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NY lawmakers hatch plan to release Trump's state taxes
ap.org ^ | 4/30/17 | DAVID KLEPPER

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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To: ColdOne

21 posted on 04/30/2017 10:37:44 AM PDT by HarleyLady27 ( "The Force Awakens!!!"...Trump and Pence: MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!)
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To: ColdOne

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.


22 posted on 04/30/2017 10:39:51 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Living Free in NH

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.


23 posted on 04/30/2017 10:44:08 AM PDT by Alberta's Child
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To: Chaguito

[[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


24 posted on 04/30/2017 10:46:54 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ColdOne

It’s still a Bill of Attainder.


25 posted on 04/30/2017 10:47:01 AM PDT by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: SandRat

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?


26 posted on 04/30/2017 10:50:45 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: SandRat

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?


27 posted on 04/30/2017 10:50:47 AM PDT by Nip (BOHEICA and TANSTAAFL - both seem very appropriate today.)
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To: dontreadthis

They’re aiming at 2020.


28 posted on 04/30/2017 10:53:45 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: dontreadthis

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.


29 posted on 04/30/2017 11:03:40 AM PDT by RummyChick (can we switch Don,Jr for Prince Kush and his flak jacket. From Yacht Party to Warzone ready to wear.)
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To: ColdOne
Well, it's not like the NY Senate has anything truly useful to do, so they have to make up work to justify their miserable (and I mean miserable) existence. They are are busy trying to run NY as a sanctuary state and redistribute taxpayer money to illegal criminals, cut the pensions of people who worked for decades and who depend on those pensions, and otherwise degrade the life of NYers.

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.

30 posted on 04/30/2017 11:04:38 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: SandRat
Something in my gut says this may be unconstitutional, illegal and criminal, but I don’t know for sure.

LMAO, what makes one think that?

31 posted on 04/30/2017 11:13:48 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ColdOne

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!


32 posted on 04/30/2017 11:16:24 AM PDT by MGunny
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To: upchuck

If you were a NYSer, you’d be doing what a lot of us are doing: leaving.


33 posted on 04/30/2017 11:16:41 AM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: dontreadthis

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.


34 posted on 04/30/2017 11:28:57 AM PDT by Defiant (The media is the colostomy bag where truth goes after democrats digest it.)
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To: ColdOne

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.


35 posted on 04/30/2017 11:52:00 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: shanover

I just have, this uneasy gut feeling, that it is.


36 posted on 04/30/2017 11:57:56 AM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: ColdOne

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.


37 posted on 04/30/2017 12:15:40 PM PDT by WMarshal (President Trump, a president keeping his promises to the American people. It feels like winning.)
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To: ColdOne

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.


38 posted on 04/30/2017 12:37:43 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Cleverly destroying leftist idols with great gusto.)
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To: ColdOne

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


39 posted on 04/30/2017 12:53:38 PM PDT by Redwood71
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To: ColdOne

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.


40 posted on 04/30/2017 1:11:57 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (Trump plays chess the rest are still playing checkers)
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