Where are Trump's tax records?

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The funniest thing about this controversy is democrats really don't want Trump's tax records made public as they will prove Trump has been more generous with his money than any democrat presidential candidate in the last 100 years!

Democrats are never generous with their own money!

Democrats are only ever generous with other people's money!

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http://constitution.com/whos-dangerous-president/

[wmdn_bs]

Wilson suffered a serious stroke while in office, bs, you fucking ignorant idiot.

He recovered and completed his term. He wasn't disqualified as you implied. Why are you so immature, insisting on name calling in every post?

[duke_john]

Why are you so stupid?  Why do you play that idiocy game?

[WWV10MHZ]

Mr. Trump has repeatedly said his records are at the IRS being audited.  Where have you Libs/Dems/Fags been? ? ? ? ?

And, you can be SURE that SOBama's IRS Auditors are giving those records a total anal search up to their elbows!!!!!

[keep-left]

WTF does an audit have to do with anything?  People that push that kind of money are audited EVERY YEAR!
Personally, I don't mind that he's hiding them.  I know he's a crook, a liar, a cheat and a fraud as he's already been exposed in some of his schemes, loan defaulting, bilking contractors and relying on the government to bail him out with socialist taxpayer money.
By not releasing his returns, all he will do is alienate voters.  His core base doesn't care about his returns, but his core base just a minute portion of the electorate.  Withholding those records is a Lose-Lose for Trump, which makes it a Win-Win for America!



GOP Activists to RNC Delegates: Don't Vote for Trump Unless He Releases Tax Returns

A group of Republican activists from Vermont and Virginia have written a letter to the delegates attending the Republican National Convention, urging those delegates to withhold their vote for Donald Trump unless and until the New York businessman releases his tax returns.


"Your due diligence as delegates requires that you demand full financial disclosure, including tax returns, as a condition for placing a candidate's name in nomination, and that you favor a ruling allowing abstentions by delegates otherwise bound by state provisions," reads the letter in part. The signers refer to an unvetted Trump candidacy as a "pig in a poke."


Signed by four GOP activists from Vermont—John Ennis, Sam Ennis, Frank Gado, and John MacGovern—along with Mark Shepard of Virginia, the letter argues delegates deserve transparency from their presumptive nominee:

Transparency is even more important in this election than in previous four decades, when release of a candidate's tax returns became perfunctory. The voters have every right to insist on the same full disclosure of tax returns with which presidential candidates over that long period complied, and the Republican Party has a right to demand that disclosure before awarding its nomination. The absence of those records will both blunt the Republican candidate's proper attack on the Clinton secrecy and increase the vulnerability of all 2016 Republican candidates.

Moreover, having never run for public office before, Trump has never been vetted as a candidate for office, even for a US House seat. Trump states that he will make his tax records public once the audit is over—quite possibly, after the election. Is this an acceptable standard for future elections? Meanwhile, the possibility that the Trump information will be leaked by Mr. Obama's IRS will hang over the campaign, permitting the Democrats to insinuate, once again, that the GOP protects the rich and extorts the middle class; then to disclose the leak to the media in the last week of the campaign for maximum impact.


Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican nominee, has called on Trump to release his tax returns in March and again in May. "There is only one logical explanation for Mr. Trump's refusal to release his returns: there is a bombshell in them. Given Mr. Trump's equanimity with other flaws in his history, we can only assume it's a bombshell of unusual size," Romney wrote last month.

The activists' letter is the latest in a series of loosely coordinated efforts to influence delegates at next month's convention in Cleveland to block Trump's nomination. Among the largest and most organized of these movements is Free the Delegates 2016, which seeks to allow delegates to be unbound on the first ballot and vote on conscience.


Read the full letter below:

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Dear Convention delegates:

From the very beginning of the primaries, mistrust of the political establishment has driven a rebellion at the ballot box. It gave major impetus to the astonishing success of Senator Sanders, and fueled the string of victories by Donald Trump, who stressed his "authenticity" How ironic, then, that the Republican presumptive nominee, confronted by repeated calls for release of his tax returns, has taken refuge behind a claim, broadly dismissed as specious by legal experts, that an audit prevents it.

Trump himself has emphasized the corruptive effect of large infusions of money to politicians, pointing to the exorbitant fees Wall Street paid to Hillary Clinton, ostensibly for her speeches, and challenged her to make the texts of the speeches pubic so voters might judge whether the fees were actually disguised influence peddling. Even more troubling are the huge sums contributed to the Clinton Foundation, impeachable not only because of conflict-of-interest issues but also because the route of those contributions accommodate money laundering. Trump, quite appropriately, has also shone a bright light on his Democratic counterpart's proclivity for clandestine conduct.

Why then, has he not been forthcoming when it comes to his tax returns? He assures us that they contain no surprises and expects us to "take [his] word." But isn't this an echo of Hillary Clinton's assurances that there were no classified documents sent over her private server, her refusal to provide the text of her speeches, and her indignation at being asked to divulge details she has fought to keep under wraps?

Transparency is even more important in this election than in previous four decades, when release of a candidate's tax returns became perfunctory. The voters have every right to insist on the same full disclosure of tax returns with which presidential candidates over that long period complied, and the Republican Party has a right to demand that disclosure before awarding its nomination. The absence of those records will both blunt the Republican candidate's proper attack on the Clinton secrecy and increase the vulnerability of all 2016 Republican candidates.

