Protesters in Texas demand release of Trump tax returns

April 16 01:48 2017

Almost 10,000 people in Chicago indicated on Facebook they would attend demonstrations, CBS Chicago reports.

On Tax Day, demonstrators across the country and overseas have set their own filing deadline for President Trump: Provide your tax returns now.

The president, who is at his resort for the seventh weekend since becoming president, reportedly took a different route from Trump International Golf Club to Mar-a-Lago to avoid the protesters.

Two competing rallies in Berkeley, California, have prompted fears of possible violent confrontations, CBS San Francisco reports.

Protestors take part in the “Tax March” calling on US President Donald Trump to release his tax records on April 15, 2017 in NY. She says she pushed the effort because she cares “about transparency and conflict of interest”.

In New York, thousands brandished signs, with some that read “You got the birth certificate, show us your taxes” and “No Hidden Figures!”

The founder of the nonpartisan, Invisible Boise Chapter One group that’s main goal is to let elected officials know how they feel about President Trump’s policies and agenda said he made a promise to the American people.

The impersonator was one of a number of speakers outside the Capitol on Saturday as part of the Tax March, which was aimed at pressuring Trump to release his tax returns. The Oregon Democrat and says the people have “a basic right to know whether the president pays his fair share”. “Because we do deserve to see those tax returns”.

Demonstrators said Saturday that President Donald Trump’s refusal to release his income tax returns – breaking a presidential tradition – caused them to worry.

Presidents are technically not obliged to release their tax returns; however, over the last four decades, all the directors and major party presidential nominees have been voluntarily transparent about them, except Gerard Ford.

Jennifer Taub, a professor at the Vermont Law School, had the idea for the march in January. In September, he told ABC News, “I don’t think anybody cares, except some members of the press”. She has testified before Congress and wrote a book about the 2008 financial crisis.

“I want my country back, and I apologize to the young for having been asleep politically for so long”, Paine said. “His administration’s excuse? ‘People don’t care.’ We do care”.

Through the march, the Democratic Party and progressives are attempting to reroute the grassroots energy that helped derail Trump’s bid to overhaul the Affordable Care Act toward their next goal: forcing a release of his tax returns and drawing the battle lines for the upcoming debate over US tax reform.

Trapp said Trump’s unwillingness to disclose his taxes calls into question his credibility and trustworthiness to the American people.

“We need to know what his business ties are with other countries”.

Some of the hundreds of marchers in Austin held signs with captions including: “What Are Your Hiding Mr. President?” and “We The People Want Wo See Trump’s Taxes”.

Many lawmakers, including some Republicans, have also called on him to make them public.

Capitol Hill in Washington.
Demonstators gather Saturday on Capitol Hill in Washington

Protesters in Texas demand release of Trump tax returns
 
 
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