THB that having President Trump release his taxes, causes more harm than good.

Professor Gulyas

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RES: THB that by having President Trump release his tax returns does more harm than good.
Definitions: TH - United States Citizens, Harm - Negative Quality of life changes, Good - Positive Quality of life changes.

Case Type: Value
Voting Criterion: On Balance - Harms vs Goods
Weighing mechinism: Quality of LIfe.

C1) Government overreach
-Trump is private citizen
-Not job of congress or public to investigate tax returns.
- violates 4th amendment - Right to protection from unwarranted Search and seizure 
-Mueller report "no evidence of crime" 
Warrant: Violation of Rights leads to distrust of government
Impacts: Disrust leads to , decreased participation in government, greater inequality, anger / resentment towards government, protests, violence, civil war.
Link: decreased qol

Contention 2: Increased Partisanship
-Not required to release tax returns
-only being pushed by democrats
-reinforces partisanship narrative - "only doing it because dislike president"
Warrant: Reinforces Partisanship
Impacts:  Uni of texas (oct 2018) says partisanship leads directly to  decreased cooperation, decreased compromise, decreased democracy, Increased hatred, increased violence, civil war.
link: decreased qol

contention 3) No need for release
Washington post (april 4th) - Already Audited  by internal revenue - who is supposed to do that. 
Not found guilty of any crimes mueller report
-Lots of time and discussion taken away from: Inequality, war in yemen, famine, imigration, debt, gun reform, etc. 

Warrant: takes away crucial time in congress and public discourse using political capital for an issue that doesn't exist.
Impacts, continuing increase in inequality, deaths in yemen, from gun violence, and famine, increase debt federal and student, decrease housing, homelessness, car ownership down, loss of jobs. in summary, dead babies. 

vote gov

Austin Waterhouse

Your weighing mech can use QOL as a lens for the value - but to whom do we judge the life and its quality? Citizens of Mexico? People in China??

Also, what would you recommend for weighing mechanism?

@mesaprofessorDG, to reply to your second critisism of  C1, I mention how the mueller report has brought no conclusive evidence of crimes with illegal financial dealings, as well as C3 I mention how there is already an audit into his taxes so there's no need to release it publicly

C1 - the reason we need to see his tax returns is that we need proof that he did not have financial dealings w Russians

C1 - saying that Trump is a 'private citizen' - not when he decided to run for POTUS and win the election. He is now Commander in Chief

Things that are wonky and need to be addressed: