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Ending Trump's Tax Evasions
Taryn Luna and Alexei Koseff at the Sacramento Bee:
California lawmakers on Friday sent
Gov. Jerry Brown a bill setting a new requirement for people wanting to
run for president in California: Hand over five years of tax returns.
Inspired by President Donald Trump’s
refusal to provide tax returns before the 2016 election, Democratic
Sens. Mike McGuire of Healdsburg and Scott Wiener of San Francisco
drafted Senate Bill 149, which declares that tax returns provide “voters
with essential information regarding the candidate’s potential
conflicts of interest, business dealings, financial status, and
charitable donations.
It prohibits the secretary of state
from putting a candidate’s name on the ballot in California if he or she
has not complied with the tax return requirement. The Legislature’s own lawyers have
said the bill is legally questionable, issuing an opinion suggesting it
would likely violate the qualifications clause of the U.S. Constitution.
According the Assembly analysis of the bill, nearly half the states are
considering similar legislation....
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