Booray said:
Anybody who thinks Donald Trump isn't hiding all sorts of stuff by refusing to release his taxes isn't going to change their mind if the returns are released.
And a candidate for POTUS should be able to fact check his opponent.
I am all for Joe debating so he can put the only reason to vote against him-"the dementia Joe"
story line-to rest. If he does, he will bury Trump in the election.
The fact that Biden has at least the onset of dementia is a huge reason in and of itself to not vote for him - at least for voters that have half of a brain or more (which I realize does sadly exclude a lot of voters out there). There are a number of other reasons as well, but that one alone
should be enough. And trust me, if dementia Joe does debate Trump he most certainly
won't put that story line to rest.
As far as the tax return crap goes, what do people think Trump is "hiding" that hasn't been discovered by the IRS agents who are constantly and continually auditing his returns (and the IRS isn't deploying rookie trainees to audit massive and complicated tax returns such as the ones Trump files)? If he's cheating or committing tax fraud, does anybody seriously think some CNN contributor or some Woodward/Bernstein type is going to be the first one to find it?? Besides the FACT that it is a good idea to not release tax returns under audit (i.e. who knows how the returns are going to be ultimately altered or changed when settlement/resolution hasn't occurred per an audit or audits), Trump knows the only reason enemies want to see his tax returns is to nitpick them and take advantage of the generally prevailing ignorance out there on how tax law works especially within the context of complicated/involved returns, and how successful business people LEGALLY take advantage of deductions, adjustments, and credits, etc. They want to use it to attack him for things like paying a far lower percentage of income taxes than your basic average factory worker, etc. - which I for one sure hope he is, because otherwise, he's a moron. Anyway, tax returns in general don't tell you that much about a person's true financial condition - they just tell you what their income was in a given year (as the government defines income) and what they did to take advantage of ways to reduce that income to arrive at their "taxable income" and pay the lowest amount they can. Period.