If Trump wasn't ashamed...

USFREEDOM911 said:
Which has nothing to do with her lessening the total amount by donating $1 million to herself; er. her "foundation". :palm:
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Let's assume the Clintons would have paid $35k on that. Maybe less if that money came from long term cap gains. The question is, what good did that money do in the foundation, compared to the money Trump uses from his bogus foundation to purchase self portraits?
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
But that begs the questions of:
1 - Why?
and
2 - For what purpose?
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Because his entire platform, overt racism aside, is that he's the best candidate because his business acumen will 'make America white again'. I mean 'great' again.


As such, if he's hiding his business failures, we deserve to know.
 
Althea said:
Because his entire platform, overt racism aside, is that he's the best candidate because his business acumen will 'make America white again'. I mean 'great' again.


As such, if he's hiding his business failures, we deserve to know.
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Your response failed to address either of the questions.
Could you try again?
 
Crooked ILLary said:
Well you don't have a right to. So there is that. He is under no legal obligation to
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It isn't about 'rights'. It's about a candidate making false claims, that are easy to confirm if he wanted to. At this point he's lied himself into a corner, with no way out. Only his base doesn't care.

He can't win with only the base.
 
Crooked ILLary said:
Seems Crooked ILLary used the same tax avoidance scheme lefties are shitting their pants over

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-...-hillary-used-same-tax-avoidance-scheme-trump

Now this begs the question. Given she has never owned a bidness, what did she lose $700,000 on?
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-Sigh- You don't have to own a business to have capital gains.

Capital gains. That's profits from the sale of real estate, stocks, bonds, or some other asset. Apparently, she sold something (or somethings) for less than she paid, so she had a loss.

The significance here is that she (along with Bill - they file jointly) PAID $3.6 million in 2015, and their joint effective tax rate was 43.2%. Since 2007, they've paid $43 million in income taxes.

So they pay their taxes, whereas Trump appears to be hiding his returns to avoid absolute confirmation that he doesn't pay any.

Once again, you're comparing apples to orange.

The tax returns from 2007 through 2015 are available for both Clinton AND Kaine are available online right this second - because they have nothing to hide in them.

Trumps? Exactly.
 
tinfoil said:
Probably lost money investing in Solyndra
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A lot of Republican billionaires lost money on Solyndra. Bush's loan to them took too long to come through, and by then Jan Brewer was running her own little Chinese solar manufacturing empire.

Cheap competition, as it were.
 
Stelakh said:
-Sigh- You don't have to own a business to have capital gains.

Capital gains. That's profits from the sale of real estate, stocks, bonds, or some other asset. Apparently, she sold something (or somethings) for less than she paid, so she had a loss.

The significance here is that she (along with Bill - they file jointly) PAID $3.6 million in 2015, and their joint effective tax rate was 43.2%. Since 2007, they've paid $43 million in income taxes.

So they pay their taxes, whereas Trump appears to be hiding his returns to avoid absolute confirmation that he doesn't pay any.

Once again, you're comparing apples to orange.

The tax returns from 2007 through 2015 are available for both Clinton AND Kaine are available online right this second - because they have nothing to hide in them.

Trumps? Exactly.
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Given the market crash in late '15, they probably sold some assets that tanked.

I seem to remember her selling some interests that might have created a conflict for a candidate.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
Where is the proof that he DID use the deduction and paid no further taxes; because the report said the COULD have used it to avoid paying future taxes?

You do understand what "COULD" means, don't you; because it doesn't mean he DID or was REQUIRED too, but then liberals do seem to get their exercise by jumping to conclusions.

I take it you pay more then you need to and never claim any deductions!!
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Yes. We pay more than we MUST pay, because no, we don't take deductions.

As I've already said, we don't NEED to. We are more than very comfortable, the practice turns a good profit, and if we are not floundering, have all we need, and have enough savings for retirement or early retirement, then there is no need to not pay our fair share by "taking advantage of" the laws to get what we don't need.

There's two ways to "scam the system," and both involve going after what you don't need or deserve. My wife and I choose not to do that because we are moral, ethical people.

As to the proof that Trump is taking advantage of every single tax payer who pays fairly by TECHNICALLY legal methods, he appears to have given us that proof. "That makes me smart," which instantly blew up in his face.

We have a statement from the idiot that is his own tacit acknowledgment of him not paying his taxes.

He could turn that around by releasing his tax returns. But he won't - why? The odds are he has something to hide from the American people that would REALLY piss us off.
 
Althea said:
Given the market crash in late '15, they probably sold some assets that tanked.

I seem to remember her selling some interests that might have created a conflict for a candidate.
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Which is likely exactly what happened. And yet still paid over $3 million in taxes - and has proved it.

Not so for Trump.
 
USFREEDOM911 said:
But that begs the questions of:
1 - Why?
and
2 - For what purpose?
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Are you stupid? (The answer is "yes.")

1 - Trump has built his campaign on what a "great businessman" he is and how "successful" he is. If that is not true, people who would vote for him should know.

2 - See 1.
 
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