Trumps Unreleased Taxes Threaten Yet Another Campaign Promise

[TomCADem]

Why would Trump release his tax returns when the whole point of his tax reform efforts is to personally benefit from it?

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump%E2%80%99s-unreleased-taxes-threaten-yet-another-campaign-promise/ar-BBzXpRY?li=BBnb7Kz

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s promise to enact a sweeping overhaul of the tax code is in serious jeopardy nearly 100 days into his tenure, and his refusal to release his own tax returns is emerging as a central hurdle to another faltering campaign promise.

As procrastinators rushed to file their tax returns by Tuesday, the White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, emphasized again on Monday that Mr. Trump had no intention of making his public. Democrats have seized on that decision, uniting around a pledge not to cooperate on any rewriting of the tax code unless they know specifically how that revision would benefit the billionaire president and his family.

And a growing roster of more than a dozen Republican lawmakers now say Mr. Trump should release them.

“If he doesn’t release his returns, it is going to make it much more difficult to get tax reform done,” said Senator Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader, pointing out that the president has significant conflicts of interest on issues such as taxation of the real estate industry and elimination of the estate tax. “It’s in his own self-interest.”

[elleng]

1. Tax 'reform' is NEVER gonna get done,

and Schumer sounds silly for suggesting otherwise imo.

[TomCADem]

2. To the contrary, tax "reform" is almost always done.

Almost every President has some sort of overhaul of the tax code. It is pretty much par for the course. Likewise, regardless of whether taxes go up or down, the effort is always called tax reform. Of course, reform in the eyes of Republicans is a give away in the eyes of Democrats.