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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: Oldeconomybuyer

Anyone asking to see anyone else’s tax returns should have to show their own first. Now THAT could get exciting.


61 posted on 12/13/2018 11:08:15 AM PST by refreshed (But we preach Christ crucified... 1 Corinthians 1:23)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What Law did Trump break that you need his tax returns ,Nancy’s and her Dem minions tax returns would be more interesting


62 posted on 12/13/2018 11:08:24 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Trump has to be laughing is ass off.

All his tax returns will show is that he has very good accountants and tax lawyers, he has a complex business empire with complex tax reporting and that he overpaid his taxes.

They will show that almost everything Trump does is a tax deductible business expense because Donald Trump is virtually never off the clock, a fact we have all become aware of watching the President’s amazing 24/7 dedication to his job.

They will also show that Trump lost tons of money when Congress abruptly ended the complex, counter productive tax shelter real estate laws they had set up as payoffs to donors

The biggest tell on Trump will be what is not on his taxes, which are deductions for charitable donations.

It’s been said Trump donates plenty to good causes, he just treats them as charity and not as a tax deductible expense, which is refreshing in a world where Hillary Clinton took a $50 per pair tax deduction on Bill Clinton’s worn out underwear back before he was famous

63 posted on 12/13/2018 11:09:17 AM PST by rdcbn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why in the world does the House need Trump’s Tax Returns? Don’t they have enough information to study to figure out laws to pass? This is clearly just a big game of political “gotcha!”


64 posted on 12/13/2018 11:09:25 AM PST by Robert357 ( Dan Rather was discharged as "medically unfit" on May 11, 1954.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Thats how government works now? I wasn’t aware that’s what their duty was.


65 posted on 12/13/2018 11:11:53 AM PST by Celerity
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I assume they go to a court, and if there is any real justice, the court laughs them off. There cannot possibly be a congressional oversight issue in seeing tax returns of any private citizen.

It would be interesting if they requested the tax returns from last year.


66 posted on 12/13/2018 11:14:06 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Feckless

“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”

That oughta trigger them!


67 posted on 12/13/2018 11:14:24 AM PST by rockrr ( Everything is different now...)
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To: Yo-Yo

Apparently, she thinks the Obama IRS didn’t do their jobs, because they were part of some Trump collusion strategy.


68 posted on 12/13/2018 11:15:25 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

they will fail.

there is no Constitutional right for the legislative branch to have the tax returns of the head of the executive branch.

none.


69 posted on 12/13/2018 11:18:30 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

On what grounds and under what authority?


70 posted on 12/13/2018 11:19:09 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nan comes to a fight with a knife, Trump brings a gun.


71 posted on 12/13/2018 11:20:22 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: TheConservator
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Thomas Jefferson Well said

72 posted on 12/13/2018 11:21:33 AM PST by FLCowboy, (Democrats relish groveling in the dirt)
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To: cuban leaf

I think the SCOTUS wouldn’t touch this with a ten foot pole.


73 posted on 12/13/2018 11:22:10 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The democrats each day move us closer towards this whole divide going hot.

If it does, no quarter will be given.

5.56mm


74 posted on 12/13/2018 11:24:06 AM PST by M Kehoe (DRAIN THE SWAMP!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Trump lives in Nancy’s head tax free


75 posted on 12/13/2018 11:24:42 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: Jeff Chandler

Remember :

When they have power the Dems always overplay their hand.

They are incapable of self restraint.


76 posted on 12/13/2018 11:25:42 AM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Signalman

not soon enough


77 posted on 12/13/2018 11:26:04 AM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I think it depends on how cut and dried it is. Under what circumstances do they have a right to demand a private citizen’s tax returns?


78 posted on 12/13/2018 11:26:26 AM PST by cuban leaf
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To: CatOwner

Yet Obongo’s college records continue to be impossible to find and that’s ok of course.


79 posted on 12/13/2018 11:27:12 AM PST by gibsonguy
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To: Signalman; Oldeconomybuyer; numberonepal
When does CWII begin?

There's a short list of people/agencies that are allowed to see the confidential IRS PII that the IRS has.

Release his tax returns to the general public, and it means that the IRS promise of confidentiality has been destroyed, and we will no longer have to suffer under the thumb of Treasury Department tyranny.

You will be able to deal with them as armed agents of Despotism.

The Commerce Department has a similar list of people/agencies that are allowed to see the confidential Census PII that the Census Bureau has.

The list has ZERO people/agencies outside the Commerce Department.

This is so people will cooperate with the Census. Otherwise, you could just flip them off.

80 posted on 12/13/2018 11:27:29 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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