{"id":36705,"date":"2019-04-24T20:27:26","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36705"},"modified":"2019-04-24T20:27:26","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T20:27:26","slug":"trump-does-a-one-eighty-on-tax-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36705","title":{"rendered":"Trump does a One-Eighty on tax returns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23IRS%20%23taxreturns%20%23Trumptaxes&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/income-tax-notebook-1800-28-mar-2017.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36617\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/income-tax-notebook-1800-28-mar-2017-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/income-tax-notebook-1800-28-mar-2017-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/income-tax-notebook-1800-28-mar-2017-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/income-tax-notebook-1800-28-mar-2017-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/income-tax-notebook-1800-28-mar-2017.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess I was asleep when this occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump used to proclaim that he would release his tax returns for public review as soon as the Internal Revenue Service finished its &#8220;routine audit.&#8221; He said that, yes?<\/p>\n<p>Now he says something quite different. He now is declaring that he won&#8217;t release his tax returns under any circumstance.<\/p>\n<p>Huh? What happened? When did the president change his tune?<\/p>\n<p>He has declared all along he had nothing to hide. No business dealings with Russia. No tax dodge. Nothing improper, let alone illegal.<\/p>\n<p>So when is he going to let the public see the returns of the man who helps shape national tax policy, who is partly responsible for the requiring the rest of us to pay our fair share of taxes? It&#8217;s only fair, I believe, to demand that we see whether the Big Man pays <em>his<\/em> fair share, too.<\/p>\n<p>Is that unreasonable? I don&#8217;t believe it is.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=MAGA%20%23IRS%20%23taxreturns%20%23Trumptaxes&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess I was asleep when this occurred. Donald J. Trump used to proclaim that he would release his tax returns for public review as soon as the Internal Revenue Service finished its &#8220;routine audit.&#8221; He said that, yes? Now he says something quite different. He now is declaring that he won&#8217;t release his tax &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=36705\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump does a One-Eighty on tax returns<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1424,2343,6110],"class_list":["post-36705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-irs","tag-tax-returns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36706,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36705\/revisions\/36706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}