Dennis Prager argues that demanding presidential tax returns is meaningless and only serves to humiliate candidates. He calls the demand a left-wing construct rooted in an "alternate universe" and frames it as part of a broader pattern of what he sees as intellectual dishonesty on the left.
I think, and it is a major issue because the President of the United States has been hiding behind his tax returns even when courts order him to come forward with those tax returns.
There they are applauding. I tell you, the left's ability to live in an alternate universe, and I admit I've been in an alternate universe than they do, obviously. Well, one of our universes is real and one is make-believe. Theirs is make-believe. There is zero importance in releasing tax returns. All it does is humiliate candidates. To run for the United— the lie, I'll tell you, it's like the lie of the world is coming to an end because of global warming. The oceans will rise and inundate land. And they believe that, but they're against nuclear power, so they don't really believe it. They believe tax returns tell you a great deal about a presidential candidate, but they don't think it tells you a lot about a senatorial candidate or a House candidate or the editor of the New York Times. Why do— or why— the editor of the New York Times has more clout than any senator or, or congressman. Only the president has more clout. Why don't you demand that they show their tax return? Well, they're not running for office, it's a private company. I understand, but morally, why don't you demand it? I don't say legally, it's not a legal demand on a president either. It's the world of the non-thought-through idea. You cannot be intellectually deep and a leftist. It is not possible. You could be a liberal, you could be a conservative, you could be an independent, you can be a Shinto, Buddhist, Muslim, Jew, Christian, Christian, but you can't be a leftist. It is an intellectual fraud, and it has been since Marx. The things that they applaud, that's the only depressing part. Watching them at each other's neck was not depressing. I'll tell you, they gave enough lines last night for $20 million, $100 million of ads for the Republican Party when the election comes. We'll be back. I'm Dennis Prager.
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