'The roughneck politics over release of tax returns has century-old roots in two California oil fields.' LATimesSkelton writes:
When he was California governor, Ronald Reagan opposed switching to payroll withholding of income taxes, arguing the state should stick with annual lump payments. Turned out, the conservative Republican hadn’t paid any state income tax the previous year.
Even before that, California Gov. Ronald Reagan gave Democrats a strong reason for demanding the release of his returns. That’s what an obscure law stemming from the Teapot Dome scandal allows Congress to do. House Ways and Means Chairman Richard E. Neal is using the statute. He’s seeking Trump’s returns.
A Watergate lawsuit contained passing reference to a $500,000 tax deduction Nixon claimed for donating 1,000 boxes of papers to the National Archives. Reporters jumped on the story and foundered. Democrats demanded an audit. But Nixon opposed it and refused to release his taxes. The IRS deferred to the president.
Since then, all major-party presidential nominees — except President Ford in 1976 and Trump in 2016 — have voluntarily released their tax returns. Ford at least provided a summary. Trump offered only poppycock. The student, Rose King, reported on air that Reagan had paid no state income tax for 1970. Not many people heard her show. But she also interned for state Senate Democratic Caucus Chairman Mervyn Dymally of Los Angeles. Dymally tipped off a Capitol television reporter. And Reagan was asked about it at his weekly news conference.
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