Every single president and every single Vice President has been audited by the irs every year of their time in office. And they all still routinely release their tax returns to the public every year so that excuse from trump and the Trump Campaign never made sense. Being under audit is excuse for not releasing your tax returns as a candidate or certainly as president. Also, the audit excuse never made sense for his past tax returns. Even if donald trump wanted to release nothing under current audit, well, what about years for which the audits are completed and closed . Any year of his taxes before, say, 2008, any year that was audited before then, those years presumably would be done being audited by now. Those would be closed. So why not release those earlier tax returns even if you dont want to release the current ones for which there isnt an excuse not to do anyway . Whether or not you are a supporter of donald trump in
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Voters in here. See what they had to say a little earlier. This time, i voted for john ossoff. Theres a little message being sent by me and others. No question about that. I also do think there needs to be a check on donald trump. So there you have one voter i talked to who said, look, i want toe a check on donald ump. A lot of the voters i heard from today, they do cast this as a referendum on the president himself, on donald trump. Several republicans i talked to said, you know, god bless donald trump. I will say, this isnt necessarily trump country. Trump didnt win here by as much as tom price did, the congressman who was reelected in 2016 by a 20point margin. Trump won by 1. 5 points. At the same time, it does tell you potentially gives you a sense of the energy that the democrats have. Thats what it is going to take if they are actually going to try to make a dent in the Republican House majority in 2018. Ali . Encourage folks to make their voices heard and to make history here in
Mistaking that car for a giant carrot. It caused 6,000 in damages. Jon the car was parked next to the donkeys enclosure. The man could have picked a better parking spot. That does it for us today, americas news headquarters starts sandra awaiting the start of the White House Press briefing on this very busy day in washington. Hello, everyone. Im sandra smith. We expect fresh white house reaction on tax reform, healthcare and aid for hurricane ravaged puerto rico. We have live fox News Coverage for you. John roberts standing by at the white house. We begin with mike emanuel who is currently live on capitol hill. Mike, the framework is public now, so where do lawmakers go from here on tax reform . Reporter well, sandra, House Speaker paul ryan is among those out selling this tax proposal, saying it will help those who deserve it. Our plan lowers taxes for small family owned businesses. Middle class. Now were Learning Healthcare may also be back in the mix. John roberts is live on the nor
Fewer people will actually pay tax at that rate. Now, let me tell you what else they want to do. They want to nearly double the standard deduction. 12,000 for individuals. 24,000 for married couples. Thats the justification for raising the lowest tax rate from 10 to 12 that a whole lot of people arent actually going to pay for. The plan also calls for the elimination of the socalled marriage penalty. Raising the tax credit for a child under 17 by a yet to be specified amount. And look for a new 500 tax credit for nonchild dependents. That replaces the idea that you can actually otherwise claim nonchild dependents. In addition, the plan calls for repealing the estate tax. What a lot of republicans call the death tax. This benefits generally speaking the wealthy. It also repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax. At lot of you might say i pay the Alternative Minimum Tax. Heres the problem. It was actually meant to be something for the wealthy. Wasnt indexed to inflation so a
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Recognizes that sound. Well, thats correct, brian. If you remember Defense Secretary mattis was the first led the first marines on the ground shortly after 9 11. Lets get with the breaking news, moments ago fox news has learned the taliban claimed responsibility for a massive Rocket Attack at kabuls International Airport. 40 to 45 rockets and rocket propelled grenades landed near the Passenger Terminal just less than two hours after Defense Secretary jim mattis arrived with his entourage which included the press. Now, im told that mattis was in no danger. He had already left the area aboard helicopter and Rocket Attack was not near the location where he landed. But, still, brian, its the same airport and certainly raises a lot of questions about security in afghanistan 16 years after the 9 11 attacks. Now, mattis a day ago was traveling in india, which might have put the taliban on some kind of alert. It was not public that Defense Secretary mattis would be arriving in kabul today. He