SHOULD PRESIDENT TRUMP RELEASE HIS TAX RECORDS?

            It’s back to square one as far as the Democrat-liberal led protesters are concerned. To celebrate April 15, tax filing day, thousands across the United States took to the streets waving flags, shouting slogans and generally making a nuisance of them. Why you may ask? All because President Donald Trump has continued to refuse to make public his business or personal tax returns.

It matters little that there is no obligation or law for the president to do so. The idea of releasing tax returns started with former President and peanut farmer Jimmy Carter. Prior to that no president going back from Carter, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Truman, Roosevelt and all the way to the adoption of the current tax system.

It was the year of 1862 when then President Abraham Lincoln created the Internal Revenue Service to pay for the War Between the States. Ten years later the tax was repealed but only until 1994. Congress, in its incredible wisdom re-enacted the income tax idea but the Supreme Court held the law unconstitutional the next year.

It took a constitutional amendment to reintroduce the idea of the IRS. Congress then passed the 16th Amendment giving the congress the authority to level a one per cent tax on net personal incomes above $3,000. For incomes of more than $500,000 folks were hit with a whopping six percent surtax.

Then came World War One and Democrat President Woodrow Wilson. Taxes were increased to 77 per cent but in the post war years the rate dropped to 24 percent in 1929. After the crash of ‘29 came the Great Depression which wiped out hundreds of thousand fortunes.

When the United States entered World War II, congress introduced the quarterly withholding tax system that persists to the present day.

Things seemed to progress smoothly until the 1950’s when the government decided to make the IRS more professional by hiring so-called objective employees. Since then the agency has developed into a political friendly organization occupied by unelected bureaucrats who have used their position to prosecute the enemies of their personal affiliation.

Such a scandal hit when former IRS Commissioner Lois Lerner testified before the House Oversight Commission regarding the targeting by the agency of conservative opponents. It seems whenever any conservative organization sought tax relief they were shot down by Lerner and her team.

Appearing before the committee she claimed her right to enact her constitutional right under the protection of the Fifth Amendment and clam up regarding her illegal decisions! She wasn’t going to say a word that would incriminate her abusive actions as IRS commissioner.

As a political tool the IRS and political hacks has used tax records as fodder for those out to destroy anyone they take exception to. And this abuse includes going after the current holder of the White House President Donald J Trump.

Yet an honest question should be asked; is it anyone’s business seeking tax returns from another Untied States citizen out of curiosity? If you should have a beef with your neighbor or just curious about how they make a living, saved or spent their money or what they are paying in taxes, is it really any of your business?

The liberals believe that they have such a right. They claim that they need information to prove any nefarious activity of a taxpayer. They claim they should be able to examine documents proving the taxpayer in question is committing some sort of crime even though there is no proof or violation of law or any objective information relating to any wrongdoing. Better yet they hope the object of their “investigation” could send such a person to the big house for 20 years or more.

And for the enemies of Trump 20 years wouldn’t begin to be enough time behind bars.

So, is the President guilty of anything other than his right to protect his personal and business tax returns? In a simple answer is yes!

If there was any hanky-panky regarding Trump’s tax returns Lerner’s chief hit people would have nailed the President a long time before he was elected as the 45^th president of the United States.

But what seems to be the burr under the blanket of the liberals is the continued nonsense of some collusion between Trump and the Russians. This is the reason they are bound to continue to seek Trump’s tax returns hoping to tie him with some business obligation to the Russians. This is again nonsense.

The American people elected a businessman. Someone who had common sense and proven leadership to correct the mess left behind by Obama. The people want a leader who understands how to make a buck and get the most out of spending it. They are tired of the old way to do business. They are tired of politicians who are capable of spending other people’s money with total disregard of how they get the money to pay for it. It isn’t their money that goes down the drain; it’s the peoples’ money and they need to be reminded of this honest fact!

What has proven to be so remarkable is that last week’s national demonstration of those crying for Trump’s tax returns was so artfully organized. The signs obviously were pre-printed, the huge crowds were pre-organized and yet it was advertized as “spontaneous.”

The question remains however; is the average American concerned about the release of Trump’s tax returns? Polls show that the guy on the street could care less and we are one of them!