Posted on 05/12/2016 6:45:07 PM PDT by Beautiful_Gracious_Skies
Should Donald Trump release his tax returns? It depends on whom you ask. It is not legally required for candidates for public office to release any tax returns. Only tradition requires it. So, perhaps, does the kind of 'nothing to hide' vetting that is supposed to leave no aspect of a candidate's life unexamined.
Even so, should he release them? Trump breaks with many traditions. Moreover, there are some good reasons for him not to release them. It is hard not to observe the whole opposite effect that Trump has spawned. Perhaps the growing and increasingly loud cries for Trump to hand over the returns could have the opposite impact. Here are 10 reasons Mr. Trump might want to stick to his guns and not bother.
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#2 It makes no difference on whether he can be POTUS.
Tell em to get bent until whats his name Hussein releases his records!
“Trump’s response will surely be in kind about Hillary’s private email server, undisclosed speeches and the Clinton Foundation irregularities.”
He is in the middle of an IRS audit. It would be crazy to release them now.
No release. Why feed the critics?
All it would do is give them ammunition.
Plus people will be reminded of Ivana’s divorce settlement. $1 a year but a YUGE chunk of the business.
I don’t care if he is being audited or not.
If your enemies want you to do something, don’t do it.
The people clamoring for him to release his returns are not trying to help him.
>> No release. Why feed the critics? <<
Exactly. Who knows what kind of unwanted or harmful info might be in there? Certainly too dangerous to release.
He could call a presser so the media have no choice but to report it, and say it’s time for a lot more transparency all around. He’ll release his tax return as soon as the audit is complete, provided Hillary also releases the transcripts of her speeches and the results of a paternity test on Chelsea and Bill.
EXCELLENT point, Obama needs to release all of his records.
The fact that Romney has been all over Donald Trump may have improved Trump’s prospects rather than tarnished them.
Perhaps Mitt’s animosity is a good for Mr. Trump; he should postpone and delay to build up mystique.
When Obama releases his real birth certificate with Hell, Earth listed as his birthplace.
Amen, brother.
Isn’t it cute how Romney tweets about Trumps tax returns and Hillary repeats the demand at a rally within hours.
And the media now runs with it.
You don't get much better reasons than that.......
Let’s see Hillary’s tax returns.
Trump should simply say, I asked Hillary if she had any spare room on her server and that’s where I’ve stored my tax returns. Ask her to release the contents of her server and that’s where you can find them.
Better yet, let’s see a complete list of all the donors and the amounts to the Clinton Charity. Then a full accounting of the money spent and where it went.
He should challenge her on this.
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