Don’t stop at Trump. All candidates for office should disclose their tax returns | Jill Filipovic
This should be a bipartisan issue. And while we’re at it, why are members of Congress allowed to trade stocks?
Finally, at least some of Donald Trump’s tax returns will be released to the public. This is an important step forward for political transparency, but it shouldn’t be the last.
On Tuesday, the House ways and means committee voted to release six years of the former president’s tax returns; the committee also revealed that, counter to standard protocol, the IRS had not audited Trump during his first two years in office – and that the IRS only began their audit once ways and means asked for the returns and audit records. Trump had repeatedly said that he was being audited during those two years, which was untrue.
