by Sandy » Wed Mar 13, 2019 11:12 am
Sometimes it gets difficult to distinguish between house rules and practices for Congress and what the law actually states. There are plenty of regulations on what Congress can use public funds to do. The question is how do those regulations get enforced? The President committed a specific illegal act for which there is evidence in using campaign funds to pay hush money to a couple of porn stars he slept with. But the Republicans ignored it. Laws and policies are meaningless if they are not enforced.
I'm all for seeing the tax returns of anyone running for public office. It is absolutely clear that neither Trump nor the Republicans want anyone to see his tax returns which will reinforce the populist belief that the rich in this country can take advantage of loopholes and wind up getting more money back than was withheld and that they really contribute almost nothing to the treasury, and that it is all working class people who pay the taxes. How many voters, if they had seen the fraud Trump committed with his foundation, taxes, and all of that display would have seen that he was so much worse than Hillary ever thought of being and would have avoided voting for him? If these people are willing to betray the public trust with their money, for their own profit and personal advantage, I don't want them running the government.