Tag: Mike McGuire

President Trump is right about one thing: He shouldn’t have to publicly release his tax returns. In Sacramento, a Democratic bill is advancing that would require presidential candidates to publicly release their tax returns for the last five years. Candidates who refused to release their taxes wouldn’t be allowed on the California ballot. McGuire also argues that every major presidential candidate since Jimmy Carter in 1976 — except for Trump in 2016 — has publicly released tax returns voluntarily. Today we require tax returns, but what would be next? I asked McGuire. The law also allows, under certain circumstances, for a committee to insert the returns into the public record. So he’s going to win this victory.” What California’s huge Democratic congressional delegation should be doing is fighting to resurrect all our state and local tax deductions on federal returns. Trump is the best example. And it certainly won’t matter whether Trump is allowed on the California ballot.