Posted on 04/30/2017 9:51:37 AM PDT by ColdOne
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Democrats have hatched a plan to get a look at Donald Trump's tax records by crafting a piece of legislation designed to get at his state returns that does everything but mention the Republican president by name.
The bill introduced this month in New York's Senate and Assembly would require the state to release five years of state tax information for any president or vice president who files a New York state return.
While Trump's state return wouldn't include all the details from his federal return, it would offer the public much more information about the president's potential conflicts of interest or how his finances would be impacted by his own tax cut proposal, according to supporters.
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If this passes and WHEN it goes to court this type of skullduggery is a perfect example of when “intent” becomes an issue before the court.
Even so, Trump would do well to change his primary residence from New York to Florida — or maybe even his golf course in New Jersey (if possible). He’d still have to file New York State and NYC tax returns for income from his New York properties, but it would be great to deprive them of tax revenue from his other sources. It would also send a strong message that they shouldn’t bite the wealthy hands that feed them.
[[Thank you, my first thought as well.]]
Really? My first thought was “When’s lunch gonna be ready”? but then again, I’m a simple man
It’s still a Bill of Attainder.
IMHO didn’t the nation recently demonstrate how unimportant Trump’s tax returns, Federal and State, are?
If these returns were important to the electorate, nation wide, how did Trump become President?
IMHO didn’t the nation recently demonstrate how unimportant Trump’s tax returns, Federal and State, are?
If these returns were important to the electorate, nation wide, how did Trump become President?
They’re aiming at 2020.
Scotus has ruled more than once about retroactive civil laws. Allowed. I believe kennedy was a swing vote on the one that involved estate law.
Different court could change it.
Going after Trump would firmly rest in the column of degrading peoples' lives. We finally have a president who seems genuinely interested in protecting and nurturing America, and these anal orifices are doing everything they can think of with their puny infantile minds to put roadblocks in his way.
LMAO, what makes one think that?
How about these nitwit politicians in my home state get a plan together to get rid of this MS 13 problem on Long Island . I was a cop for 24 years and never had any use for these morons!!!!.. Yea, great job!!!. Going after President Trump tax returns!!!!! This is why we need a second revolution!
If you were a NYSer, you’d be doing what a lot of us are doing: leaving.
And it would violate federal law, because federal returns are part of a state return. If a state wanted to have an income tax that did not attach the federal one, that didn’t rely on federal AGI, that didn’t have deductions for federal taxes paid, then maybe they could have an argument that a state tax return was not covered by federal privacy laws. That is not the situation in any state.
A bill clearly targeting one person - even if the language is supposedly neutral - should have a hard time getting past the “equal protection” and “bill of attainder” clauses.
I just have, this uneasy gut feeling, that it is.
The power to tax is the power to destroy and the income tax give the Feds the power to destroy American taxpayers. The income tax has to die because it has turned every American into a plantation slave.
Violating confidentiality. They are committing a crime, even if they pass a law to allow it. Any such law is invalid on its face and not binding.
This is hilarious. As the taxes he would have to give up would be last years, and you can be assured Obama’s little army at the IRS and the ultra liberal New Jersey Auditor’s office has already gone over them with that famous comb, what difference does it make other than the release of Clinton’s emails or Obama’s British birth certificate from Kenya. (He’s a duel citizen, wonder why)
rwood
Lets get the skinny on the NY lawmakers out there, where do they live what do they drive, how much taxes they paid. Open the books on them as well.
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