Antics From MD - Tax Returns for candidates.

Not_an_outlaw · Jan 3, 2017

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-tax-returns/?utm_term=.099c918db73c#comments

Maryland legislators want tax returns prior to being permitted to be on the ballot.

Silent Partner · Jan 3, 2017

Yep, Good idea, they should do that. Best way for more Dems to defect.

Jim12 · Jan 3, 2017

“...We all expected anyone who is going to be in front of the public and lead our nation would be transparent,” said Maryland Sen. Paul G. Pinsky, who plans to sponsor the legislation with Del. Jimmy Tarlau, a fellow Prince George's County Democrat. “He chose not to be, and we want to make sure that doesn’t happen again in the future from any candidate.”

It is not yet clear whether the proposal will win support from the legislature’s Democratic leaders or is likely to advance in either chamber. Spokespeople for Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican who did not vote for Trump, did not immediately return a request for comment on whether he would sign such a bill if it passed..."

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OK, there are two royal a-holes who should be on the list of political hacks to hound out of office.

BeoBill · Jan 3, 2017

“...We all expected anyone who is going to be in front of the public and lead our nation would be transparent,” said Maryland Sen. Paul G. Pinsky, who plans to sponsor the legislation with Del. Jimmy Tarlau, a fellow Prince George's County Democrat. “He chose not to be, and we want to make sure that doesn’t happen again in the future from any candidate.”

Sure - let's see yours first fellas...

WatTyler · Jan 4, 2017

A number of states are considering ballot restrictions like this. It's being offered as a states' rights issue - that the Constitution establishes the qualifications for eligibility to hold the office, but that the states get to establish the rules and qualifications for inclusion on the ballot. Rules change with time. When I grew up, you had, de facto, to be white to be on the ballot. And less than a century before that, by law, you had to be a freeborn landholder. And male, of course. And these were states' rights issues, just like the proposal in the MD GA. Same-same. Just one's "good" and one's "bad." Beware "good" ideas. They change with time.

t84a · Jan 4, 2017

I think you should have to file/pay taxes to vote. Need to have some skin in the game.

nmyers · Jan 4, 2017

FIRST, I want to see a certified (impressed seal) copy of Obama's birth certificate.

THEN, I'm willing to talk about other requirements.

Jim12 · Jan 4, 2017

BeoBill said:
Sure - let's see yours first fellas...

Those two state senators are transparent. Transparent political hacks.

Not_an_outlaw · Jan 4, 2017

t84a said:
I think you should have to file/pay taxes to vote. Need to have some skin in the game.

Should add as an amendment. It will be doomed then.

daggo66 · Jan 4, 2017

What's the point?

Kman · Jan 4, 2017

t84a said:
I think you should have to file/pay taxes to vote. Need to have some skin in the game.

I am a fellow hater and I agree.

Exception for elderly who have been tax abused already.

t84a · Jan 4, 2017

More for the crybaby students.

traveller · Jan 4, 2017

Kman said:
I am a fellow hater and I agree.

Exception for elderly who have been tax abused already.

You get lifetime eligibility after you have 120 quarters payroll tax payments (proportionally less if you came as a legal immigrant).

gungate · Jan 4, 2017

Doesn't MD also require Electoral College Electors to vote for the candidate that gets the national popular vote?

Bob A · Jan 4, 2017

I'd like to see annual net worth statements on the GA. So many pols enter politics with a little money, and retire very wealthy. "Public service" ought not to equate with "serving myself from the public trough."

hodgepodge · Jan 6, 2017

Before we demand this from presidential candidates, let's try it out with state legislators. Many seem to be doing well with their part time job and whatever they're doing for the other nine months.

Schipperke · Jan 6, 2017

t84a said:
I think you should have to file/pay taxes to vote. Need to have some skin in the game.

Use to be that way.

traveller · Jan 6, 2017

hodgepodge said:
Before we demand this from presidential candidates, let's try it out with state legislators. Many seem to be doing well with their part time job and whatever they're doing for the other nine months.

Would they have to declare bribes as well ?

BeoBill · Jan 7, 2017

traveller said:
Would they have to declare bribes as well ?

Only if they're on a 1099.

Don H · Jan 7, 2017

gungate said:
Doesn't MD also require Electoral College Electors to vote for the candidate that gets the national popular vote?

No, not yet. Maryland was the first state to drop out of the Electoral College but in only goes into effect when a total of states that also sign on have votes equal 270 or more.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/04/10/schneider.electoral/index.html?_s=PM

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