Alaska's marijuana industry finally pays more than a million dollars in monthly tax revenue.

Courtesy of ADN: 

In January, for the first time since legal sales began, Alaska's commercial cannabis growers paid more than $1 million in state taxes, according to officials. 

Eighty-one marijuana cultivators paid $1,040,512 in taxes during the first month of 2018, said Kelly Mazzei, excise tax supervisor at the Alaska Department of Revenue. 

Alaska marijuana growers pay the state tax of $50 per ounce of cannabis bud, and $15 an ounce for other parts of the plant, like the trimmings of leaves and stems. 

A total of 1,061 pounds of marijuana, and 797 of trim, were sold wholesale in January.

This may only be of interest to those of us living up here in the Last Frontier, but I have been predicting for awhile that the pot industry would start to be a real source of revenue for the state and I am glad to see that is finally happening.

It of course will never replace the oil tax revenue, but it is at least one tax source that will not be undermined by the switch to renewable resources.

Which by the way could be yet another profitable source of tax revenue if lawmakers would pull their lips of the asses of oil barons long enough to notice.

We are way behind in finding revenue sources outside of the oil industry, and it is going to get ugly up here if we do not become more proactive.

Thanks to Trump's new tax law the government is about to go almost another trillion in debt. MAGA!

Courtesy of WaPo: 

It was another crazy news week, so it's understandable if you missed a small but important announcement from the Treasury Department: The federal government is on track to borrow nearly $1 trillion this fiscal year — Trump's first full year in charge of the budget. 

That's almost double what the government borrowed in fiscal year 2017. 

Here are the exact figures: The U.S. Treasury expects to borrow $955 billion this fiscal year, according to a documents released Wednesday. It's the highest amount of borrowing in six years, and a big jump from the $519 billion the federal government borrowed last year.

Treasury mainly attributed the increase to the “fiscal outlook.” The Congressional Budget Office was more blunt. In a report this week, the CBO said tax receipts are going to be lower because of the new tax law. 

As you can see from the chart we have borrowed more, but keep in mind that was to save the auto industry and the US economy.

In other words Obama's debt was the result of Republican mismanaging of the economy, and now so is Donald Trump's.

You know when the Tea Party was first formed one of its main attack points was the national debt, I can hardly wait to hear how silent they will remain about this.

The good news, Wal-Mart is giving out $1,000 bonuses to some employees and raising their minimum wage to $11.00. The bad news, they are closing 63 of their Sam's Club stores, including all of those in Alaska.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Walmart has announced that it will lay off thousands of workers across the country as it closes dozens of Sam's Club locations. 

The announcement comes on the same day the retail giant announced it was raising its starting minimum wage for new employees to $11 an hour. 

The company told Business Insider that 63 Sam's Club stores will close. 

Some locations reportedly stopped business suddenly on Thursday without giving advance warning to employees.

Along with the higher minimum wage, Walmart announced earlier Thursday that it would expand parental leave and give some employees one-time bonuses of up to $1,000 following the passage of the GOP tax overhaul.

Well that last part's nice, you know for those Wal-Mart employees who managed to keep their jobs.

Ironically the announcement about the store closings only happened after Paul Ryan made these remarks:  

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) praised Walmart's gesture to raise its employees' wages on Thursday, calling the tax bill a major help to middle-income families. 

"Today marks 20 days since the Tax Cut and Jobs Act became the law of the land," Ryan said. "Already, this new law is helping to improve the lives of middle-income families across the country. You saw the announcement from Walmart just this morning: more than a million Americans are due to receive their bonuses because of tax reform."

You know if this weren't so damn pathetic it would almost be funny.

I first learned about this when I received a text yesterday informing me that all of the Alaska Sam's Club locations had suddenly locked their doors.

Courtesy of KTVA: 

All Sam’s Club locations in Alaska are closing, as part of an unannounced nationwide rollback of the Walmart-owned wholesale club’s stores. 

KTVA viewer Joe Gerace, owner of the Chevron gas station outside the Dimond Fred Meyer, said he visited an Anchorage Sam’s Club location for before-hours business shopping Thursday and found security officers turning customers away at the door.

