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| TRUMP: Still thinks taxes are 'nunaya' business |
Personally, I’m not going to get so worked up – I realize we have a president who’s not interested in making the usual gestures of openness to the public and probably doesn’t want us knowing exactly how much more wealthy he is than the bulk of us.
BECAUSE
THAT MIGHT be the final straw that would make many of the so-called working
people who voted for him realize how ridiculous their presumptions about him
were.
Besides,
I also have to admit that even when government officials do release their
returns, it’s usually because there are circumstances that they wish to
exploit.
They’re
doing so for their own political gain. Not because of any sense that they’re
exposing themselves to the sunshine of truth and honesty and all that other
good-government rhetoric.
If
anything, Trump’s telling of the American people to “drop dead” on this issue
might well be the most honest thing a government official can say. It shows us
his arrogance, rather than us having to make us all dizzy with his political “spin.”
I
CAME TO that realization on Friday when I learned how state Sen. Daniel Biss,
D-Evanston, who also is one of the people seeking the Democratic Party’s
nomination for governor.
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| BISS: Poor little legislator |
He
released the return he filed for 2016 to show just how far his income as a
state senator had declined – an adjusted gross income of just over $32,500 even
though in past years he had income in the range of $55,000.
But
let’s not forget this past year was one in which state legislators had their
own paychecks delayed because of the lack of a state government budget to
authorize such payments.
Now, we can see for ourselves just what a financial blow the politicking over our state budget has had on the poor individual lawmakers. How sad!
I DO HAVE to admit that if I had to take a $20,000 shortfall in my income, it would be a financial blow. It would hurt. My guess is that Biss wants us all to feel similar sentiment.
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I’m
also guessing that gubernatorial candidates J.B. Pritzker, Chris Kennedy and
Ameya Pawar (all of whom have told the Capitol Fax newsletter they will be
releasing their tax returns in coming days) will find similar ways to make
political statements placing themselves in the most favorable light.
Even
Gov. Bruce Rauner is most likely to find a way to make himself look good and
somehow bear a resemblance to the masses of Illinois on whose behalf he wishes
to govern for four more years.
It’s
just the kind of cheap rhetoric that can make this time of year most annoying
for a political reporter-type person. All the self-serving talk being spewed
about!
WHICH
KIND OF makes me wonder if we should be thankful that Trump, in his eternal
sense of arrogance, isn’t giving us a load of political B.S. to contemplate.
There really are limits to how much we, the people, should have to put up with. Which is why some of us will gather Saturday at rallies across the country, including in Chicago's Daley Plaza, along with suburban Naperville and in Chesterton, Ind.
Even
though we can wonder how Trump is clueless enough to realize he’s missing a
significant chance to humanize himself – and possibly detract from the reports
coming out trashing himself and first lady Melania for the lack of activity to prepare for
the White House Lawn Easter Egg hunt that has been a D.C. tradition for
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| Image remains relevant all these yrs later |
Although
humanizing Trump could just be an impossible task, because the man gives us so many
other examples of his unfitness for the office to which 46 percent of the
electorate was able to anoint him to last year.
And
now, I must turn my attention to my own tax returns – which I must admit that I
haven’t even started as of the point in time I’m writing this commentary. It’s
a good thing the Easter holiday weekend gives us a few extra days until Tuesday’s
Tax Day deadline!
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