Tell Congress: Force presidential candidates to release tax returns

For forty years, we have never needed a law to tell presidential candidates to do the right thing by releasing their tax returns. But we have never seen a candidate embrace willful disregard for the truth quite like Donald Trump.

Just days away from election day, we do not know the extent of Donald Trump's tax dodging. We have no sense of his foreign entanglements. We do not know whether he owes large sums of money to Russian or other interests. All we know is Trump suffered such a big loss in 1995 that tax law would have allowed him to pay no federal income taxes for the following 18 years.

Trump's unprecedented attempt to hide his shady financial dealings has exposed a massive flaw in our election law. We need to get behind a bill in Congress that would make it mandatory for presidential candidates to release tax returns.