Last time Trump paid taxes Clutch had hair. Completely guessing, but wouldn't be surprised. Is this factual @Clutch ?
You do? Just so I can penetrate that amazing mental gymnastics bubble you live in, even posters who agree with you believe you are the lowest common denominator poster with the most platitude and zero nuance. I think you are the last person to educate people on how taxes work. For all we know, you still are a dependent and don't even do your own returns which wouldn't surprise me or majoirty of posters here. You sound like every other 16 year old male reddit user who wants to 'stir the pot'. You are the go to meme poster though. You are good at rummaging the_donald subreddit posts and linking them here.
Sure, we do. And he didn't do anything illegal. But just as ill-informed Trump voters have overblown the Benghazi and email incidents, Clinton voters and independents who don't know the specifics about business-related tax returns are going to think he's "bad" because he didn't pay any taxes- especially when the majority of people who are going to vote pay taxes. Public perception. Donald Trump gets to feel what it's like when you're blamed for something that wasn't your fault.
The mainstream media continues to act like this is a one way street. When Donald Trump does or says anything, it becomes the most covered story of the day. Conversely, when Hillary is exposed in another leak, hack, or lie, the media tries desperately to bring Trump back into this conversation to protect their candidate. This story is no different. If these liberals are arguing Trump is a fraud, then the same theory applies to the New York Times.
Even if this is true, the New York Times isn't campaigning on narrative that the 'job creators' are loosing all their money to taxes thus cannot create new jobs. When the multi-billionaire presidential candidate is asserting this narrative and doesn't pay taxes, rational people are going to entirely dismiss said narrative and think that said multi-billionaire is a douche. Do you understand this very simple concept?
This is none story and you know it but the Hillary campaign needs further their narrative so they have NYT who donated to Clinton foundation to create a hit piece. Never broke the law. He used to law to his advantage. The man is genuine
He didn't pay taxes because he lost nearly 1 billion dollars. Tell me in what universe is loosing a billion dollars smart? Look. It's very simple. Normal rational people can figure it out for themselves. If Trump was like EVERY OTHER candidate in the past half a century, we wouldn't need NYT to show how he lost 1 billion and therefore didn't need to pay taxes the next consecutive years. Normal rational humans can put 2+2 together and understand how asinine it is that a self professed mulit-billionaire b****ing about how the top 1% has an imposing tax burden to the point they can't hire new employees when said multi-billionaire has an effective tax rate of a toddler. We don't need NYT to show how much of a douche Trump is.
The man had a huge loss but also made a huge comeback from the 90's. He's a true businessman. We need these kinds of minds to run the country.
'Yuge comback' huh? Could that be contributed to his father who was worth 300 mil passing away? Where did that 300 mil go?
Also I'm trying to see how this is news since we all already knew Trump lost huge sum of money in the 90's
Oh, we already know Trump is a giant scumbag who has avoided taxes and has made horrible business decisions to the point where his bank lenders have to baby sit his expenses. Unfortunately many other Americans don't. It would be nice and easy if Trump just released all his returns like a normal presidential candidate.
Perception is what always count, unfortunately. I personally don't see anything wrong with him paying no taxes if indeed that massive lost is a real business loss and not him gaming the system. It just mean he was unlucky or a very lousy businessman. However, if he's taking advantage of loopholes, it may be legal, but in my book, it's still tax evasion and is unethical. We can only know this if we have the full tax return. He should release the last 20-30 years of tax returns - but of course that won't happen so we are left to guess still... And based on what he had said in the past, his refusal to release his returns and him never, AFAIK, made any statement about closing tax loopholes, it's reasonable to guess that he gamed the system to pay no taxes and will continue to do so.
