Tax Day Protests to Demand Trump's Returns

[TomCADem]

Source: NBC News

Large protests are expected Saturday across the country pegged to Tax Day to pressure President Donald Trump to release his tax returns.

This year's Tax Day Marches on Saturday, planned in dozens of cities across the county, are expected to be the biggest political mass mobilization since January's Women's March, which some believe was the largest mass political mobilization ever recorded.

Organizers hope to call attention to the fact that Trump is the first president since Richard Nixon to refuse to release his tax returns, and to prepare for a fight on tax policy.

"We need to see Trump's tax returns as a matter of transparency. If we're going into a tax reform debate, we need know if what Trump wants to do is going to benefit himself, since he tends to do things that help him and not necessarily others," said Wes Shockley, one of the organizers of the New York City march.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/tax-day-protests-to-demand-trumps-returns/ar-BBzPxKc

[dalton99a]

1. Kick.

[KPN]

2. Hope all DU'ers who can will consider participating in this.

It's a great opportunity to show that we are, in fact, the MAJORITY ... and that 45 is illegitimate.

[underthematrix]

3. Just tweeted and shared on FB

[turbinetree]

4. And just think, if and when he files his "2016 returns" they automatically get audited

under the IRS rule Manual Section 4.2.1.11, and since they are expedited whats his excuse going to be this time-----------------------this sexual predator has none, zilch, nada, zero.

So what is the press secretary easter bunny going to say now, if and when that question is thrown into his duplicitous face, again?

Because after all, Nixon had over $567,000 dollars in donations for 1969, for donating his presidential papers back to the government, and in 1971 he paid less than $900 dollars on more than $262,000 dollars, and then when he found himself in hot water, Nixon it was determined by the Joint Committee on Taxation that he owed $476,451 dollars on taxes and interest----------------------fraud is still fraud.

And now the IRS needs to be asked if they are going to enforce this rule or law against there current "boss"?

[FakeNoose]

5. It would be nice if Florida Democrats

... all showed up in Palm Beach and Mar-A-Lago on Saturday.

Perfect time to wish the (Fake)POTUS a Happy Easter and demand that he release his tax returns.

Just get in his face - maybe he won't spend so much time hiding in Florida any more.

[JudyM]

9. Great idea!!

[C Moon]

6. Once he's booted out of office, I won't want his return.

[dhill926]

7. love the fact they're keeping this in the public eye...

[NastyRiffraff]

8. I'm marching in DC tomorrow!

The American people DO care about Dump's tax returns.

[riversedge]

13. Good for you. Have fun and make friends.

[nitpicker]

15. Wish I could march...

But will be doing pro bono tax returns for lower-income taxpayers.

[murielm99]

10. I will be in a local march tomorrow. n/t

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Six Questions About The Tax March And Eight About The Trump Chickens

Six Questions About The Tax March And Eight About The Trump Chickens

by Rachel Sadon in News on Apr 13, 2017 3:00 pm



[font size=1]The Trump chicken was hanging out in Dupont Circle this afternoon. (Photo by Erik Stegman)[/font]

Like most of the massive rallies organized in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory, Saturday's Tax March is the result of spontaneous social media organizing. Unlike the others, this one has a giant, inflatable chicken as a mascot.

Law professor Jennifer Taub tweeted a call in January for a march demanding that Trump #showusyourtaxes. Her missive and a subsequent tweet by comedian Frank Lesser wound up going viral. “I traffic in ideas that people usually ignore,” Taub told the Guardian. “I invest years in research, writing, and crafting a book, meticulously searching and referencing. I’ve testified before Congress. And nothing happens.” Not so this time around.

Seeing support for the idea coalesce, an executive committee got to planning. There are now 180 events, largely around the country with a few abroad, slated to happen on Saturday.

Still, it easily could have gotten lost in the slew of marches on D.C. planned this spring. There's one for at least the next four weeks in a row, and they have rather more urgent seeming messages: climate change! science! immigrants! But Tax Marchers have some attention-getting help in the form of a gilded, blow-up chicken. ... The symbolism of cartoonish, inflated fowl is just too rich, the chicken puns too numerous, the gold hair too perfect. It's like catnip for Washingtonians, who have been snapping shots of the mascot hanging out around town.

[riversedge]

14. Love that chicken.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. There's a quick and easy way to see Trump's tax returns

There's a quick and easy way to see Trump's tax returns

By Daniel Hemel

April 11

Daniel Hemel is an assistant professor at the University of Chicago Law School.

State lawmakers across the country are pursuing creative methods to force President Trump to release his federal income tax returns before he can run for reelection in 2020. Unfortunately for citizens interested in greater presidential transparency, those efforts are likely to fail. ... There is, however, a much easier way for state lawmakers to force the disclosure of Trump’s tax information: publishing the state tax returns already in their possession, which would reveal much of the same information appearing in his federal documents.
....

The ballot-access approach faces three formidable obstacles: First, Democrats control both the governor slot and legislatures in only half a dozen states. Republicans are likely to block the bills from becoming law anywhere else. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, is widely expected to veto his state’s ballot-access bill.
....

New York’s Department of Taxation and Finance keeps copies of Trump’s state returns from as far back as 1990. Current New York law prohibits state tax officials from disclosing an individual’s returns, but the New York legislature could amend that law to require the state tax authority to post the president’s returns from the past quarter-century on its website. For the sake of evenhandedness, the legislature might apply the same rule to its other elected officials. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is unlikely to object: He releases his returns every year, as do the state’s two senators, fellow Democrats Charles E. Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand.

Federal law does not stand in New York’s way. The Internal Revenue Code prohibits state officials from disclosing a taxpayer’s federal return, but it does not stop New York from disclosing information that Trump reports on his state forms.

[lisa444]

16. eh

they can protests but nothing change

[TomCADem]

17. Report: Hundreds arrested at anti-corruption protests in Russia

I am sure Putin would agree.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/26/world/russia-corruption-protests/

Moscow (CNN)Hundreds of people, including a prominent opposition figure, were arrested in Moscow Sunday for participating in unauthorized protests, according to state media and a human rights group.

The demonstrators were attending a large-scale anti-corruption demonstration in Moscow.

State-run news outlet Tass reported that 8,000 people attended the protest in Moscow alone. Similar protests were planned in 100 cities across Russia, according to organizers.

Russian human rights group OVD-Info tweeted that more than 700 had been detained in Moscow -- while state-run news agency Ria Novosti said 500 had been held.