Posted on 04/13/2019 8:41:49 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
FULL TITLE: House Democrats give IRS hard deadline of April 23 to turn over Trump tax returns, say administration’s concerns ‘lack merit’
House Democrats are giving the Trump administration a hard-deadline of April 23 to turn over President Trump’s tax returns, pushing back against Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin’s skepticism over their request for the presidents’ private records.
House Ways and Means Committee Chair Richard E. Neal (D-Mass.) on Saturday sent a two-page letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig rebuffing Mnuchin’s statement earlier this week that Treasury would miss House Democrats’ initial April 10 deadline for the returns.
Mnuchin’s concerns “lack merit,” Neal wrote.
Neal’s latest letter sets the stage for a further escalation in the conflict between Congress and the White House, as legal experts have suggested that an outright denial of their request by Mnuchin could be followed by subpoenas or a lawsuit in federal court. Mnuchin so far has only postponed responding to Democrats’ request and said he would confer with the Justice Department, but not yet rejected it.
“Please know that, if you fail to comply, your failure will be interpreted as a denial of my request,” Neal’s letter states.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
From Godfather II:
Senator Pat Geary:
[exasperated] Okay. Some people need play little games. You play yours. Let’s just say that you’ll pay me because it’s in your interest to pay me. But I want your answer and the money by noon tomorrow. And one more thing. Don’t you contact me again, ever. From now on, you deal with Turnbull.
Michael:
Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.
Can we just load them on the express train to hell their home and be done with them already?
They write the laws, so yes they do feel that they can demand whatever they want.
Of course, the President can veto anything they write, which leads to a veto override situation. Also they have to get their laws through a conference with the Senate, which can block them.
The Constitution is (at least theoretically) the ultimate law, and one would think that Fourth Amendment protections of the privacy of one's "papers," as well as protections under the Fifth Amendment would prevent the passing of a law by Congress that targets an individual for a fishing expedition of one's tax filings; these are certainly "papers," and although one is compelled to hand them over to the executive branch by law, that is done with the presumption of innocence and with the obligation by that agency to protect the filer's Constitutional rights, assuming no crime has been committed.
Trump's tax filings have been OKed by the IRS many times over the years, during Democrat administrations as well as Republican. He has (to my knowledge) never been accused of a crime by the IRS, which (I assume) has audited Trump and his various corporations many times.
This would ultimately come down to a decision in the Judicial Branch, which would end up in the Supreme Court. That could turn into fireworks, as it is possible that a Trump nomination would be pending at the time that a decision on the legality of going after his IRS papers went before the Court.
I'm not a lawyer or a Constitutional scholar, so I could be all wet on one or more of these observations.
Give them nothing period.
It has been determined a long time ago that elected officials do not need a background check for things anyone else would and the reasoning behind that is the voters are the ones that vet the candidates when they elect them.
This should be the same, if voters are concerned about his taxes they can choose to vote for him or not based on him releasing his tax information. Otherwise unless we are going to require everyone that is in office now or runs for office in the future to provide the same information then this should not even be allowed.
I voted for Trump and he does not need to release his tax information to get my vote again. Nothing we wanted to know about Obama was released, and didn’t matter what we wanted to know. Lawsuits were filed and judges kept ruling the people had no standing to sue.
All of this one sided stuff needs to end. If the Democrats can elect someone to president twice without even proving he was a legal candidate then they need to leave President Trump alone about his taxes.
Since the Speaker of the House is third in line for the presidency, her tax returns should also be released. Furthermore, since all members of the House are eligible to be Speaker, their tax returns must be released.
Or what? LMAO
The commish is following the law.
Congress is not.
We given Congress until the 23rd to come to it’s senses.
“don’t you need some probable cause of some financial crime committed”
Not for the President. There’s a law that says, essentially, if there is a legislative purpose then the president must turn over his returns to certain members of Congress.
I don’t believe the constitutionality of that law has been tested. I don’t believe any president has ever been called upon to comply with it.
The democrat controlled House seems destined to destroy what little respect for itself that exists now.
“...Trump’s shit-canning the OPM.
He’s pulling Assange out of his hole and bringing him to the US.
Bill Barr is about to release the Mueller report.
Craig just got indicted, Podesta and others will be next...”
Don’t release anything. It doesn’t matter how “squeaky clean” the President’s tax returns are. The traitors will cherry-pick and twist everything to their advantage.
It’s time to start leaking all the dirt on them.
This is the purpose of the Second Amendment.
These Congress critters have no legal basis to ask the IRS to do this. It’s illegal.
They are just getting started.
Patriots get prepared....
“...House Democrats give IRS hard deadline....”
...or else what? :^)
ESAD, dems.
Nuts ! Try and get my tax return you maggots. The IRS dont even have them. Lol. We are at war. Start acting like it you leftist weanies.
Since Obama's appointee is still in place, he might not be as open to accepting Trump's reasons for privacy. Trump should have replaced him 2 years ago.
Cite?
Look it up. Google “can Congress can the president’s tax returns”
“Shut them down? I can go for that.”
or reduce their budget? ... that works too ...
“All this B.S. is to attempt to deflect from the total fiasco that was the waste of the Mueller investigation, and more importantly, an attempt to make enough noise to deflect from the fact the FBI speed on the Trump campaign and attempted to entrap them in criminal activity.”
that’s true enough, but they’d be doing this anyway because it’s necessary to give the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia something to attack trump with 24x7x365 ...
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