“Democrats have spent years justifying any action to get Mr. Trump, and releasing his tax returns is another wrecking ball to standards and norms,” writes the Wall Street Journal editorial board in a new editorial outlining the weak pretext ...
On Wednesday, Ways and Means Democrats voted to release confidential taxpayer information, jeopardizing the right of every American to be protected from political targeting by Congress. Here’s the truth about how their unprecedented and haphazard actions sets a dangerous precedent that will allow majorities in Congress to target their political enemies. Democrats ignore that President ...
As Democrats attempt to justify unleashing a dangerous new political weapon that overturns decades of privacy protections for average Americans that have existed since the Watergate reforms, Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) warned against their politically-motivated action that sets a terrible precedent. Speaking on the House Floor, Rep. Brady noted that ...
Even Democrat Allies Criticize Dems’ “Slapdash and Superficial” Plans to Release President Trump’s Tax Returns Democrats face a storm of criticism for politicizing the tax code by barreling towards the release of confidential tax information of a political enemy, including from the usually ...
After Democrats announced a hearing in which the Ways and Means Committee would review confidential materials, press reports stated that “Trump Tax Returns May Be Released After House Panel Meets Tuesday” (Wall Street Journal, Dec. 16). Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) issued the following statement: “Ways and Means Democrats are ...
To pay for Democrats’ partisan $2 trillion so-called “stimulus” that fueled inflation and pushed our economy towards a recession, the Biden Administration is requiring regular Americans to report when they sell concert tickets at cost, a used couch, or pay their neighbor’s kid to mow the lawn. (READ:
The Biden Administration is going after small independent businesses and the gig economy with their new $600 IRS reporting requirement, Ways and Means Republican Leader Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) warned on “Kudlow” on Fox Business in a conversation with Larry Kudlow and Dr. Art Laffer. “This is part of the whole bank ...
As Democrats supercharged the IRS with billions of dollars in new funding and plans for an army of 87,000 new agents to go after Main Street workers and working families, they went out of their way to dismiss past abuses by the agency. Now, former Clinton Administration Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin and former Obama Administration Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew
If you sold a couch, re-sold tickets at the price you paid, or just did some extra work on the side, you could trigger greater scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service ...
Will Democrats use President Trump’s tax returns for the legislative purpose they claimed to be pursuing, or will they make them public for political purposes? Now that Democrats are on track to receive these confidential documents–despite