Calling his action “long overdue,” President Barack Obama on Friday signed an executive order requiring that the President of the United States be a federal taxpayer.
The order, which makes a non-taxpayer ineligible to serve as President, goes into effect immediately.
“Since the President has such a large say in how federal taxes are spent, it only makes sense that he or she contribute to those taxes, too,” he said, noting that everyone who has served as President has been a taxpayer.
Source: Obama Signs Executive Order Requiring President of United States to Be Taxpayer – The New Yorker