Republicans lining up to protect the rich from public scrutiny. And maybe generate some outrage and talking points along the way to deflect from the main game here which was just to release Trump's taxes.
However, the implications of such a move could be significant. By publicly releasing Trump's tax returns, experts and Republican members of the committee said the House Ways and Means Committee demonstrated that anyone's tax returns could be subject to similar treatment, all but ending individual taxpayers' right to privacy.
"My prurient interest says I should be gobbling this information up," Allan Morrison, an associate dean at George Washington University Law School, told Newsweek. "My sense of concern about taxpayers as a whole makes me very uneasy about this."
https://www.newsweek.com/dems-vote-release-trumps-tax-returns-it-may-come-back-bite-them-1768577