As progressives in Illinois wage what amounts to a two-front war against President Trump and Governor Rauner, they’re always on the watch for a two-birds-with-one-stone kind of weapon.
As we all know, Trump’s the only major-party presidential candidate since the 1960s not to release any of his tax returns.
(Actually, I’d take it back a step further: Republican intransigence didn’t start with the Tea Party. Republicans have been unbending in their opposition to anything the Democrats propose since former congressman Newt Gingrich seized control of the party in the midterm elections of 1994.)
In January, Rachel Maddow featured Indivisible on her nightly TV show. They’ve been forming affiliates all over the country ever since.
In rebuttal, state Democrats replied that there are law professors who say such bills are constitutional—so see you in court.
However, there are similar income-tax-disclosure bills coming up in red states like Tennessee and Kansas, as well as swing states like Michigan and Ohio. So this could get interesting if Indivisible keeps pushing.
