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I was reading the post above about NYT publication of Trump’s tax information.

I agree with the author completely: “has no more right to Trump’s tax returns than it has to mine or those of any of you reading these words”

I’m hoping this will be the beginning of an opportunity for Trump to eliminate the IRS and the income tax. Probably a long term goal, but I believe this could be setting the stage for that.

I have long been an advocate of abolishing the income tax and the IRS. I hate paying taxes, but that is the least of my reasons.

#1 on my list is that the IRS is an invasion of privacy. It is none of the government’s dam# business where I work or how much money I make. If you think it is, it’s probably because you have been conditioned to accept that all of your life. As far as i can tell, nothing in the Constitution says that the government has any right to know much of anything about you. Aside from being counted in the census, but I don’t think that requires much invasive information. (FReeQs correct me if I’m wrong here.)

2. The IRS can be (and has been) used as a political weapon, as a means of intimidation.

3. The IRS can completely ruin a person’s life. They have vast powers to confiscate assets and you are guilty until proven innocent. This alone seems to violate every principle of a free country.

4. The complexity of tax law creates a huge burden of time and stress on the middle class. The poor don’t have to deal with this (and may even get a “rebate” on taxes they didn’t pay). The rich can afford to pay someone else to deal with it.

5. Tax laws are specifically designed to stick it to the middle class and/or conservatives. Despite DS/leftwing blather about taxing the rich, it doesn’t really happen unless the rich are hardworking conservatives. Think about it this way - If you are a do-nothing politician, swanning around the world and vacationing at taxpayer expense, staying in the finest hotels, dining in the best restaurants, who gets handed a million bucks (or more) of taxpayer money in bribes/corruption/fake income, you would either have that income hidden under the table or if it were overt (like book deals, do-nothing jobs for your spouse (Mooch), sitting on various boards, speaking fees, etc.) you’d have no problem giving back half or even more. I’ll bet any of you reading this, if you were offered a deal to be handed a million bucks a year with the stipulation that you had to give back half, would be delighted to take the deal. The only problem is that a deal like that with the DS comes with evil strings attached.

6. Income tax penalizes work. Work should be rewarded, not penalized.

7. Income tax penalizes honest people. The criminals lie and avoid the tax.

8. Income tax penalizes citizens. Illegals pay no income tax. Visitors (legal) pay no income tax.

I don’t know what the best solution is, but it is definitely NOT income tax. Of all the options I’ve considered, I think a consumption tax is the most reasonable and the most fair. Everyone who buys anything pays it, whether you’re rich or poor, citizen, visitor, illegal. It doesn’t invade your privacy. So long as the government doesn’t start messing around with creating exemptions for things, it would be hard to use as a weapon. The burden of paperwork would fall on businesses which already have to keep records, so I expect it would not be a great additional burden.

https://bigleaguepolitics.com/exclusive-jerry-nadlers-son-works-for-firm-suing-trump-which-presents-conflict-of-interest/
EXCLUSIVE: Jerry Nadler’s Son Works For Firm Suing Trump, Which Presents Conflict of Interest

Published 2 months ago

on Mar 6, 2019

By Patrick Howley

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Democrat congressman Jerry Nadler, leading the investigative charge against President Donald Trump, has a son whose firm is trying to get access to Trump documents for their clients in numerous lawsuits against President Trump.

“Congressman Jerry Nadler has a big conflict,” our source tells Big League Politics in Washington, D.C.

“His son (Michael Nadler) got a job with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP in 2018. That’s convenient because Jerry Nadler and the Democrats just won control of the House in 2018. Gibson Dunn & Crutcher hire Jerry’s son and Gibson Dunn & Crutcher are the main Nemesis against Trump and the Trump Administration on numerous lawsuits. Now the Nadler family will gain access to thousands of Trump documents via Jerry’s subpoenas!,” our insider stated.

Gibson Dunn represented CNN’s Jim Acosta in his lawsuit against the Trump White House after President Trump revoked Jim Acosta’s press credentials for creating a disturbance in a press briefing and making physical contact with a female White House intern. In December Gibson Dunn announced that it was representing the Center for Reproductive Rights in its lawsuit against the Trump State Department concerning abortion language in Trump administration human rights reports. Gibson Dunn’s global co-chairman Ted Boutros sued President Trump in a bid to protect the DACA Dreamer program.
Such an arrangement — Jerry Nadler investigating Trump with his son’s firm trying to get access to documents in other cases — violates ethics rules for federal investigators.