House Democrats' Report on Trump Taxes Highlights IRS's Failures -- and

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : The actual returns -- with information such as social security and bank account numbers redacted -- will become public in the coming days.
60% : But by the same token, the public ought to be able to trust that Congress -- the body that wields the awesome power to tax -- will think long and hard before exposing a private citizen's tax returns to public view, even if that private citizen happens to be a former president of the United States with aspirations to occupy the White House again.
54% : The staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation produced a report on President Nixon's returns in 1974, but Nixon had voluntarily released his returns for the relevant years.
45% : As a teaser, the committee posted a 39-page report from the staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation that summarized Trump's tax filings for those years.
35% : Moreover, it's not clear why the committee decided to include Trump's tax year 2020 returns in the data dump -- except for the scintillating fact that Trump paid $0 of federal income tax for that year (which was probably not unusual for owners of hotel properties at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic).

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