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Republicans on Trump Tax Returns: Democrats ‘May Regret It Sooner Than They Think’
Breitbart ^ | 12/30/2022 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 12/30/2022 12:27:52 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27

Republicans in the minority on the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee declared Friday that there had been “no legitimate legislative purpose” for the Democratic majority to release Donald Trump’s tax returns.

It was the first time Congress had ever obtained and released the federal tax returns of a private individual. Democrats claimed that they needed the returns as they considered future tax legislation. But the former president argued in court — to no avail — that Democrats were overstepping the separation of powers.

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KEYWORDS: republicans; returns; soonerthantheythink; tax; trump; whatsgoodforthegoose
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Darn right. Witch hunt
1 posted on 12/30/2022 12:27:52 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The only reason for this is that dems passionately hate Trump and plan to use the returns against him.


2 posted on 12/30/2022 12:35:28 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media not worth camel spit. My pronouns: Who, What, I Don't Know.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Yeah, sure they will. I’ll be sitting here waiting holding my breath for Republicans to be aggressive. They know Biden will flip them the finger and his IRS will not turn anything over. There is nothing as aggressive as a Republican when they know they don’t actually have the power to do something.


3 posted on 12/30/2022 12:38:12 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats just won’t comply. Easy enough.


4 posted on 12/30/2022 12:38:41 PM PST by McCarthysGhost (q)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats claimed that they needed the returns as they considered future tax legislation.

If this was the argument they successfully used in court, they just set a beautiful precedent.

If the republicans had any ballz, which they don’t, they’d be going after and getting, based on this court precedent, the tax returns of: Soros, Gates, Kerry, every celebrity you can name, Lebron James, Steve Kerr, all the skanks on The View, everyone at CNN & MSNBC, every hedge fund manager, every senior guy at Blackrock and Vanguard, every liberal donor. If I missed anyone, feel free to think of some.


5 posted on 12/30/2022 12:38:51 PM PST by qaz123
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The first thing McCarthy needs to do is start issuing subpoenas like the snow in Buffalo. Every single member of this administration and their combined families. Drag them all in front of House committees and put them under oath.

That includes Pelosi, Schiff, Kinzinger, and Cheney. Subpoena their tax preparers. Subpoena their banks.

And drag that useless Hunter Biden in while they’re at it.

They started this. Give them a bellyful in return.

All this assumes that McCarthy has a functional set it testes, of course.

L


6 posted on 12/30/2022 12:39:07 PM PST by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Oooooh big talk from the Republicans.


7 posted on 12/30/2022 12:39:18 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DesertRhino

PRyno worked overtime to f VSGPDJT [and MAGA].

I expect McCarthy to be no different.


8 posted on 12/30/2022 12:41:13 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

If only Republicans could be as ruthless and unyielding as the Democrats, instead of castrated, whiny, useless cucks...


9 posted on 12/30/2022 12:41:43 PM PST by Magnatron
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It was the first time Congress had ever obtained and released the federal tax returns of a private individual...the former president argued in court — to no avail — that Democrats were overstepping the separation of powers.


The first time that Congress has ever gotten anyone’s tax returns. That should be the key point, not that they were the returns of a President. I have heard no justification for making the tax returns public.

Of course any attempt at doing the same to, oh, I don’t know, the Biden family, will be condemned by all right-thinking folks—petty partisanship, revenge, maybe even insurrectionist.


10 posted on 12/30/2022 12:42:49 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: Lurker

“The first thing McCarthy needs to do is start issuing subpoenas like the snow in Buffalo.”


But the subpoenas will be ignored with impunity. D.O.J. certainly won’t be prosecuting anyone for contempt of Congress.


11 posted on 12/30/2022 12:45:05 PM PST by hanamizu
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Spare me, you limp-wristed, sternly-worded letter-writing pansies... you gutless POS scumbags aren’t going to do a damned thing.


12 posted on 12/30/2022 12:45:38 PM PST by Common Sense 101
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Oooooh big talk from the Republicans.

My contempt is rising for Texas Pubbies down in Austin. Thanks to them, I'm gerrymandered into District 33 from 24, Beth Van Duyne's district. I'm now in a 75% Democrat district that runs all the way to Fort Worth. Marc Veasey is a true blue Democrat who shares none of my values...just freaking awesome.

13 posted on 12/30/2022 12:48:03 PM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It! lol)
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To: McCarthysGhost

“Democrats just won’t comply. Easy enough”.

The Dems know that they have everything in place which will prevent them from being forced to comply.


14 posted on 12/30/2022 12:52:25 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Id love to see Pelosi, her hammer loving hubby, Maxine Waters, Ed buck’s squeaky toy Adam Schiff and Ted Lieu, the ENTIRE Biden crime family’s tax returns but we wont, different standards when you are a commie a-hole


15 posted on 12/30/2022 12:55:33 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: dfwgator

+1


16 posted on 12/30/2022 12:55:37 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: qaz123
If I missed anyone, feel free to think of some.

Pelousy and her less than hetero husband.

17 posted on 12/30/2022 12:57:18 PM PST by immadashell (Save Innocent Lives: Ban Gun Free Zones)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Can’t wait to see Biden’s tax returns and whether he claimed ALL his income when he was Vice P.


18 posted on 12/30/2022 1:02:41 PM PST by Signalman
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Democrats just won’t comply. Easy enough.

Against Trump: We demand these tax returns. We will go to any court appeal lengths to get them. He has no right to keep them to himself.

Against Dems: What? Invade the privacy and independence of these humble public servants who sacrificed their private sector careers to give all to their country? Shameful. These are untouchable.

Nancy Pelosi's Net Worth is $135 Million US Dollars. Salary $210,000. Chuck Schumer net worth $70 million.

19 posted on 12/30/2022 1:09:55 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna .hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Waiting for republicans to do ANYTHING about demonrat lawlessness and Constitutional violations....

skeleton-waiting

20 posted on 12/30/2022 1:09:59 PM PST by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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