About Trump’s Tax Return
I am a Never-Trumper. You could look it up. Donald Trump should never have been let anywhere near the White House, and I assume he cheats on his taxes and lies publicly about what his returns would show if we could see them.
Nevertheless, the Congress should not reveal confidential information from Trump’s tax returns. It’s bad policy and bad politics, even if it is technically not bad law. And, just as the cover-up is worse than the crime, the bullshit excuses the Democrats are offering for releasing Trump’s returns prove exactly what they are claiming the release disproves — the political motive for their actions.
Democrats are defending release of Trump’s returns on the basis of transparency. “You don’t trust us? OK, we’ll show you what we are basing our statements on! You want the receipts? You got the receipts.” (No, that’s not a real quote.)
The release looks legal to me.
The law on the subject is found in Section 6103(f)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code. The relevant language is described as follows in the Joint Committee on Taxation’s report accompanying the bill that became the law:
Returns and return information cannot be disclosed unless a specific exception for such disclosure is provided for in the Code. Section 6103…