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Pelosi says House Democrats will begin process to obtain Trump tax returns
Reuters ^ | December 13, 2018 | by Ginger Gibson

Posted on 12/13/2018 10:36:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON - Nancy Pelosi said Democrats will begin to seek President Donald Trump’s tax returns - a move likely to prompt outrage from the White House - when they take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in January.

The House Ways and Means Committee will “take the first steps,” said Pelosi, who has the backing of her members to become the next speaker of the House in January.

“There is popular demand for the Congress to request the president’s tax returns,” she said, speaking to reporters. “I’m sure the White House will resist, so the question is where do we go from there.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
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To: Reno89519

What returns?


101 posted on 12/13/2018 12:26:11 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I guess the rule of law means nothing any more.

Let’s just do whatever we feel like doing.


102 posted on 12/13/2018 12:28:08 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

The way I state that proposition is:

If there is no law

There is no law.

In a lawless society, many are living on borrowed time. They have no protection


103 posted on 12/13/2018 12:29:49 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: Signalman

I’m not wearing a yellow vest for it.


104 posted on 12/13/2018 12:30:46 PM PST by Clean_Sweep
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...so the question is where do we go from there.”

Nancy I have a suggestion, but you’ve heard me say it to you before.


105 posted on 12/13/2018 12:34:17 PM PST by Forty-Niner (The barely bare, berry Bear formily known as Ursus Arctos Horrilibis (or U.A. Californicus))
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To: bert

Hi guy, I hope you are doing well.

“What returns?”

Yep. Personal or business? If personal, that is a Bill of Attainder.

Plus, even if the business returns were confiscated, the democrats and their co-conspirators couldn’t read or understand them anyway. Would take leftist CPAs years.

Me 18 months.

5.56mm


106 posted on 12/13/2018 12:34:22 PM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Trump should immediately unseal all of Øbozo's hidden records.

That would take the wind out of the liberals' sails.

107 posted on 12/13/2018 12:38:45 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Feckless
In the meantime he should direct the IRS to audit every last one of them.

I've argued for years that a president, any president, should order the Audit from Hell (Taxpayer Compliance Measurement Audit) for every Member of Congress, governor, committee chairs and ranking members, and mayors, city council chairs, and county council chairs of all local jurisdictions with over one million people. Basically, audit the ranking members of America's political class, across the board and every year. Tell them that this will continue permanently, and if Congress doesn't like the hassle, Congress can pass real tax reform that massively simplifies the system.

Any president who does this will be reelected in a landslide.

108 posted on 12/13/2018 12:42:26 PM PST by sphinx
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To: sphinx

That should be: committee chairs and ranking members of state legislatures.


109 posted on 12/13/2018 12:43:23 PM PST by sphinx
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’d like to see President Trump get the tax returns,

So would I but there are laws that bar that. Nixon used to get tax returns and it got those who provided them into trouble.

There is a law wherein the joint tax committee has authority to see the president’s returns. She is not on that committee. IMO, if any info were to leak after they got his returns, or anyone elses, Trump should pull out all stops in insuring those who did it go to jail.


110 posted on 12/13/2018 12:44:20 PM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fishing expeditions are unconstitutional. But who is going to enforce the law?

#OpenPath


111 posted on 12/13/2018 12:46:00 PM PST by Kalamata (How to interpret The Revelation: http://bibleresearchtools.com/bible-study-video-series/)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Someone there should find where pelosi got all her money.. how much she raked in from special interest. Get her returns also.

And... obama set up a new law... use the IRS to stop those he did not like.


112 posted on 12/13/2018 12:50:16 PM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: cuban leaf

I am surprised they have not been leaked already! There has to be a few unscrupulous Rats running around the IRS! Sure, all access should be tagged with the requestor, but they would simply say, hacked! Or, I didn’t lock my computer, or some other crap. Once it is out, it cannot be put back.


113 posted on 12/13/2018 1:00:27 PM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Yo-Yo

The real reason the Democrats what Trump’s tax returns is to leak selected portions of them to imply that there is malfeasance. They know well enough that if there really were any irregularities, they would have been resolved years ago. Again, fishing expedition.


114 posted on 12/13/2018 1:03:47 PM PST by JWNM
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To: rightwingcrazy
the Constitution is only supposed to be dusted off and used when needed to achieve some leftist political end.

Fixed it

115 posted on 12/13/2018 1:17:03 PM PST by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And how much is this going to cost taxpayers?
For the life of me, I know absolutely no one who cares about this issue.


116 posted on 12/13/2018 1:35:05 PM PST by keats5
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s gone.


117 posted on 12/13/2018 1:38:28 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

PRESIDENT TRUMP MUST DO THIS! HE MUST GIVE THEM HIS TAX RETURNS!

He should do so on the eleventy-fifth of Nevervember.


118 posted on 12/13/2018 1:41:55 PM PST by Lazamataz (You know, when I advised Democrats to vote AFTER Nov 6th, I didn't think they'd actually DO it.)
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To: M Kehoe

I suspect that Forbes would jump on the case and prepare fake news articles.

As a 40 year Frorbes subscriber, I am disgusted at their not only never Trump but anti Trump attitude


119 posted on 12/13/2018 1:42:56 PM PST by bert ( (KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Invade Honduras. Provide a military government)
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To: Lazamataz
He should do so on the eleventy-fifth of Nevervember.

Absolutely .

120 posted on 12/13/2018 1:46:05 PM PST by timestax
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