Discussion: Dem Senator’s Bill Would Require Presidential Nominees To Release Taxes

Dem Senator Ron Wyden (R-OR)

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Yes please. Let’s fast track this one, Paul Ryan. Pretend it’s a Florida right to cease life support situation.

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The fill-in copy editor got Corker’s party correct on another thread. The regular copy editor must have felt better and showed up for work.

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Definitely a shot across the bow for any “insurgent” candidates who believes they can enter a political Party without meeting the requirements for that Party.

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Ah, but President Trump vetoed it, saying, “It’s none of your business.”

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My guy, I loves me some Wyden!

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“Dem Senator Ron Wyden (R-OR)”

They’re just saying you can hear him roar, pardon the l33t spelling.

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This is not broad enough. It should apply to any federal(and, if legal, for local/state) election.

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Trump: This is what democrats do when I am leading. Crooked Dems want Crooked Hillary to win.I rather withdraw then show my loopholes to public to avoid paying any taxes.

Would Wyden be a good VP candidate? He’s from the West. He’s popular both with Silicon Valley types and anti-surveillance types. He’s strong on reforming our electoral system. I don’t know much else about him…

Unfortunately, both the house and the senate have scheduled votes to repeal healthcare on the 2 days they are planning on ‘working’ this decade. Probably not going to make it to a vote.

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Now that it has scared the crap out of Trump, what are the chances of this actually becoming a law? Are there enough GOPers with the spine to vote for it?

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Hundred millionaire Donald Trump…

I love it, but I’d like it extended to ALL presidential candidates, if that’s even possible. There’s a reason Sanders hasn’t released his returns as promised and the reasons for his refusal to do so might’ve been as potentially devastating for Dems as Trump’s are for the GOP.

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As a law it will go nowhere but it’s not bad for a headline. If Trump supporters let him get away with not showing his returns than they must realize that any candidate they support in the future can do the same. On the other hand they don’t seem to care, at present, about any malfeasance by him now or in the past.

The Senate’s in session 124 days this year, and they’ve already spent some of those days writing strongly worded letters to Facebook telling them to lay off conservatives. I’ve abandoned any hope that when anyone even a member of Congress proposes Congress do something it will eventually be done.

Talk about being a day, or several election cycles, late and a dollar short!

You gotta love Wyden!!!

As well as a certified copy of their birth certificate, with full access to their natal hospital records as it relates to Art. II, Sec. I, Cl. 5 of the presidential qualification clause.