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[HotHamBoy]

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/349699-house-panel-rejects-measure-to-seek-trumps-tax-returns?amp

The New Jersey lawmaker and other Democrats argued that it's important to see Trump's tax returns to learn about any potential conflicts of interest and to see how the president would personally benefit from any tax-reform legislation.

"The information is important for the American people so they know that their president is always acting in their best interest," said Rep. Richard Neal (Mass.), the top Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee.

But Republicans argued that the measure is politically motivated and that requesting the information would be an invasion of privacy.

"To be frank, this measure is a procedural tool being utilized, and I believe abused, for obvious political purposes," Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) said.

Trump is the first president in decades who has not disclosed his tax returns. He said during the campaign that he wouldn't release them because of an IRS audit. However, the IRS has said that audits don't prevent people from releasing their own tax information.

🤔 me if old

 

[IaN_GAF]

At this point, I don't think it would make a difference.

 

[Randolph Freelander]

Let him make another deal with Democrats. Republicans will then be like "on second thought, these taxes might be interesting..."

 

[adj_noun]

I'm not worried.

He'll be replying to that petition any day now.

 

[Muppet of a Man]

God, Republicans are cunts...the lot of them.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Kevin Brady must have a cut. I wonder what his tune would be if it were the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation

 

[Loudninja]

They can reject it all they want but soon he going to have to show them.

 

[Herr Schwarz]

Hick traitors that will find themselves in the asshole section of the history books.

 

[Sephzilla]

Trump's tax returns are probably going to come to light anyway thanks to the Mueller investigation

 

[Chained Prometheus]

Trump's tax returns are probably going to come to light anyway thanks to the Mueller investigation

Yup. Isn't he working with the IRS now?

 

[jon bones]

Hick traitors that will find themselves in the asshole section of the history books.

they been there from the jump

 

[smokeymicpot]

Yup. Isn't he working with the IRS now?

Yes he is.

 

[Sephzilla]

Yup. Isn't he working with the IRS now?

Yup!

 

[Hubbl3]

I would imagine Mueller has already got access to them or at least I'm hoping he's already got access to them seeing as how he teamed up with the Seal Team IRS not too long ago

 

[Surfinn]

Mueller probably already has them

So they can fuck right off.

 

[WiiredShawn]

So literally every other candidate, Republican and Democrat alike, presented their tax returns, but asking Trump to do the same is "politically motivated"?

Fuck off with this hypocrisy.

 

[Alex_Mexico]

Mueller probably already has them

So they can fuck right off.

What makes you say that? And if he does what is taking him so long??

 

[Hastati]

Hick traitors that will find themselves in the asshole section of the history books.

He'll be right there next to PauL Ryan and Rush Limbaugh and several hundred other republicans in the "L" volume of Encyclopedia Doucheica.

 

[Xamtheking]

What makes you say that? And if he does what is taking him so long??

Mueller is moving at approximately 17 times the speed of light relative to how long investigations like this usually take
Watergate took 2 and a half years, by comparison

 

[Zolo]

If you don't want to do things for political purposes, maybe don't work in politics?

 

[Shake Appeal]

God, Republicans are cunts...the lot of them.

Correct.

 

[Strike]

But Republicans argued that the measure is politically motivated and that requesting the information would be an invasion of privacy.

He's not a private citizen.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

SHOCK!

 

[Mark Andrew]

Please be patient. The audit should be done any day now.

 

[Ithil]

Irrelevant by now, Mueller is working with the IRS, he'll see the tax returns.

 

[Foxshot]

We shouldn't be shocked to see that this was rejected.