Weaponizing Tax Returns – WSJ

Many rules have been broken in American politics in recent years, and one of them is the use of private tax returns as a political weapon. The trend is destructive, as a pair of events this week illustrate.

The first is a useful hedge fund manager’s lawsuit Ken Griffin against the Internal Revenue Service for damages for the leak of his tax records to ProPublica. In June 2021 and in articles since, the left-wing website published confidential tax data of Mr. Griffin, who runs the Citadel Securities, and other wealthy Americans.