This is pretty funny:
In a swipe at presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump, Sen. Ron Wyden (R-OR) on Wednesday introduced legislation that would require presidential nominees to make their tax returns public.
“Tax returns deliver honest answers to key questions from the American public,” Wyden said in a press release announcing the bill. “Do you even pay taxes? Do you give to charity? Are you abusing tax loopholes at the expense of middle class families? Are you keeping your money offshore? People have a right to know.”
Wyden’s Presidential Tax Transparency Act would apply to both Democrats and Republicans, but Trump is the only candidate in the race who has not released any of his returns. Over 30 years of Hillary Clinton's returns are available on her campaign website, while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has released his 2014 filings.
Wyden’s bill would require candidates to release the past three years of returns within 15 days of being nominated at the party conventions. If a candidate refused to release his or her returns to the Federal Election Commission, the Treasury Secretary would be required to provide them under the legislation.
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Trump’s campaign has argued that Americans simply aren’t interested in the Manhattan real estate mogul’s tax returns. Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s campaign manager, on Tuesday even claimed that there is “nothing to learn” from them.
“I strongly disagree with that,” Wyden told The Huffington Post on a Wednesday call with reporters. “For literally four decades now, Democrats, Republican, candidates regardless of party have made this information available.”
Indeed, there is evidence that refusing to release any returns may hurt Trump in the general election. According to a Morning Consult survey released Tuesday, 67 percent of registered voters — including 60 percent of Republicans — said presidential candidates should release their tax returns.
Senate Democrats have stirred the pot on the issue of tax returns before. During the 2012 election, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) infamously claimed that Mitt Romney paid no taxes, upping the pressure on the Republican standard-bearer to release his tax returns. When he finally did so, they showed he paid a low 14 percent tax rate in 2011.
Your move, Donald.