TOTALLY UNEXPECTED! Treasury Department misses Richard Neal's deadline for Trump taxes. UNEXPECTED!

[Miles Archer]

Hardball
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JUST IN: The Treasury Department says it will miss today's deadline from House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal to hand over six years of president Trump's personal and business tax returns. #Hardball

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[malaise]

1. That regulation with SHALL makes no reference to Treasury

Lock them the fuck up!

[uponit7771]

2. +1, They shouldn't even have jurisdiction ... I'm thinking lock the person who the request is ...

... written to up.

Then go up line, we're technically getting close to a dictator ship with these guys saying go to hell on every request and Moscow Mitch not holding Red Don to account.

[malaise]

3. +1,000

Time to make them know the House is serious right fucking now.

[FBaggins]

11. Really? Have you read it?

What’s the word right before that “shall”??

[malaise]

12. You tell me - I'm going with this and other comments by experts

https://www.vox.com/2019/4/9/18296806/trump-tax-returns-congress-legal-experts

[FBaggins]

13. No you aren't

That source makes clear that the Treasury Secretary is the correct respondent. You’re saying it had nothing to do with Treasury.

[malaise]

14. That source has several experts who disagree n/t

[FBaggins]

15. You have a particularly active imagination today

Try citing one that says anything like “That regulation with SHALL makes no reference to Treasury”

The regulation specifically refers to the Treasury Secretary.

[malaise]

16. Please post the complete regulation

Thank you

[FBaggins]

18. Just look at the words right before what you cited

It says “the Secretary shall”

Upon written request from the chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Secretary shall furnish such committee with any return or return information specified in such request...

If anything... they could spin that the request didn’t go to the right person.

[malaise]

19. So why are so many people

arguing that this is the IRS Commissioner's jurisdiction and that Treasury should stay out

[FBaggins]

20. Reading comprehension problems on their part?

Or they just didn’t want Mnuchin involved.

Maybe they have reason to think IRS would be more likely to give them what they want... but that’s a tough sell when their case depends on a plain reading of the text.

[malaise]

21. That would include me

although I don't care who is involved as long as Neal gets the tax returns

[FBaggins]

22. I suspect that it's going to end up with SCOTUS

And I have little faith how that will turn out. It certainly won't happen quickly.

Ask yourself this - Why do you think Neal wants them in the first place?

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. I'm shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!

[world wide wally]

5. Just fucking arrest them!

Enough child's play already.

[Moostache]

10. amen...put them in cages next to the overpass prisons they helped build {n/t}

[SWBTATTReg]

6. Time to start holding contempt of Congress hearings. Nail them. NT

[shanti]

7. Who would do that?

[SWBTATTReg]

8. House Ways and Means Committee...nt

[doc03]

9. I don't think they will ever release Trump's taxes as long as he is

in office. Once he is out of office nobody will push it.

[dalton99a]

17. Perhaps, for starters, the House should cut off funding for the asshole's vacations

and travel expenses for his spawn