Trump Faces Pressure From N.Y. Lawmakers Over Tax Returns

Let the sunshine in!

Good move New York, and do not back down from your appointed mission.

I have to wait until Monday? I want this bill passed and signed by the Governor. I want to see all the information packed in trucks and on their way to Washington and, I want armed guards to prevent the mob boss from ordering a hit on the trucks.

Remember when the Moreland Commission got oh so close to Cuomo's misdeeds in public office? What did he do? He unilaterally disbanded it and told his critics to go pound sand. So much for high minded ethics of the Democrat controlled state government in Albany.

What we need is a disgruntled IRS employee to leak the tax returns to the "lying press". The net's tightening in spite of his stubbornness. Trump is livid that his transparency is opaque, that his reputation is being blackened by public sentiment no matter how many Nuremberg rallies he holds.

So now New York Taxpayers have to fund politician's (who are just as vile) revenge. Got it.

Trump boasted he was 'smart' in avoiding taxes. Let's see how 'smart' he was in circumventing sanctions against Russia, fraudulently inflating his net worth to obtain loans and, more significantly, laundering Russian money through Deutsche Bank and offshore accounts. Madoff was also 'smart', till he wasn't.

Financial corruption runs deep in New York, in politics and business , so the comment by Senator Lanza rings true. The Republican's embrace corruption.

The big, brave senate, ready to force the release Trump's tax returns, a political stunt as far as the eye can see. The cowards in Albany had a chance to do some real good by changing campaign finance laws, and guess what? They caved to their union overlords who control the reelection purse-stings - the source of the democrats funding. The unions were OK with limited corporate financial power, but not their own. Weak, misguided, and doomed to failure, just another day in Albany.

Way to go!

Now da dems are going after Trump because they say he was a lousy businessman.. I wouldn’t have thought business acumen had anything to do with being president. After all, the Clintons, for example, left the Whitehouse dead broke and had to borrow money to buy their home in New York. BTW does anybody remember who lent it to them?

The only thing missing at this point are his transcripts from high school and college. This so-called "stable genius" is no doubt an idiot. This is the same guy who criticized Obama and McCain for their academic records but then ordered his high school and colleges never to release his records. Maybe his father Fred paid for him to get into Penn.

Trump's sleazy behavior as an adult was foreshadowed by his youthful antics in Flushing, Queens, more than 50 years ago. It was the period of our disastrous war with North Vietnam. Donald was afraid to go there, so he and his father found a way to pretend that he had an injury to one of his feet. This then keep him out of the war. To add insult to injury, Donald bragged (on tape) that he was in more danger in Queens than were our soldiers in Vietnam because of the threat of venereal disease. As Yogi Berra used to say: "You could look it up." He was a phony then, and he's still a phony now. Unfortunately he's much more dangerous and causing much more trouble now then he did at that time, but he doesn't care.

Doesn't the NYS constitution prevent the establishment of bills of attainder? If so, won't the President's attorneys object to the creation of such state legislation on those grounds? I seriously doubt that the public will ever see his recent state or federal tax returns. Hopefully the President will be a distant memory by that time unless the Democrats screw things up, which seems more likely with each passing day.

"Today it's the president, tomorrow it's the rest of us".......quote from Republican tax cheater perhaps??

This will result in a lawsuit in a court which will order a stay as to the implementation of this spiteful legislation until the case is finally decided. Given the pace of the court system, with a string of lengthy adjournment plus appeals to the Appellate Divion, the Court of Appeals and then the Supreme court, this will probably not be decided until well after the 2020 election.

Although I cannot wait to see what President Trump's New York tax returns show as a legislator I would be concerned the easy access to Income Tax information might discourage the wealthiest from residing or doing business in New York. Legislation passed for one affects all.