Joe R. says: Again, and still, how’s about some serious prosecution of The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. 841-844)?
Make that capital prosecutions.
Run beotches.
Steve S says: The IRS does the taxes for our Congress-critters. I would bet that neither Nadler nor Neal have any clue how the tax system actually works, or how to read a tax return in the first place.
GWB says: It does?!? Why on earth would it do that? And why on earth would a Congresscritter stand for it?!?
Mark Bishop says: Lets have every Government “Servant Leader’s” Tax Return Posted on the Internet. Of course Our Congress would never agree to this. I will show you mine if you show me yours is a fair Standard.
GWB says: And I still won’t show them mine.
Bandit says: Besides it just being a sickenly phony ploy to harass Trump for the years 2016 and before Trump was a private citizen and I’d have to be convinced that Congress has any right or reason to request the tax returns of private citizens
Robert Shotzberger says: Trump should get Neal’s tax returns. only fair.
tmavenger says: I hold the radical opinion that the Constitution means what it says. The 4th Amendment says, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated…” It does not make exception for congressional fishing expeditions. It applies to every American, even the President.
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