Letter to the editor: Why should Trump release his taxes?

With thousands of people illegally crossing our southern border daily to manipulate our asylum laws, and the national debt approaching $22 trillion, President Trump is trying to find solutions to both — he has repeatedly proposed cutting wasteful spending from the budget and controlling the flood of illegals crossing the border. Democrats refuse to do any of this.

Instead, Democrats demand to see the president’s tax returns, as if obsessed with them.

A trip down memory lane to the 2012 elections: Then Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D) said of presidential candidate Mitt Romney (R) — “So the word is out that he (Romney) has not paid any taxes for 10 years. Let him prove he has paid taxes, because he has not.”

Reid’s claim was repeated widely on social media and became accepted as “fact.” The claim was also broadcast on TV news networks, even though Reid provided no evidence of his claim. Romney released his tax returns that showed he paid $6.2 million in taxes over two years.

By Reid’s liar math, $6.2 million in taxes paid = “none.”

Romney lost the election. When Reid was later asked about his peddling of a false claim, he replied (with a smirk) — “Romney didn’t win, did he?”

In the past two years, Democrats have repeatedly slandered Trump as “a Russian agent” without a shred of evidence to support their claim.

Why on earth would anyone hand over their tax returns to professional liars?

C. Colpo

Burgettstown