Posted on 05/22/2019 7:47:07 AM PDT by Kaslin
Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett said Tuesday that IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin should be jailed or fined for stonewalling congressional subpoenas for President Trump’s tax returns.
Doggett, D-Texas, a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, said Tuesday that congressional Democrats need to employ what's known as "inherent contempt" for Trump officials defying committee requests and subpoenas for Trump’s financial information.
“I believe that there is no legal advice that will stop the lawlessness and lies of this administration, and that is why Congress needs to act firmly now to use every tool it has available to get this information that Trump so fears that the public will see,” Doggett told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Tuesday night.
“To take action, I believe it’s going to require fines or confinement under our power of inherent contempt to get the information we need and to get all these other people that, under what seems to be gang rule, are told don’t say anything and don’t provide anything,” he continued. “Total silence, total obstruction.”
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Well, why don’t they do it? The MSM would back them up.
Let’s revisit that blatantly fraudulent “birth certificate”
This moron is totally off base. There is no legal precedent for this. I say arrest him military style and beat his brains in if he resists.
Don’t remember, how did O’Bummer bury all his documents??
This is soooo ridiculous...and I’m getting soooo tired of their strategy...to rile up the idiots who do not understand what is going on here.
I don’t get this.
Isn’t it a fact, that our IRS filing, including those of any elected official, are confidential? Isn’t it a fact, that such tax information can only be released under certain limited circumstances?
Isn’t it a fact that you can’t just call up the IRS and ask for copies of someone’s tax returns? Isn’t it a fact that we have laws regulating release of tax information, which Democrats apparently want to violate?
I want all papers on all elected members of Congress, Judges and Senate.
Also, a crypto-currency based on tax dollars that tracks all expenditures all the way along the block chain so we can see which ones are screwing us the most.
Also, term limits.
Then we can talk.
YES...but, there are a lot of idiots who don’t know that.
tax returns are confidential by law. laws passed by Congress.
congress-critters who demand people break the law, are more than aiding and abetting a felony... they’re mis- using their public offices/”authority” trying to force lawbreaking
as such, these congress=critters should be rounded up and thrown into prison (tit for tat, the very same “remedy” they threaten to do to the rest of us if we “dare” to “defy” their illegal demands)
Let's add a couple of things to that list:
Any change to congressional or congressional staff pay and benefits must be approved in separate legislation with a mandatory roll call vote.
Any congressional exemptions from legislation must approved in separate legislation with a mandatory roll call vote.
Sexual harassment slush fund records. Why can’t we see those?
Khmer Rouge is getting closer
Called anyone who questioned their authenticity racists?
A hostile IRS already has the tax returns. And you know its been a “hostile” IRS since Trump went after Obama’s birth certificate years back.
You know if there was anything there, they’d have been leaked long ago.
Add Recall to your list.
“I want all papers on all elected members of Congress, Judges and Senate.”
That and the names of all members from either party that used taxpayer’s dollars to settle sexual harassment claims against them.
In fact the Trump Administration should subpoena those records today.
Trump better start releasing documents and Barr better get the indictment going - NOW! Not next week, but now!
So laws are now whatever Dems “deem” them to be? What statue says jail time is required for not doing what they want?
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