Have everyone in Congress reveal taxes

Recent congressional committee hearings featured quite hostile Democrat committee members intent on getting and drilling down into President Donald Trump's tax returns. I gather that the representatives suspect nefarious deeds will be found if they could get their hands on them. There is no legal requirement for the president to make his returns public. But, there is an obscure 1924 law that says the chairs of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee can seek returns, but not release them to the public.

On the face, it seems these members have no faith in an IRS recently weaponized by the Democrats to harm conservatives. This same IRS has audited President Donald Trump's tax returns for years. Unless we are to believe that they don't know their jobs, surely anything illegal in these returns would have been called out long ago.

Thus, it is clear that these Democratic members lack any legitimate legislative purpose that would justify infringement upon the president's constitutional rights. They are simply continuing a witch hunt and want to further harass and demean the president - their aim since Day 1 of his presidency.

If making politicians' tax returns public is important from a transparency and accountability standpoint, then why doesn't Congress pass a bill that would require all of its members to file complete tax returns for the decade before which they took office; and for every year they remained in office.

This would help to resolve the age-old question of "How is it that when most members of Congress took office in that body, they were men and women of modest means; yet, upon leaving office, they are multimillionaires?"

If the president's attackers won't release all of their tax returns, then he should not release his.

Charles F. Falk

Schaumburg