Organizers of next Saturday’s Tax March are calling on activists and other concerned Americans to turn out to demand the so-called President release his tax returns.

The largest event will be in Washington, D.C., where the Democrats’ top leaders on tax policy — Senator Ron Wyden from Oregon and Representative Maxine Waters from California — will speak, along with a slate of faith, consumer, labor, and other leaders.

Building on the unprecedented success of the Women’s March in January and the popular uprising to protest the unconstitutional Muslim ban, the organizers of the National Tax March hope to press President “Not-paying-taxes-makes-me-smart” to honor his campaign promise to release his Tax Records and, more broadly, to spotlight Mr Trump’s vast potential conflicts of interest, inadequate attempts at transparency as well as more progressive and equitable tax policies.

According to Delvone Michael, Senior Political Strategist for the National Working Families Party,

Transparency is only one of the many reasons we are calling on Trump to release his tax returns. It’s true that Americans want to know about his conflicts of interest, and foreign entanglements, but it’s equally true that we want to ensure he is pursuing tax policies that will benefit everyday Americans and not simply enriching his wealthy friends, family, and campaign donors.”

The Tax March is planned for Saturday April 15, 2017 (traditionally “Tax Day”) in Washington DC, in 48 states across the country and even in a handful of foreign cities.

Mr. Trump and his surrogates have claimed without evidence that the American people don’t care about his tax returns. The facts are that polls have shown that a large majority of the country supports the idea that the President ought to release his tax records.

Trump personally stands to benefit to the tune of millions of dollars per year if his party’s tax plan were to be implemented. Christopher Faricy assistant professor of political science at The Maxwell School at Syracuse University and the author of “Welfare for the Wealthy: Parties, Social Spending, and Inequality in the US” explains that Trump’s tax proposal represent an unprecedented transfer of wealth to the top echelons of American earners from which he will benefit personally:

Trump’s 2016 tax plan would nearly eradicate Trump’s 2005 tax liability. The elimination of the AMT alone would have reduced his effective tax rate to about 4 percent. While Trump may differ from traditional Republicans rhetorically, he is no populist when it comes to tax policy. His proposals are historically regressive and would make the tax cuts by George W. Bush look small in comparison. Trump’s tax returns may not have delivered the kind of headlines pundits were hoping for, but they do provide strong hints about just who is likely to benefit from Trump’s administration.

More information on the Tax March, including information on marches around the country, can be found at TaxMarch.org

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