DONALD TRUMP MAY NOT BE ON THE 2020 ELECTION BALLOT IN SOME STATES

[Stonepounder]

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DONALD TRUMP MAY NOT BE ON THE 2020 ELECTION BALLOT IN SOME STATES UNLESS HE RELEASES HIS TAX RETURNS

Donald Trump made headlines throughout the 2016 campaign for his refusal to release his tax returns to the public. Now, if he doesn't comply to disclose that information in the lead-up to the 2020 election, he could find his name stripped from the ballot in some states.

The Rhode Island Senate on Tuesday passed a bill that would require all presidential candidates to make their tax returns from the past five years available for voters to see, or risk being left out at the polls. Lawmakers approved of the bill overwhelmingly, 34 to 3. The legislation will now move on to the statehouse for a vote.

The Democrats who run Rhode Island's state Senate told The Providence Journal that “tax returns provide essential information about candidates’ conflicts of interest, and other vital information to a voter weighing a decision."

Rhode Island is not the only state passing this kind of legislation. In early May, Maryland lawmakers passed a similar bill that would force presidential candidates to publicize their tax returns in order to appear on the state ballot.

A little more at link (Newsweek). I'm waiting for more states - like California and New York to pass laws like this.

[Cha]

1. I've read that the people of California passed that

law but Gov Brown Vetoed it. Called it a "slippery slope" and gave a ridiculous example in my view.

Mahalo for the news about RI, Stonepounder

[R B Garr]

2. Fantastic! Seriously, if you have to hide your taxes, what

else are you up to. Basic transparency requirements are basic. No excuses.

[mucifer]

3. I'm sure congress and/or the supreme court will find a way to get him on the ballot.

[pnwmom]

4. Not sure this is Constitutional -- but worth a try, I guess. nt

[herding cats]

5. I'm hoping he's not on the ballot for other reasons, but I'll take what we get for now.

Disclosing your taxes should be a basic requirement for anyone running for POTUS. If nothing else Trump should have taught us that much.

[Ohiya]

6. Are you allowed to be on the ballot...

if you're in prison?

[byronius]

9. Ding ding ding ding.

[OnDoutside]

7. Surely it only matters if this happens in states he won in 2016, like Michigan ? He's NOT going to

win states like New York or California, so he doesn't have to worry about not running there.

[struggle4progress]

8. Shoe leather and phone calls and handshakes and doorbells win

Make real contact with real people

Don't count on anything else

[byronius]

10. You always say solid, sensible things.

Thanks for that.

[catbyte]

11. States that would pass a law like that wouldn't be in Traitor Tot's win column anyway.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. But if you can get even a small % of voters

in one or several red states thinking that 'he can't win because he's not on every state ballot', it might tip just one red or purple state by a hair and that is all you need in a close election

[Lock him up.]

13. No EC votes for him if he's not on States ballots.

But in NYS prison.