"Has congress ever ordered the tax returns of any other president?"

[Maraya1969]

These Rethugs are just fucking stooopid! Even when one of the witnesses explained that for many years every president has voluntarily released his tax returns they continue with the same question!

Then the last dope just questioned each one AGAIN if there is a law that requires the president to release his taxes.

Do they not know they make no sense? Do they keep repeating these same questions knowing all the time that they are idiotic but other Rethugs will like them? Are they just talking to make it seem like they have something to say?

I want to reach through the TV and smack them!

Oh and Mr. Panetta just pointed to a law that says congress can make the president turn over his taxes!!!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. They haven't had to; for decades all others have voluntarily produced them.

[Maraya1969]

4. I know. And even after that obvious fact was pointed out these Rethugs kept repeating

their talking points that implied otherwise.

[MiniMe]

2. They never needed to. Prior Presidents turned them over voluntarily

And publicly.

[jberryhill]

3. Congress was given that power for a specific reason

...and that reason was to be able to sniff out corruption.

The power of the House Ways and Means Committee to request the taxes of ANYONE arose from the Teapot Dome scandal.

[WeekiWater]

6. Thank you.

I was unfamiliar with this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

[onecaliberal]

5. Everyone else volunteered theirs. We all know that: