Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

That's the headline. makes quite an impression, doesn't it? Such headlines have a tendency to do that. Imagine you're in a hurry, you just walk by the newsstand and see that headline. What would you think? Precisely. Just like the rest of us, you would be somewhat confused as to how such a law could firstly be passed and secondly pass the 'Constitutional muster'. Well, there's more to it, because of course there is.

The scoop is that the Illinois Senate passed a bill to make this just such a requirement in the State. The logic behind the move? According to State Senator Tony Munoz, “If you’ve got nothing to hide, you shouldn’t worry about anything. That’s how I see it.” That's the same reasoning you get when a cop asks, quite nonchalantly, if he can search your car. "You got nothing to 'hide', right?" "No, of course not, but I do have this pesky constitutional right to privacy, which means I can say no, and there's nothing you can do about it".

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-must-release-tax-returns-110100111.html

It just drives them absolutely insane that he values his constitutional rights above their 'curiosity'.

Remember the name Tony Munoz. I guarantee you'll hear more about him in the not-so-distant future.

Radiance3

===============
All those seeking elected seats in Congress must present their IRS tax returns. If they don't they must be barred seats from Congress and the Senate.

Larry the Legend Loc: Not hiding in Milton

As much fun as I'd have perusing the tax records of our elected Representatives in Washington (looking at you, Nancy), it will never happen. Congress cannot pass such a law, because it would immediately be ruled unconstitutional in the courts. A Constitutional amendment is unlikely given the amount of co-operation it requires from politicians at the State level, many of whom aspire to higher office in the Federal government.

These corrupt 'swamp dwellers' in Washington hate our President with such passion because they know he has the 'dirt' on them and is exposing them as the hypocrites they are, one 'issue' at a time, and by their own actions. He refuses to reveal his personal financial information for the world to see, giving a clearly specious excuse for not doing so, and omitting the fact that he has every right to refuse. 'They' think they can ramp up the 'pressure' by continually harping on this non-issue. Three years later and they finally find some schmuck in a legislature in Illinois, of all places, who takes up their 'cause'.

Know this, even the radical Illinois legislature is not moon-batty enough to pass this obviously unconstitutional piece of overreach. If they do, they will be laughed out of the first court of law they find themselves defending it in.

As for forcing all candidates into the same situation, that does not make it any more justified. Candidates for public office have the same rights and obligations as the rest of us, including the right to be 'secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects'. Candidacy for public office does not make a person any less 'American' in the eyes of the law.

President Trump makes fools of them at every turn. They know it, it enrages them, and there is little they can do about it because they keep doing it to themselves. They make some 'off the wall' demand. He says 'no'. They throw a hissy fit, he exposes their hypocrisy and the world laughs at them.

This is what we call 'draining the swamp', one snake at a time.