Now personally I'm a Costco shopper so this does not directly affect me, but it does mean that suddenly there are a bunch of unemployed Alaskans looking for new jobs.

Lisa Murkowski just betrayed the people of Alaska and the American people.

Courtesy of Politico:  

Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she supports GOP efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act's individual mandate, the Alaska Republican wrote in an op-ed for a local newspaper Friday. "I have always supported the freedom to choose," Murkowski wrote in her op-ed for the Daily News-Miner, an Alaska newspaper.

 "I believe that the federal government should not force anyone to buy something they do not wish to buy, in order to avoid being taxed." 

Murkowski's renewed support for repealing the mandate — after repeatedly opposing her party's Obamacare repeal bills this year — may be a boon for Senate Republicans' tax legislation, which includes mandate repeal and is expected to be taken up on the Senate floor next week. 

A spokesperson for Murkowski told POLITICO that the comments should not be construed as support for the tax bill, which does not yet appear to have sufficient support to pass the chamber. 

“Senator Murkowski said on Friday that she will be reviewing the work of the Finance Committee over the Thanksgiving holiday and plans to look at the entire package before coming to any conclusion on the legislation," the spokesperson said.

Murkowski gained some national prominence, and the undying support of the Alaska people, when she was a "no" vote on the GOP plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.

However this time around apparently she is choosing oil over healthcare.

Courtesy of Think Progress:

Murkowski was a key vote in stopping repeal of the Affordable Care Act earlier this year, but there’s one crucial difference this time around: repealing the individual mandate is tied to the Republican’s tax bill, which also includes legislation opening up the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for drilling. 

Murkowski has supported opening portions of the refuge to development for years, though her efforts have been met with little success. This most recent push — which would require only a simple majority to pass — might be Murkowski’s best chance to accomplish a long-held goal.

Murkowski knows full well that doing away with this mandate would undermine the solvency of the program, and result in higher premiums and fewer people being insured.

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

By 2027, absent a mandate, the number of Americans without coverage would rise by 13 million, while premiums would be up an additional 10 percent, according to the most recent assessment by the Congressional Budget Office ― although the CBO is currently re-evaluating its model, and Republicans say the agency wildly overestimates the mandate’s effects.

Senator Murkowski made a promise to the people of Alaska, and whether she admits it or not, she just broke it.

And she has just now made herself vulnerable in the next election cycle.

Guess what? Your tax dollars are being used to protect Donald Trump's private businesses from lawsuits.

Courtesy of USA Today: 

Taxpayers are footing the legal bill for at least 10 Justice Department lawyers and paralegals to work on lawsuits related to President Trump's private businesses. 

Neither the White House nor the Justice Department will say how much it is costing taxpayers, but federal payroll records show the salaries of the government lawyers assigned to the cases range from about $133,000 to $185,000. 

The government legal team is defending President Trump in four lawsuits stemming from his unusual decision not to divest himself from hundreds of his companies that are entangled with customers that include foreign governments and officials. 

In the cases, Justice Department attorneys are not defending policy actions Trump took as president. Instead, the taxpayer-funded lawyers are making the case that it is not unconstitutional for the president's private companies to earn profits from foreign governments and officials while he's in office. 

The government lawyers and Trump's private attorneys are making the same arguments — that the Constitution's ban on a president taking gifts from foreign interests in exchange for official actions does not apply to foreign government customers buying things from Trump's companies. The plaintiffs, including ethics groups and competing businesses, argue the payments pose an unconstitutional conflict of interest.

Hey, remember when the Founding Fathers laid out all of those rules to protect this country from becoming an oligarchy or from being taken over by a dictator?

Boy those were the good old days, weren't they? 

Connecticut Representative rips new GOP tax plan to pieces.

"This is outrageous!"

Congressman John Larson shows his outrage & goes off on the GOP for their shady practices regarding their Tax Scam Plan. 🔥👊pic.twitter.com/GgSqBu5qtX

— Ricky Davila 🇵🇷 (@TheRickyDavila) November 8, 2017

I think this bill may die just like those Republican attempts to repeal and replace Obamacare.

Not only are their policies terrible for the American people but they are so ashamed of them they will not even allow any hearings or expert testimony.

