Posted on 06/15/2019 9:03:37 AM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Hans von Spakovsky: Congress has no right to Trump tax returns – Justice Department makes right decision
President Trump won a victory Friday when the Justice Department said Congress does not have the right to see his tax returns. More importantly, all American taxpayers won a victory, because the Justice Department memo regarding Trump’s returns has the effect of upholding the privacy and confidentially of all our tax returns as well.
If Congress is allowed to examine the president’s tax returns, the next step will be demands by lawmakers to examine the tax returns of others – political activists and opponents, members of unpopular groups, religious minorities, and who knows who else.
And if you think this isn’t possible, just think back to the FBI under Director J. Edgar Hoover and the files he kept on many Americans he considered to be dangerous subversives – including civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King.
Even if you can’t stand President Trump and think he should be impeached, remember that giving government the power to act against someone you oppose also gives government the power to act against someone you support – or perhaps even against you personally.
Importantly, the provision of the tax code that Democrats are seeking to use to get Trump’s tax returns could also be used to get the tax returns of other Americans as well, should Trump lose his fight to keep his tax returns confidential.
The 33-page opinion protecting the confidentially of tax returns was written by Assistant Attorney General Steven A. Engel, who heads the Office of Legal Counsel in the Justice Department. It is based on an appropriate reading of the law.
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Al Capone was put away for income tax evasion. If tax returns weren’t secure, how cpuld he have been expected to itemize his illegal sources of income?
Congress is at least as dangerous to the American people (and our liberties, which the D’s are desperately trying to take away from us),....... as is any executive branch agency.
FTA:
“Yet in fact, the reason Democrats want to see the Trump tax returns is blatantly political. They want to use the information in the returns in possible impeachment proceedings against the president and to campaign against Trump’s re-election.”
That’s bad enough, but there’s something far worse: they want to get to everybody with whom either PDJT and/or his family members does business so they and theirs can get to those people and destroy the Trumps by destroying those people.
Excellent point, that’s exactly what they want to do.
Democrats have no shame and will stoop as low as they can to further their agenda.
Bump!
It took 33 pages to say THIS?
Tax information is PRIVATE: Period!
Sad news for the lawless “Death to America” party, and their
Corrupt Coup Media.
Their hatred for Trump is their excuse for tyranny. And it’s a poor excuse.
Could put an end to this by simply doing a deep dive on their lives then fully prosecute their many crimes.
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