Posted on 02/22/2019 6:22:44 AM PST by SMGFan
Oh, give it a rest, guys. While the liberal media and their Democratic allies have been lusting over this Russia collusion nonsense, there is another story they cling to like barnacles: Trump’s tax returns. They want to know them. They think there’s corruption in them, or that there’s something his supporters might not like. I’m skeptical about the latter and absolutely couldn’t; care less about the former. Trump is rich. Rich people have the resources to find loopholes. If everyone had such resources, they all would find the loopholes that could afford them to pay less in taxes. That’s the point. Only an idiot willingly wants to pay more taxes. Trump refused to release his returns during the 2016 election. So, in order to coerce him into doing so, New Jersey passed a bill that would keep Trump off the 2020 ballot if he doesn’t commit to full transparency on this issue. The state senate passed it this week. It now goes to the state assembly, where it could reach Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy’s desk. It’ll probably pass. The Garden State is a deep blue state, where the Democrats control all in Trenton (via The Hill):
The New Jersey state Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly voted to pass a bill that would keep presidential candidates off the state’s 2020 ballot unless they release their tax returns. According to the Courier Post, the Democratic-controlled state Senate passed the measure along party lines in a 23-11 vote on Thursday, sending the bill to the Assembly committee and full legislature for a vote before it heads to the desk of Gov. Phil Murphy (D) for consideration. The controversial measure would deny candidates for president and vice president a spot on the state ballot if they do not publicly release five of their most recent tax returns at least 50 days before the general election in 2020. The bill, if passed, would also bar the state’s electors from voting for candidates for president and vice president as part of the Electoral College system if they choose not to comply with the legislation.
It’s gonna pass. But who cares? There’s no way NJ elects Trump so this has just been an effing waste of taxpayer money.
Gonna be interesting to see them Dem tax returns....
Unconstitutional as it adds requirements for the office not found in the Constitution.
Dims can’t even figure out how a tax cut works (see crying about their tax refunds or now owing taxes) so how are they gonna figure out Trump’s tax returns once they get them (illegally of course like Cohen’s)?-)
[But who cares? There’s no way NJ elects Trump so this has just been an effing waste of taxpayer money.]
As a NJ resident, I care.
If Trump is not on the ballot, then whatever Repubs that are left won’t bother voting at all, guaranteeing all down-ballot races to be at risk for Democrats to win, including reliability consistant Republican cities and townships.
Unconstitutional. They cannot place additional qualifications beyond the Constitutional requirements.
Next they’ll make it illegal for a Republican to be on the ballot.
Perhaps. But I would imagine those showing up to vote for Trump would still do so and vote down ticket. Maybe not. Hell, if Trump weren’t on the ballot last time I’d have gone and voted for anyone else just not to vote for Hildebeast.
Does the state of New Jersey represent all of it’s citizens or just the ones that vote Democrat? This is insanity.
Since the election did not consider the candidates, the electors from New Jersey will be turned away from the gathering to count electoral votes.
They have legitimate concerns? Well, then..why stop with presidential and vice presidential candidates?
Red states should just pass a bill to award their EV to the GOP candidate regardless of election outcome.
From where I sit, I would call this voter suppression. In the real sense this time.
Yeah, I'm thinking 2020 might get REAL messy.
As in "if the Democrats win, they didn't really win, because a REAL Resistance is gonna form"...
#FakeElection
The NJ conservativeso better find DINOS to run in ‘Rat primaries.
Why that is not being done already all over the country is beyond me.
OMG - and they don’t see how this is going to backfire among Democrats? We already know they think they are above the law. Can you imagine the tax records of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders for starters? I think there was a point when DJT said he would release his tax records as soon as Hillary did.
It will be interesting to see exactly who is on the ballot. More likely they will just be boycotting the election in 2020.
Bingo! Again, wasting tax payer money as this is dragged into court.
They cannot place additional qualifications beyond the Constitutional requirements.
This wouldn’t be the first time that a democrat state kept a Republican off of the ballot. Lincoln wasn’t on the ballot of southern states in the election of 1860, so there is precedent for the move. Of course, in the long run, it didn’t work out for the southern states, so there’s that.
If NJ or another dem state wants to do this, let them it will show the country and the world how deranged, crooked and undemocratic the dems are. It’s not that DJT is likely to have a chance of winning those electoral votes anyway.
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