This is some shady shit my friends. 

Special Counsel Robert Mueller applies increasing pressure on Paul Manafort.

Courtesy of the Miami Herald:  

Paul Manafort’s place in the crosshairs of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into the Kremlin’s attempts to sway the 2016 presidential election seems to be growing more uncomfortable. 

Two sources familiar with the inquiry tell McClatchy that investigators are working to confirm information indicating that Manafort and the consulting firms he led earned between $80 million and $100 million over a decade from pro-Moscow Ukrainian and Russian clients. 

Mueller’s expanded focus on Manafort’s complicated financial picture is zeroing in on whether he may have evaded taxes or engaged in any money laundering schemes, the sources say, and the hunt for his financial records through a labyrinth of offshore bank and business accounts has become an important prong of the investigation. 

Given his pro-Kremlin connections and his closeness to the campaign, Manafort was uniquely positioned to play a role in any collusion between the campaign and operatives working on behalf of the Russian government to help elect Trump. 

Whether Manafort can be squeezed depends in part on whether he failed to report foreign income and overseas bank accounts annually to the Internal Revenue Service as required by law. The volume of money said to be involved and the time elapsed could put him at significant risk.

The IRS is involved? Well Manafort is screwed now.

There is some evidence that Manafort is already cooperating with the investigators, but whether he has flipped or not the existence of this increasingly bad information now being leaked to the press means that he may have little choice but to cooperate or face a rather lengthy prison term. 

All in all this should have Trump shitting bricks.

Alaska's legal marijuana industry has now paid more than a million dollars in taxes.

Courtesy of Alaska Dispatch.

Courtesy of KTUU: 

Alaska's marijuana industry has brought in more than $1 million in tax revenue since commercial sales began in October. 

The Juneau Empire reports that June 30 was the due date for Alaska cannabis growers to pay taxes collected in May. The state's May revenue was $272,600, which is the highest of any month since October and pushed overall tax revenue to $1.2 million. 

The Department of Revenue predicted earlier this year that the state would collect $2 million in the fiscal year that ended July 1. The revenue will miss that mark, but sales are on the verge of increasing. 

Kelly Mazzei of the department's tax division says outdoor growing operations have not yet made their first harvest. She says when that happens the state's tax revenue might soar.

I have to admit that this started off slower than I anticipated, but it looks like legalized weed might finally be making some impact on Alaska's bottom line.

Not much yet of course, but if Alaskans start consuming weed in the same amounts they do alcohol and ice cream this could be huge.

The great Kansas trickle down experiment has failed. Spectacularly.

Courtesy of WaPo: 

The Kansas legislature finally put a stop to the predictably failed trickle-down tax-cut experiment it began in 2012. 

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R) had vetoed a bill that partially reset income-tax rates to where they were before the cuts and closed a huge loophole — importantly, one mimicked in President Trump’s tax plan. But on Tuesday, lawmakers overrode the governor’s veto.

They didn’t have much of a choice. Based on their fiscal outlook — the state faces a $900 million shortfall — Kansas’s bond rating has been downgraded twice by two rating agencies. The state has burned through its reserves.

Jesus, a nine million dollar shortfall. That is an almost Biblical catastrophe to fall on such a small state.

And it exists solely because Republicans do not understand economics.

Something to keep in mind, as the author points out, is that this is exactly the kind of trickle down approach to the federal budget that Donald Trump and the Republicans would like to inflict on the American people.

Which means that the Trump budget must be rejected just as his Secretary of Education's budget was rejected the other day.

Study finds that single payer health care system could save Californians 37.5 billion annually.

Courtesy of Mercury News:  

As the California Senate considers voting this week on a proposal to replace private health insurance with a statewide health plan that covers everyone, the bill’s main backers on Wednesday heralded a new study that says the plan could save Californians $37.5 billion annually in health care spending — even after adding the state’s nearly 3 million uninsured. 

The favorable findings by economists at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, comes a week after a Senate committee released eye-popping estimates that threatened to dampen enthusiasm for the bill. The committee’s analysis projected that the statewide plan would cost $400 billion annually, half of which would likely need to come from workers and businesses through a 15 percent payroll tax.

