OT ...Trump...beginning of the end?

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  1. Messiah717

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    You need this instead.

     
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    cagedlion "I am the problem, and I am the solution."

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    ^^^^Which anus?
     
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    http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/201...st-week-presidential-campaign-history-n658071


    "The New York Times story alone, which both reported that Trump declared he had lost a staggering $916 million in 1995 tax forms, and that experts believe that loss could have allowed him to pay no federal income taxes for up to 18 years, fed into three lines of attack that Hillary Clinton had used to needle him in Monday's debate.

    One: That his refusal to release his taxes suggested he was concealing something important. Two: That his returns might show his business acumen was overstated. Three: That he paid little or no taxes despite his vast wealth.

    And it lent credence to her larger argument that Trump is a heartless scrooge who left a trail of financial destruction on his path to wealth, and who according to the Times even refused to check off a box on his tax form to donate to a veterans' memorial fund.

    As if that wasn't enough, Trump has a long history of both bragging about his efforts to avoid paying taxes while shaming others for paying too little."
     
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    ...oye vey.
     
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    Oh yeah, this country isn't in trouble at all....
     
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    Now the spin by campaign idiocy is that Trump is a genius for not paying any taxes. I am not pleased
    since I pay my taxes which in effect helps the 1%ers to fill the void of their "genius". Go to hell all
    you bastards who live by the loopholes that allow such hypocrisy. Genius my ass.
    So, it is the 1%ers who dictate how the IRS works for them. In essence we are told to go
    fuck ourselves. Then we wonder why we live from paycheck to paycheck!
     
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    Alec Baldwin pronunciation of China.
     
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    Turns out he wrote about being "minus $900M in his book, Art of the Deal"...just sayin'
     
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    ...people can say pretty much anything to help sell a book...false tax with the IRS however, will get you in a lot of trouble. ...just sayin'. :bgrin:

    ...just as with Hillary's baggage from the past, Trump's faux pas won't completely go away until they are answered/addressed.
     
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    no doubt. tough to prove "false" when personal taxes and corporate taxes are so linked in his case. thus the reason he's under continuous audit and yet not in trouble. Don't want to be the Donald defender, but at this point there is still no there there.
     
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    Trump can release his returns but other than that there's no bombshell or scandal he has to answer for here. If there was the IRS would've dealt with it a long time ago.
     
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    especially Obama's IRS.
     
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    ...didn't say or imply there was..I was only responding to Tote's "Art of the Deal" reference.

    ...my point is that;

    1. there's a lot of voters who would not be pleased to know that Trump has possibly paid ZERO taxes for the last 20 years.

    2. if there's no "bombshell" or if he's not hiding anything, why won't he release his taxes.

    3. if Trump truly believes that he was actually "smart" to not have paid taxes, I'd think he would have wanted to release his taxes so everyone could see how "smart" he was.



    ...I can't imagine anyone who actually believes that it's fair for someone like Trump who claims to be worth so much money and is so successful to escape paying income tax and brags about it while people like us pay 20-30% every year.
     
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