Originally Posted by Guest

Tax returns are, and should be, a private matter. I don't know when this idea of presidential candidates making their tax returns public, but it should stop now.

Is there any other job where an applicant is required to show his or her tax returns?

They are pretty much irrelevant and are only used by the opposition as gotcha material.

Trump probably paid no income tax. So what? He had legitimate deductions to balance off his income. Are people aware of the multitude of other taxes that he paid? Does anyone consider that someone in his positions is responsible for hundreds of millions in payrolls tax. He is also responsible for employing over 34,000 people and those people pay taxes.

He has a number of corporations that pay corporate taxes.

He is probably responsible for more government revenue that all three Clintons combined.

Tax returns are yet another politicized issue that are meaningless.