Posted on 07/30/2019 11:31:31 AM PDT by rdl6989
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Tuesday signed a bill requiring President Trump to release his tax returns before he can appear on the state's 2020 primary ballot.
Under S.B. 27, called the "Presidential Tax Transparency and Accountability Act," any candidate running for president or governor of California will be required to file copies of the last five years of their tax returns to the California secretary of State.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The minimum requirements for becoming the president of the United States of America are outlined in Article II of the United States Constitution. It says nothing about disclosing your taxes.
Doesn’t the President receive income only for his office while his prior business concerns are held in blind trust? And doesn’t Trump donate 100% of his Presidential salary to charity anyway?
Sure, release those returns.
When is Newson releasing his?
Trump needs to let slip that California election returns won’t be accepted. That’ll get their attention!
Sounds like a bill of attainder.
Expressly forbidden by the Constitution.
Shhhhh... The media won't tell, and the governor won't tell so don't let the Democrats’ useful idiots know. You'd have to start from scratch explaining how the Constitution doesn't allow legislation that feeds, clothes, shelter, or educates them.
After their screams of anguish have died down tell them there are only two conditions a presidential candidate must meet. He must be over thirty-five years old and a natural born citizen. A presidential candidate can be a convicted serial killer but if he is over 35 and a natural born citizen he meets the constitutional requirements.
Trump should just ignore it and then we can see the democrat’s tax return when they get on the ballot.
CA would need a Constitutional Amendment to do this. FAIL.
Unconstitutional.
Under the bullying of the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties, state procedures for electing a president violate express 12th Amendment (12A) procedures for electing POTUS imo, so-called state “winner-take-all” laws for electoral votes for example.
Excerpted from the 12th Amendment: "The Electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President, and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President, and of all persons voted for as Vice- President, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate [emphasis added]; …"
Also concerning 12A, note that the delegates to the Constitutional Convention had never heard of a primary election.
Next, consider that political party blatant disregard for the 12A is also evidence that the political parties are arguably the product of an agreement / compact between the states that the states never got congressional approval for as required by the Constitution’s Article I, Section 10, Clause 3.
"Article I, Section 10, Clause 3: No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State [emphasis added], or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay."
In other words, the rogue political parties are arguably an unconstitutional agreement / compact between the states imo. And how can corrupt, post-17th Amendment Congress approve political parties after the fact since they have introduced major problems with 12A?
Corrections, insights welcome.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
So are they pepared for 2 million write in ballots.
The Constitution is clear on what the requirements are to be a candidate for president. This cannot stand — it would open the floodgates for bogus requirements..
How many
Electoral College votes for California are there?
Could they all be at risk if Newsom tries to enforce this???
How about Kamala’s tax returns?
She IS NOT ELIGIBLE anyway to be President.
Sorry, Gubinor Nuisance.. No banana..
Interfering with the rights of voters to cast ballots for all eligible candidates is a new concept for you and the Left but you’ll get used to it and also illegal, but hey, who cares, right? The local media and a stacked legislature obviously doesn’t.
California is adaptable and soon it will adapt itself out of any semblance of order and the rule of law and only be controlled like a gulag state for the sake of an agenda as deep as the leadership’s ineptness and the abyss it now faces.
It’s an additional qualification for the office, therefore unconstitutional. It’s the same reason why congressional term limits passed in the 1990’s was overturned.
I don’t think that even Traitor Roberts would not allow this.
The FEC only requires an audited P&L.
Fight it in court and if he loses, oh well. We might see some stuff on the Democrats that they might not want seen........
Looks like?
It IS a violation.
California cannot change the Constitution of the United States. They are indeed interfering in the election of our President.
governor Gavin Newsom needs to be raided by the FBI with guns and arrested!
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