Congressman Dave Reichert expresses concern about congress using its “powers to rummage around in the tax returns of the President” (Valley Record, May 4).

The President is proposing massive tax cuts for the wealthy. How can this be properly evaluated without knowing how the President, his family and his businesses will benefit? I am happy to share my tax returns with anybody in exchange for the President’s. It is silly to equate them. Increased scrutiny comes with public service.

Reichert knows the law, he simply chooses to apply it selectively. He shamefully frightens his constituency with the specter of being audited by the IRS.

Reichert is sworn to protect us from enemies foreign and domestic. Well, the President owns commercial properties in Turkey and the Philippines. He has cozied up to Dutarte and Erdogan, the murderous, authoritarian leaders of these countries, compromising our country’s standing as a moral leader of nations.

Our country is being run like a business, a Trump/Kushner private business. The president and his family are personally benefitting financially and commercially leveraging their positions of power. This is wrong. But for fear of overreach Congressman Reichert won’t vote to require the President release his taxes? It’s time for Reichert to do his job and get busy rummaging around in the President’s tax returns. It is what we are paying him to do.

Mark Joselyn

North Bend