Huckabee: GOP House majority must get off their keisters & do something big with new-found power in 2023, either through investigation or legislation

[basquebromance]

i will give detailed policy proposals of what the GOP can do on this thread...stay tuned

 

[Mac1958]

The nutters from both ends of the spectrum take any victory, ANY victory, as a "mandate" to shove their entire agendas straight down our throats.

That pisses us off, and we vote them out.

If these people are so smart, why don't they see this?

 

[basquebromance]

If we take immigration and border security, they're interconnected. Even Democratic primary voters and Republican primary voters agree on many of these elements. I would always talk about a smart wall and how we should have operational control of our border. We need to know everything that's coming back and forth across the border. From when I first started talking about this, a lot of new technologies have been deployed — the official term now is Integrative Fixed Tower system.

 

[basquebromance]

Make it easier to vote. We should be able to have online registration to vote. We should be able to register and vote on the same day. If one county wants to have 24-hour voting and they have the resources to do that, great. But we should also be able to able confirm the identity of the person. All of these things can be true at the same time.

 

[basquebromance]

Trump was responsible for losing the White House, losing the House, and losing the Senate. Everybody thought that an endorsement from him was a surefire thing to getting elected. It's not. When you look at Republican primary voters when they get asked about whether his opinion on down-ballot candidates matter — the answer is basically no. He still has a loyal base. That's not going to change. But it's an overestimation of his power capabilities.

 

[Penelope]

For the U.S. president and vice president, an audit is guaranteed every year.


The practice of doing a "mandatory examination" of the presidential and vice presidential tax returns has been in the Internal Revenue Manual since the Watergate era, according to the IRS.

Both President Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew became embroiled in personal tax controversies around the same time that the Watergate scandal was unfolding. Agnew ended up resigning after admitting to tax evasion

The president always gets audited (and the veep too)

Since the 1970s, the IRS has automatically audited the tax returns of both the president and vice president.

money.cnn.com

Its really too bad tramp didn't and said he's under audit, he hasn't been audited once since he was pres. We have no right to see Nancy Pelosi tax return.

 

[Penelope]

2. Are presidents required to release their tax returns?​

Presidents aren’t required by law to release their tax returns. Nevertheless, between 1974 and 2012, every president but Gerald Ford has made a voluntary release of the tax returns they filed while in office. Ford released no complete returns, but released 10 years of summary data including gross income, taxable income, major deductions, and taxes paid.

This tradition of voluntary tax return disclosure ended in 2017, when President Trump declined to release any personal tax information. Trump offered various reasons for keeping his returns private, frequently insisting that he wouldn’t make a release while his returns were being audited by the IRS.

3. Are all presidents' tax returns audited by the IRS?​

Since 1977 the Internal Revenue Manual has required that every tax return filed by a sitting president or vice president be subject to an audit. According to IRS officials at the time, the new policy was established “in the interest of sound administration” and in light of “everything that has happened in the past.”

Presidential Tax Returns | Presidential Candidates Taxes - Tax Notes

Tax History Project has compiled an archive of presidential tax returns, including those of recent candidates. Stay informed on all tax topics with Tax Notes!

www.taxnotes.com

 

[sparky]

If the bottom line is clarity and transparency in government , i agree it's an 'issue'.....~S~