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1 posted on 12/21/2018 6:54:11 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Executive Privilege”.

That door swings 2 ways.


2 posted on 12/21/2018 6:58:10 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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...because he believes it's wrong that Trump is the first president in 40 years not to have made his returns public.

He believes?....There is no law mandating that he do so...................

3 posted on 12/21/2018 6:58:24 AM PST by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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“Private review” is the key term. I’m guessing that the Treasury Secretary can easily comply by having the document at a Treasury vault area, and the Chairman (by himself) can walk in and observe it. Since the chairman is not an accomplished finance expert....he’ll have no idea what he is looking at or the details. So the battle will start that he wants copies or to have his own experts to review it. But the law doesn’t give that ‘right’.


4 posted on 12/21/2018 6:59:43 AM PST by pepsionice
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Let’s start with total transparency on all elected Democrats, their staffers, their handlers, backers, grift controllers, and foreign interests.

Then we’ll talk Trump.


5 posted on 12/21/2018 7:00:54 AM PST by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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You’d think we might be able to get some transparency first on how the Deepstate tried (is trying) to sabotage an elected President.


6 posted on 12/21/2018 7:00:55 AM PST by Rumierules
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Wonder what good this will do the rats in 2025 or after, when our President has finished his 2nd term, and this case may or may not finally get to the Supreme Court.


9 posted on 12/21/2018 7:10:08 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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Didn’t Madcow get the scoop on all this about a year ago?


10 posted on 12/21/2018 7:13:07 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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Sharing tax returns is a scam created by democrats to try to paint republicans as being rich elitists. The only thing that has ever been learned from this ruse is that Hillary Clinton made the taxpayers give her credit for her husband’s used underwear.


11 posted on 12/21/2018 7:16:00 AM PST by Baynative ("A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams." - John Barrymore)
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We might as well investigate health records too. Because HIPAA doesn’t mean sh!t to these tyrants.


12 posted on 12/21/2018 7:16:43 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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It’s legal, the law says Congress can get any persons tax returns. Problem for Dems, Republicans can request Pelosi and Schumer’s tax returns also.


15 posted on 12/21/2018 7:23:37 AM PST by Stevenc131
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If and when he does get them, Neal and the Democrats plan to make the returns public, Congressional sources told NBC News. They believe they can do so by committee vote in a closed session.

They most certainly cannot do so. It's clearly in the statute.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103

26 U.S. Code § 6103 - Confidentiality and disclosure of returns and return information

  (a) GENERAL RULE Returns and return information shall be confidential, and except as authorized by this title—

        (1) no officer or employee of the United States,

        (2) no officer or employee of any State, any local law enforcement agency receiving information under subsection (i)(1)(C) or (7)(A), any local child support enforcement agency, or any local agency administering a program listed in subsection (l)(7)(D) who has or had access to returns or return information under this section or section 6104(c), and

        (3) no other person (or officer or employee thereof) who has or had access to returns or return information under subsection (e)(1)(D)(iii), subsection (k)(10), paragraph (6), (10), (12), (16), (19), (20), or (21) of subsection (l), paragraph (2) or (4)(B) of subsection (m), or subsection (n),

        shall disclose any return or return information obtained by him in any manner in connection with his service as such an officer or an employee or otherwise or under the provisions of this section. For purposes of this subsection, the term “officer or employee” includes a former officer or employee.

19 posted on 12/21/2018 8:31:21 AM PST by Dahoser
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Pelosi, Shummer, AND Mad Max first!!


20 posted on 12/21/2018 8:41:32 AM PST by Vinnie
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"Upon written request from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Secretary shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request, except that any return or return information which can be associated with, or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a particular taxpayer shall be furnished to such committee only when sitting in closed executive session unless such taxpayer otherwise consents in writing to such disclosure."

Sounds like they are expected to keep this info to themselves. Riiiiiiight.

21 posted on 12/21/2018 9:06:47 AM PST by Riflema
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How about Al Sharpton’s tax returns? Oh, that’s right....


22 posted on 12/21/2018 9:08:02 AM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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