silly cow
Posted on 06/21/2018 6:05:35 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Rhode Island’s state Senate passed a bill this week that would keep candidates off the presidential ballot in their state if they don’t release five years' worth of tax returns, according to the Providence Journal.
Sen. Gayle Goldin (D), who sponsored the bill, noted that every presidential candidate since Richard Nixon released their tax returns voluntarily until President Trump ran for office.
Trump has repeatedly claimed that he cannot release his tax returns because he is under audit, but the IRS said an audit does not prevent a candidate from releasing their personal tax information.
Goldin argued that “tax returns provide essential information about candidates’ conflicts of interest.”
Tax returns, she continued, are vital information a voter needs to know about a candidate at the ballot box.
The bill passed the Democratic-led majority Senate on a 34-3 vote. It now moves to the Rhode Island state House.
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4 guaranteed Democrat electoral votes for years to come.
Easily struck down in the Federal courts.
Sorry...It’s a Federal Election with Federal Rules...
No different than a poll tax. Instantly unconstitutional.
silly cow
I don’t think this would be constitutional. They may be able to do this for someone running for a State office but not Federal office
I don’t think this would be constitutional. They may be able to do this for someone running for a State office but not Federal office
Just goes to show politicians are more and more stupid and don’t know rules and laws. It will only get worse.
Two years away. Likely here will be another USSC obituary by then and a set 5-4 ruling against it.
Too bad it is not constitutional, as if that ever bothered democrats.
A “bill of attainder” and very unconstitutional.
Yeah, Trump can ill-afford to lose a state in 2020 that he was going to lose anyway.
This will open a real can of worms for states to specify their requirements to run for president.
OMFG. Barack Obama was on all the ballots with absolutely no proof of citizenship before he was handed a ceremonial US Passport when he was a Senator (with no documentation backup). At least Donald Trump has a social security number.
Rhode Island was better off when Ray Patriarca ran the show———I think they have all gone mad.
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Democrats have UNCONSTITUIONAL written across their foreheads and other parts.
Unconstitutional.
But they all FEEL better now that it’s passed.
They never let up.
Any respectable federal court would slap this down so hard it would break its jaw.
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