(March 18, 2017 at 12:10 pm)alpha male Wrote:(March 16, 2017 at 10:34 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Okay, so, evidently, Trump didn't have anything to hide. The big question is, since every president since Jimmy Carter, and even the vast majority of major party candidates, have released at least one tax form to the public, I have to ask: WHAT WAS THE FUCKING PROBLEM?
Especially given that he gave the same old "I'm being audited" excuse (and didn't even say there was no point in doing so, which would be a reasonable point) that did not hold up at all, if they revealed this little dirt, what was the point in being so reluctant?
Remember when Romney released his and was only paying like 15% or something? That's what the problem was. Trump probably had losses offsetting his recent income and knew that it was better to release nothing, than to release something showing him paying a low effective rate.
Like I said, he could easily have said he didn't see the point in doing so. Remember how, during the leadup to the 2008 election, Obama decided to not wear a flag lapel pin because it was a meaningless gesture? Trump could have easily done the same thing, especially since I honestly didn't know that presidential candidates releasing their tax forms to the public was really a thing that happened until the controversy regarding Trump's nondisclosure started making the news. You'd think that would make it seem a bit less like he had something to hide.
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