Back in February of 2019, then-President Donald Trump’s former attorney, Michael Cohen, testified before the House Oversight Committee that his former employer had once shown him a big refund from the IRS and told him “he could not believe how stupid the government was for giving someone like him that much money back.”
It turns out that the man who once claimed in a presidential debate that not paying any taxes made him “smart” was right about that. The IRS is stupid, or at least lazy and incompetent. It let Donald Trump off the hook for years.
On Tuesday the House Ways and Means Committee finally broke its silence and announced that after years of legal battles and delays it would release Trump’s tax returns to the public, as they are authorized to do by the same law Republicans invoked when they investigated the IRS back in 2014. That probe, which was supposed to show that the IRS had targeted conservative organizations, actually […]
The question is: will there be an uproar regarding the ability of the wealthy to avoid paying what they should, or will we return to business as usual?