If the state adopts a single-payer plan, “Californians will get more and will definitely pay less,” Sen. Ricardo Lara, D-Bell Gardens, the co-author of Senate Bill 562, said at a news conference Wednesday.

If California passes this bill, and it is even half as successful as predicted, the argument against a nation wide single payer system will become even harder to make.

(I wrote this post yesterday, but since then the vote has taken place and the bill has passed.)

Bill Maher once said "As goes California, so goes the rest of the country."

And that is typically correct, though it does take some portions of the country decades to catch up.

In other news it appears that the GOP health care plan has virtually NO support.

Courtesy of CNN Money:

Americans are not too enamored with the House GOP bill to repeal Obamacare. 

Only 8% think the Senate should pass the legislation as is, according to a new poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation. 

About half of respondents think the upper chamber should make either "major" or "minor" changes to it, while 29% say the Senate should not pass the bill.

Can you say "dead in the water?"

Let's face it Americans have seen the future and it is government run single payer health care for all.

The AHCA in a nutshell.

It's always about the taxes.

Donald Trump wants to know who paid the tax day protesters. Okay, then I want to know who paid this Trump supporter to punch a woman in the face.

@realDonaldTrump White supremacist @NathanDamigo sucker-punched a woman at a #Trump protest in #Berkeley, CA. #NathanDamigo #Trumpism pic.twitter.com/10Zkw13Lcu

— Jeffrey Guterman (@JeffreyGuterman) April 16, 2017

Courtesy of Slate:  

As supporters and opponents of Donald Trump clashed violently in Berkeley, Calif. on Saturday, video of the confrontations quickly made their way to social media showing the two sides exchanging blows and heated words. One particularly shocking video immediately became viral as it showed a Trump supporter delivering a forceful sucker punch to the face of a young woman who seems to have been completely taken by surprise and fell to the ground. Social media users quickly identified the aggressor as Nathan Damigo, founder of white supremacist group Identity Evropa.

Well that is really disgusting.

It even pissed off Captain America.

I hope I run into Nathan. https://t.co/bPfSObqiGl

— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) April 16, 2017

There have been a number of claims on social media that the violence was actually started by agitators who were there, NOT to protest for either side, but rather to start fights and create a meme that anti-Trump folks are violent thugs.

THAT by the way is a favorite tactic of Vladimir Putin. 

It should also be noted that MOST of yesterday's protests were completely free of any violence.

Donald Trump celebrates Easter in the traditional manner by posting Tweets boasting about his election win, bitching about tax day protests, and preparing the country for World War 3.

Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem? We will see what happens!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

First tweet for today essentially says that Trump will not insult China as long as they do what he wants.

THAT'S the holiday spirit!

Happy Easter to everyone!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

Okay there we go, that seems appropriate.

I did what was an almost an impossible thing to do for a Republican-easily won the Electoral College! Now Tax Returns are brought up again?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

Uh, okay.

Once again let's remind everybody that Trump's electoral college victory was the smallest in recent presidential history.

As for the tax returns, yes those will likely continue to be an issue until the American people get a chance to see why Trump is working so hard to hide them.

Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

Citizens of this country do not have to be paid to fight for our rights.

Trump is thinking of politicians.

 And finally (For right now at least.) there was this.

Our military is building and is rapidly becoming stronger than ever before. Frankly, we have no choice!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 16, 2017

That's right kids, gather up those eggs. Because you are going to need the protein in order to fight in the inevitable world war that a Trump presidency will surely lead to. 

And there you have Donald Trump's first Easter as the commander-in-chief.

Have you ever been more terrified? 

It's tax day, have you decided where to file your protest yet?

Courtesy of The Hill:

Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend rallies on Saturday that are aimed at pressuring President Trump to release his tax returns. 

The events, which will be held as the tax-filing deadline approaches, are one of a number of protests that have sprung up since Trump’s election, including the women’s march held the day after the inauguration. 

The marches come eight years after Tea Party rallies on President Obama’s first Tax Day in office. 

Trump’s tax returns are a long-running controversy from his presidential campaign. 

In a sharp break with precedent, Trump has refused to release the documents, blaming an audit. But the IRS says that nothing prevents people from releasing their own tax information.

