March for Trump's taxes

[BBMW]

If the public considered this the case, they wouldn't have elected him. The did, so the don't.

Time to move on.

Originally Posted by TizOnly1

All of this is true.

None of it matters to the issue at hand. The American public needs to know that they have a president that isn't financially entangled in ways that compromise us. For a guy we KNOW has had to rely on foreign money to survive at all, it's important that we know what's going on, to the best of our ability to know.

Conservatives should care about this... but of course, everyone's a cheerleader for "their" party these days, and nobody has any baseline standards anymore.



I WILL say that Trump's case is different from most. As an international businessman who also happens to be president.. releasing his financial information DOES potentially open himself up to having rival states enact policies that target him personally. For any other president in modern history, that wouldn't really matter (most aren't anywhere near as wealthy, and the Bushes have money in industries that can't be manipulated so easily), but for Trump it is a legitimate concern.

Of course, I haven't actually heard Trump himself raise this concern.. he keeps BS'ing about the audit.



I'd be all for that too.

There still does need to be some level of scrutiny paid to all public servants, and obviously, to the one in our highest office. Even if it was some theoretical "non-partisan" body that could look at the returns, without divulging anything unless there were specific concerns.. there needs to be some mechanism in place. Allowing Trump, a guy that is knowingly leveraged to foreign money, to get away with not showing his returns on the flimsy arguments he keeps making isn't the answer.

[TizOnly1]

Originally Posted by BBMW

If the public considered this the case, they wouldn't have elected him. The did, so the don't.

Time to move on.

1. That logic is terrible. The public electing Trump isn't a sign that they didn't care about this issue. It just says that the issue wasn't a complete disqualifier. In a two-person race, against a very flawed candidate, a win doesn't even come close to implying that nothing about the winner is a concern for the public.

Add in the fact that Trump actually lost the popular vote (the only count that matters if you're trying to get an idea of what "the public" thinks), and what you just wrote becomes even more a pile of mush than it already was.

2. The public is dumb anyway. Who cares what they think?

There are clear and present issues with having a guy like Trump in office, without even a cursory understanding of his current financial position. I don't care if 99% of the public didn't care. They'd be wrong.