Moreover, having never run for public office before, Trump has never been vetted as a candidate for office, even for a US House seat. Trump states that he will make his tax records public once the audit is over—quite possibly, after the election. Is this an acceptable standard for future elections? Meanwhile, the possibility that the Trump information will be leaked by Mr. Obama's IRS will hang over the campaign, permitting the Democrats to insinuate, once again, that the GOP protects the rich and extorts the middle class; then to disclose the leak to the media in the last week of the campaign for maximum impact.

What we request here is simply a condition to be met by any presidential candidate: full disclosure, before Republican Party nomination, of federal tax filings, a practice accepted as normal by candidates of both parties for almost half a century. If our candidate has nothing to hide, he has nothing to fear. If there is something that will not satisfy public scrutiny, he, the Party, and the nation will suffer.

We, the undersigned, beg you, as delegates, not to certify a pig in a poke. Your due diligence as delegates requires that you demand full financial disclosure, including tax returns, as a condition for placing a candidate's name in nomination, and that you favor a ruling allowing abstentions by delegates otherwise bound by state provisions.

Sincerely yours,

John Ennis, Vermont

Sam Ennis, Vermont

Frank Gado, Vermont

John MacGovern, Vermont

Mark Shepard, Virginia


http://www.weeklystandard.com/gop-activists-to-rnc-delegates-dont-vote-for-trump-unless-he-releases-tax-returns/article/2003052

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GOP Rep. Sanford: Trump's refusal to release tax returns will damage transparency



Donald Trump’s refusal to release his tax returns could shatter the transparency of the democratic process for future generations in presidential and down-ballot races, Republican Rep. Mark Sanford said Sunday.

The South Carolina congressman, who plans to support his party’s nominee despite his bombastic rhetoric, argued in a New York Times op-ed that â€

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Even Donald Trump Says if Presidential Candidates Won't Release Tax Returns, 'Something's Wrong'

Top Senate Finance Committee Democrat: 'Releasing Your Tax Returns Should Not Be Optional'

Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine just released their tax returns – for their 2015 taxes. Clinton had already posted her tax returns going back to 2007, and the Clintons have made their tax returns public since 1977. Kaine also just made his joint tax returns for the past 10 years, going back to 2006 public.

Donald Trump is still actively refusing to release his tax returns, claiming he is under an IRS audit. Trump refuses to provide proof from the IRS that he is under audit, instead providing a letter from his tax attorneys claiming he is under audit. Even if Trump is currently under audit, there is no legal requirement prohibiting him from releasing his tax returns – even billionaire Warren Buffett said he would make his returns public – he says he is also under an IRS audit – if Trump would.

67 percent of likely voters, according to the conservative polling organization Rasmussen in a just-released poll, believe presidential candidates should show at least the past year's tax returns.

Why must Trump release his taxes?

NPR today has an excellent article explaining exactly why, with a good deal of background, that unsurprisingly includes Richard Nixon. But here's the gist, excerpted from NPR's article:
1. Conflicts of interest: Almost every candidate who runs for public office is fairly wealthy. (Even the candidates who have the government pay their salary, like Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden, make far more money than the average American.) Because of that wealth, how they made their money (we'll get to heart in a second) can tell you if they have potential conflicts of interest – who they made that money from.

2. Do they have heart? Tax returns tell us how much candidates give to charity. The Clintons, as noted above, gave between 8 and 15 percent – or about $15 million total — during that eight-year period. Most of that went through the Clinton Family Foundation, as The Atlantic reported. They also contributed to the Nelson Mandela Foundation, First United Methodist Church and the Humana Challenge golf tournament.

3. Are they like us? Again, these candidates are much wealthier than the average American. Median household income in this country is $53,482, according to the Census. The Clintons made $28 million in 2014 (mostly from speeches). They also live in a posh New York suburb of Chappaqua, where they bought their home for $1.7 million in 1999 just before leaving the White House. (In 2016 money, that appreciates to about $2.5 million.) The average home price in the U.S. in June 2016 was $358,000 (median home price was $307,000).
Now it's time for more Republicans to demand Trump release his taxes.

http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/releasing_your_tax_returns_should_not_be_optional

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Most of the R's who served with Bush are not in the Trump corner and will not vote for him they say...or perhaps it is just bluster. He thinks he can win without them... and perhaps he can. They are the established R's who don't seem to like Trump.  However they seem not to understand that he is the choice of the people.

Yet, Trump makes appearances about twice per day and his crowds are almost always at capacity.  I have two friends who drove about 45-50 miles from here a week or so ago to hear him speak.  The primary stadium held about 10,000 at full capacity, they told me that they could not get into the primary stadium that it was full - and they said that was 3 hours before he was to speak, and that they had to go into a separate area or large room...However Trump did come into their room and said a few words and thanked them all for coming.

Yet, we hear that Hillary can perhaps get 3 or 400 supporters to one of her speeches.

We all know a bit about our liberal media and perhaps they ain't being honest with the American people when they talk about the pole numbers.

Suppose we'll know in 90 days or so.

PSKeep left...Who are these people and what are they running for?

John Ennis, Vermont

Sam Ennis, Vermont

Frank Gado, Vermont

John MacGovern, Vermont

Mark Shepard, Virginia

4 from Vermont and one from Virginia.  Trump can't win Vermont no matter what...

[duke_john]

The MSM is definitely not honest, pushing Hillary every chance they get.  I see many more Trump signs than I see for the Hag.

[chuck_curtis]

Obama could get the audit completed tomorrow if he gave the order.  There must not be much there to hide after all.  The shysters are certainly not beyond leaking the information on his returns anyway.