Remember folks our tax dollars are now being used to pay for Trump's extravagant lifestyle, to provide additional security for his Secretary of Education, and to pay for the golf carts used by Trump's Secret Service at Mar-a-Lago.

And all of this is happening for a man who we are not even sure is even paying HIS OWN taxes! #Showyourtaxes

The protests are not just in this country by the way, but will also be taking place in parts of the world as far away as Great Britain and Japan.

The whole world is tired of this orange tinged POS, and we should never stop reminding him of that fact.

A petition is circulating calling for Melania Trump to move to the White House or pay her own security while Florida wants Donald Trump to start reimbursing them for his visits.

Courtesy of AOL News:  

An online petition is calling for first lady Melania Trump to move to the White House or pay for her own security at New York City's Trump Tower. 

The Change.org petition, addressed to the U.S. Senate, has collected tens of thousands of signatures since it was started a week ago. 

"The U.S. taxpayer is paying an exorbitant amount of money to protect the First Lady in Trump Tower, located in New York City," the petition reads. "As to help relieve the national debt, this expense yields no positive results for the nation and should be cut from being funded." 

Police Commissioner James O'Neill told lawmakers last month that securing Trump Tower cost his department $127,000 to $146,000 each day, with this daily rate reaching $308,000 when the president is actually in the city.

This seems more than fair to me.

Florida is also being crushed beneath the financial burden of having a president visit their state almost every weekend.

Courtesy of The Hill: 

Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) called on Trump to either provide federal reimbursements to the local governments incurring increased security costs or cut back his trips to the resort. 

“While we want the fullest protection for your visits, we hope you would be responsive to the losses of small businesses and residents of Palm Beach County,” Frankel wrote in a letter to Trump released on Monday, which was co-signed by fellow Democratic Florida Reps. Alcee Hastings and Ted Deutch. 

“If compensation is not assured of being forthcoming, we respectfully ask that you curtail your visits until such time as that matter is resolved favorably to our area.” 

The lawmakers outlined the piling costs of Trump’s visits to Mar-a-Lago to date: $1.7 million in overtime work paid by the the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Department and Fire Rescue and $60,000 in overtime to the City of West Palm Beach law enforcement handling protests. 

 Trump’s hosting of Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago next month is expected to cost the sheriff and fire departments $280,000 alone, according to the letter. 

Trump's weekend visits also interrupt air traffic, costing the airport around $30,000 each time.

It does not take a financial wizard to recognize that this is easily the most expensive presidency in American history. And let's not forget that Trump is also planning to cut taxes for the extremely wealthy and will instead attempt to finance his extravagant lifestyle by cutting social service programs that serve the neediest among us.

Let's face it, this country simply cannot afford a Trump presidency.

Shell Oil appears to throw in the towel and pledges to spend a billion dollars a year on renewable energy while asking for a fossil fuel tax.

Courtesy of The Independent: 

Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is to increase its spending on renewable energy to $1bn (£800m) a year, its chief executive announced as he warned the public’s faith in the industry was “just disappearing”. 

Ben van Beurden suggested the public backlash against fossil fuel firms could threaten the industry’s future. 

He also said it was essential that countries imposed a price on carbon emissions to help phase out the use of coal and oil, sources of large amounts of greenhouse gases that are driving climate change. 

This perhaps surprising message – a request from a business for governments to make their costs higher – was delivered at an energy conference in Texas, Reuters reported.

Well we knew this had to be coming around at some point. After all just about the whole world is now focusing on renewable energy now. 

I just can't help but wish Shell and all of their other big oil buddies would have done this twenty five years ago when it would have actually made a big difference.

The majority of Americans disagree with nearly every single one of Trump's policy positions save one.

New post

Courtesy of WaPo: 

Among the many questionable claims that have come from the White House over the past month and a half, one of the most questionable came from an unexpected source: Chief of Staff Reince Priebus. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference last month, Priebus asserted that the policies President Trump had outlined to that point met with the approval of 80 percent of the American public. We considered that claim and determined it to be true — if you considered only Republicans to be Americans. 

