{"id":137788,"date":"2019-02-09T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/gop-argues-revealing-trumps-taxes-might-lead-to-more-tax-transparency.html"},"modified":"2019-02-09T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T20:12:45","slug":"gop-argues-revealing-trumps-taxes-might-lead-to-more-tax-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/gop-argues-revealing-trumps-taxes-might-lead-to-more-tax-transparency.html","title":{"rendered":"GOP argues revealing Trump&#039;s taxes might lead to MORE tax transparency!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egads!<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the most interesting item the article is that public tax return info has plenty of precedent in US history, and tax returns being sacrosanct is a relatively modern phenomenon in the US. <\/p>\n<p>Gosh, wonder what group made hiding sources (and amount) of income the norm?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/02\/gop-warns-releasing-trumps-taxes-could-lead-to-transparency.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/dNeexJCufFH4BV72d6zxvoYg3zWo3jQ2ocAgDlnM6VjJe5TvvIr1uhP693w_KMjImoJa9ah7BEGhTVWT1Dysors33p_naLBYL8LCk19WlQqG9oRD_O2ZGJcM7jsFHFXi5al3f_IBJ3T4ia1Ke56v28XePvY=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/nymag.com\/intelligencer\/2019\/02\/gop-warns-releasing-trumps-taxes-could-lead-to-transparency.html'>GOP Warns Releasing Trump&rsquo;s Taxes Could Lead to Transparency<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/HFcj8TBCbzr'>Original Post<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Egads! Actually, the most interesting item the article is that public tax return info has plenty of precedent in US history, and tax returns being sacrosanct is a relatively modern phenomenon in the US. Gosh, wonder what group made hiding sources (and amount) of income the norm? GOP Warns Releasing Trump&rsquo;s Taxes Could Lead to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/09\/gop-argues-revealing-trumps-taxes-might-lead-to-more-tax-transparency.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;GOP argues revealing Trump&#039;s taxes might lead to MORE tax transparency!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131553,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/09\/15\/trumps-taxes-are-far-too-confusing-for-most-of-us-mere-mortals.html","url_meta":{"origin":137788,"position":0},"title":"Trump&#039;s taxes are far too confusing for most of us mere mortals","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Sep-16 10:36pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump has tried to claim that he can't release his tax records because he is being audited by the IRS. 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