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Last Time Trump paid taxes

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by kingkingston, Oct 2, 2016.

  1. Deckard

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    With all respect due, junior, some of us have been paying taxes for several decades and have forgotten more tax law than you've learned during your lucrative career living with your parents.
     
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    If that's all trumpkin his hiding in his IRS return (cough NAMBLA cough), then he has nothing else to lose other than to reveal them like every other Presidential candidate has for the last 40 years.
     
  3. adoo

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    Donald Trump is a con man. and mental midget like you are easy preys for the NY con man
     
  4. Possum

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    And what did Hillary have to hide when she deleted 33000 subpoenaed emails? What was she hiding when she had all those subpoenaed devices smashed with hammers? What are her aids hiding by pleading the 5th?
     
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    There could be many reasons all of which would BE CONJECTURE.
    Well unlike emails, we have asked every presidential candidate in the past half century for tax returns and ALL of them have delivered.
     
  6. Possum

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    Many reasons all of which would be illegal. The difference is that he's not required by law to show his tax returns. She was required by law to show those deleted email's and destroyed devices. Maybe he should just delete his tax returns and say oops I'm sorry I made a mistake. Seems to have worked for Hillary.
     
  7. Possum

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    And what is hillary?
     
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    Someone with actual nuanced policy knowledge and ACTUAL experience in negotiating with other heads of states and high level diplomats.
     
  9. Possum

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    And what has that nuanced policy knowledge and actual experience in negotiating with other heads of states and high level diplomats ever produced? You know besides controversy?
     
  10. Possum

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    Hitler had a lot of those same qualities. I wouldn't vote for him either.
     
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    Those are also legit issues and she's getting hit in the polls because of that and her questionable choices earning fat paychecks from wall street in between government jobs.

    You could say Clinton's legal issues are bigger except she's been investigated and indicted for everything under the moon and still remains untouched. The stain on her name is still there and the voters know.

    The tax return issue is a light one for any businessman interested in politics. You incorporate your holdings and services into different corporations and partnerships and report income from them. Clintons do this because it protects them from further scrutiny and you'll be damn sure Romney, Bloomberg, and Forbes did it before they ran because it makes sense even without politics. The tax return also shows what money and breaks they contributed to charity and other things every American, businessman or otherwise, reports.

    It's one small window into a politicians claims and bona fides (folksy, successful, elite, etc...) moreso than any illegal or fraudulent nature that an irs tax audit implies.
     
  12. Rocket River

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    Legal . . Ethical . . .and moral . . .are all different things
    You cannot b**** about taxes when you don't pay any

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    I'm guessing there are several successful business men who have not lost $1B in a year. For a candidate whose business acumen is supposed to be his strong point, he's showing he's as reckless in business as he is on twitter.
     
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    Whoah, wait. When Hitler was made chancellor, he certainly didn't have experience negotiating with heads of states or high-level diplomats. I'd object to nuanced policy knowledge as well, but that's a subjective argument. But, after doing badly in school, he was a low-level soldier in WWI and shortly thereafter, and then went straight to working for NSDAP doing speeches, fundraising and stuff. After the beer hall putsch, he spent some time in prison and then went back to the party. He also wrote a book. He ran for president and lost. He had never served in any official government position before being named chancellor. Whatever his qualifications might have been, experience was not one of them.
     
  15. Possum

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    Maybe you should Google Bill Gates or Warren Buffett. Maybe you should Google Hillary Clinton's 2015 tax return we're Hillary plane to 699 dollars in Losses to save 3000 dollars.
     

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