An expansive new poll from Quinnipiac University allows us to look at the question more closely. The pollsters gauged public opinion on a broad range of issues that have already emerged from the Trump White House — policy on Russia, transgender school bathroom use, deportations. On only one did more people agree with Trump’s position than oppose it.

Gee, Trump and his spokespeople lie, had no idea. 

I am also on board with spending more on infrastructure.

My only caveat is that I would like somebody besides Trump and his corporate buddies to be in charge of that spending.

Just the idea of the guy who repeatedly filed for bankruptcy and is famous for not paying his debts being in charge of spending billions of taxpayer dollars makes me very uncomfortable. 

As for every one of his policies you can put me down as a big fat "NO!"

Donald Trump plans to build a helicopter pad at Mar-A-Lago. Your tax dollars at work.

Courtesy of the Daily Mail: 

President Donald Trump is constructing a helicopter landing pad on the grounds of Mar-a-Lago. 

The president is building the landing spot at his private club so that he can fly there directly on Marine One from the nearby airport in Palm Beach instead of landing at the airport and traveling there by motorcade, according toPage Six. 

The logistical hassle of getting Trump to Mar-a-Lago appears to be the motivation behind the Marine One helipad. 

Until now, Trump has flown Air Force One to Palm Beach International Airport and then taken his presidential motorcade. 

The president's limo and Marine One, whose fleet numbers around 35 helicopters, are transported to wherever the president is traveling by Air Force military transport carriers like the C-17 Globemaster III or the C-5 Galaxy. 

At Mar-a-Lago, construction posts are now seen at the site, where a 50-foot-wide dirt pit has been dug up on the west lawn. 

Okay first off why is Trump constantly going to Mar-A-Lago in the first place?

And secondly why do WE have to pay for a helipad to make it easier for him?

Add this cost to the millions taxpayers are already spending to allow his family to safely live in New York, and the security required while Trump hobnobs with his guests at Mar-A-Lago and this extravagance is now becoming obscene.  

Just like her daddy Ivanka Trump seems to have trouble paying her taxes as well.

Courtesy of The Daily Mail:  

After a rocky few months for Ivanka Trump's clothing and jewelry lines as a number of major retail chains dropped her products from their real and virtual shelves, her brand has encountered yet another setback. 

According to legal documents obtained by DailyMail.com, Ivanka Trump Fine Jewelry was hit with a New York State lien on January 26, accusing the company of failing to pay over $5,000 in taxes. 

The Fifth Avenue jewelry store, located within Trump Tower, carries high-end pieces ranging from $1,000 to $20,000. The shop is officially listed as Madison Avenue Diamonds LLC. 

I have every confidence that if you examined the finances for every one of the Trump family members you would find problems with their taxes.

These are people who simply do not believe that the laws or the rules apply to them.

These are grifters who make the Palin family look like a rag tag group of wandering pickpockets.

Congressman moves ahead with using old law to gain access to Donald Trump's tax returns.

Oh shit!

Courtesy of USA Today: 

A New Jersey congressman says a rarely invoked 1924 law could be used to examine President Donald Trump's tax returns for possible conflicts of interest and Constitutional violations. 

Rep. Bill Pascrell, a Democrat who serves on the Ways and Means Committee, has asked the committee’s chairman, Rep. Kevin Brady of Texas, to order the Treasury Department to provide tax returns to the committee. Brady's office did not respond to a request for comment Friday. 

After privately examining returns — Pascrell is seeking 10 years' worth — the committee could decide to share them with the full House, which would in effect make them public. The 1924 law gives congressional committees that set tax policy the power to examine tax returns. It was used in 1974 when Congress looked at President Richard Nixon's returns, and in 2014 when the Ways and Means Committee released confidential tax information as part of its investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's handling of applications for nonprofit status.

You may remember that I brought this ability by Congress to get their hands on Trump's tax returns on Wednesday. At the time I could not understand why nobody was dong this.

Well now they are.

I have no idea how long Trump can restrain himself from attacking this guy on Twitter, since we all know that this is perhaps one of his greatest fears.

I am not at all sure what is in these tax returns (Though I can imagine,) but whatever it is Trump is clearly desperate to keep them away from public scrutiny.