Dennis Prager Show - Tax Returns Tell us Nothing About Candidates
Aired: 2020-02-20
Duration: 02:29


=== Tax Returns and Alternate Realities (02:15) ===

[00:00:00]  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.
[00:00:12]  There they are applauding.
[00:00:13]  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.
[00:00:26]  Well, one of our universes is real, and one is make-believe.
[00:00:30]  Theirs is make-believe.
[00:00:32]  There is zero importance in releasing tax returns.
[00:00:35]  All it does is humiliate candidates.
[00:00:40]  To run for the United States, the lie, I'll tell you, it's like the lie of the world is coming to an end because of global warming.
[00:00:48]  The oceans will rise and inundate land.
[00:00:55]  They believe that, but they're against nuclear power.
[00:00:57]  So they don't really believe it.
[00:01:00]  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.
[00:01:14]  The editor of the New York Times has more clout than any senator or congressman.
[00:01:19]  Only the president has more clout.
[00:01:21]  Why don't you demand that they show their tax return?
[00:01:25]  Well, they're not running for office.
[00:01:26]  It's a private company.
[00:01:28]  I understand.
[00:01:28]  But morally, why don't you demand it?
[00:01:30]  I don't say legally.
[00:01:31]  It's not a legal demand on a president either.
[00:01:37]  It's the world of the non-thought-through idea.
[00:01:41]  You cannot be intellectually deep and a leftist.
[00:01:44]  It is not possible.
[00:01:45]  You could be a liberal, you could be a conservative, you could be an independent, you could be a Shinto, Buddhist, Muslim, Jew, Christian, but you can't be a leftist.
[00:01:56]  It is an intellectual fraud, and it has been since Marx.

=== $100 Million in Ads (00:28) ===

[00:02:04]  The things that they applaud, that's the only depressing part.
[00:02:09]  Watching them at each other's neck was not depressing.
[00:02:17]  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.
[00:02:27]  We'll be back.
[00:02:28]  I'm Dennis Prager.