'Toontime: Exceeding Expectations

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Wackydoodle sez: Comin' from him, its a compliment!

This week the Very Crazy White House told Congress to 'pound sand' because they are not going to allow the Treasury to turn over Don Veto's tax lies in response to House subpoenas. Don Veto is no relation to Don Vito Casio Ferro of Castellammare de Golfo, Sicily. Casio Ferro was the real thing, not a cheap imitation¹. Don Veto's mental fitness for office is again in the press. Toyota is a national security threat? Ask the nearly half a million 'Mericans that work in Toyota's US based operations.

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BC Idonwanna sez: Him big tax geek!

Regarding Secretary Mnuchin's refusal to turn over six years of Don Veto's tax returns, he does so in clear and absolute violation of a federal tax code  provision [Section 6103(f)(1)] that makes submission mandatory. No "legislative purpose" is needed to justify compliance. If one was needed, the House Ways & Means Committee has one: deciding whether to make the previously voluntary disclosure of a candidate's tax returns required under law. Don Veto ignored decades of precedent beginning with Richard Nixon, which made such disclosure customary. Now that the "King of Debt" has flaunted that precedent, it is time to make presidential tax disclosure a law.  The solution to this standoff: Impeachment now!²

1Don Veto shared a prominent NY lawyer, Roy Cohn, with major mobsters including 'Fat Tony' Salerno, one-time head of the powerful Genovese crime family and John Gotti, who became head of the Gambino family.  A Genovese capo, Joseph 'Joe Glitz' Galizia  assistied Russian mobsters based in Brooklyn setting up a gasoline tax racket worth an estimated $1 billion a year beginning in the early 80s. A Colombo capo, Michael Franzese was also a partner in the action.  The operation was run by the Russian mobster Marat Balagula, an associate of the Lucchese family.  Because the scheme was so lucrative--second only to drugs--the New York Mafia 'Commission' imposed a 2¢ 'tax' on each gallon of bootlegged gasoline.  US Person does not endorse guilt by association, but it is worth while to consider whether this 'yuge' flow of illegal money needed to be washed to obscure its fraudulent source.  What better place to wash it than in casinos, which deal in nothing but money, or investment in real estate developments where a cash-strapped developer was desperate for capital? 

2 Have you read Mueller's report? No, well neither has Congress according to Rep. Justin Amash (R) who read the report and concluded that Don Veto has committed impeachable offenses, and that Attorney General Barr misrepresented the report.  From his twits, it is apparent that Amash (labeled a "lightweight looser" by the ever vicious Hair Further), understands the unique nature and function of the impeachment process in our constitutional system of government.  Impeachment is not limited to provable statutory crimes beyond a reasonable doubt, but includes abuses of power and conduct that violates the public's trust in the office.  It is a measure of the corrupt nature of our national government that so few representatives are fulfilling their official duties by reading the 400 page report created at great expense to form their own opinions on what it says and does not say.  Their lackadaisical approach and extreme partisanship is the political reality keeping "Desperate Don" in office.  Meanwhile, federal prosecutors from the Southern District of New York are combing through thousands of pages of documents produced pursuant to subpoena issued in February for financial details of Trump's inauguration organization, which raised $107 million.  It is illegal to accept contributions from foreign sources.