Trump and taxation

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  1. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    From NBC-news here: Trump lashes out at New York Times report alleging years of tax avoidance

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    We shall see. We shall see ...
     
  2. HB Surfer

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    How would the NY Times have Trump's private tax information?
     
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    Sleep Monster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That's a good question. You should copy it and past it into google, see what comes up, and report back here. Please?
     
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    Sleep Monster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Trump seldom repays anyone. His usual MO is to tie it up in multiple court filings until creditors become crazed enough to settle for pennies on the dollar. I wonder if he'll try that with the IRS? It should be interesting ...

    :popcorn:
     
  6. mdrobster

    mdrobster Well-Known Member

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    Looks like that is about to change. He may have been able to finagle his way in the past, but his finances have caught up with him.
     
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    Who cares?
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Because it's against the law... you know THE LAW.

    How do you Leftists think this type of tyranny and Abuse of Power and violation of is cool? This is using governmental power to attack political opponents... that's tyranny and many of you seem to not care or support it.
     
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  9. ChiCowboy

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    Are you claiming only Democrats leak to the press? I recall lots of leaks coming from the Trump administration.

    Is there a law against leaking tax information?
     
  10. The Mello Guy

    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    Having his taxes isn’t against the law.
     
  11. Sleep Monster

    Sleep Monster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Perhaps.

    Running for office was the dumbest move Trump ever made. For decades, he skated away from the worst consequences of his natural propensity for cheating. He had never before paid any consequence (other than a few out-of-court settlements) or been held accountable for his actions. But his ego wanted the biggest claim to fame he could manage, and now there's a bright spotlight on everything he does or has done.

    Since the GOP is too cowardly and honorless to hold him accountable for his public bad acts, one can only hope that he'll at least get bitten on his financial misbehavior. I would bet money he won't do any time behind bars, though, regardless of how many years you or I would spend in lockup if we did even a fraction of what Trump has done.
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Leaking his taxes is against the law. Please try to follow along. What other public figures has this ever happened to?

    You on the Left are so welcoming of Authoritarian, Fascist, and Tyrannical tactics.... it's pretty sick.
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yes. Tax information is private for tons of reasons. How do you on the Left not know this, get this, and think this is not wrong?
     
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  15. LafayetteBis

    LafayetteBis Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Two liner nonsense.

    Give concrete examples of what you mean, because the above is a mixture of everything politic in the US.

    Give me ONE EXAMPLE of what you think is Abuse of Power ... !
     
  16. The Mello Guy

    The Mello Guy Well-Known Member

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    Depends who did it. Maybe it was one of his many ex wives.
    I don’t remember your outrage when the Dnc emails were hacked and leaked....
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Any government official leaking private tax returns. It's tyranny when done for political reasons.

    Do you get it now?
     
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    HB Surfer Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    There seems to be an ongoing tyrannical theme of Leftists in the IRS and Government leaking private tax information to the Press and Democratic lawmakers. I remember when the IRS leaked private Conservative Group tax returns to Propublica and the Democrats like Elijah Cummings (RIP).

    It's against the law and it keeps happening, but no one ever pays the price.
     
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    Democrats were leaking within different institutions who were hired before the Trump administration was in charge.
     
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    Republicans do the same thing. There's no high ground with regard to press leaks.
     
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    What Democrats had their private taxes leaked to the Press?

    Charlie Rangle? Nope.
    Maxine Waters? Nope.
    Nancy Pelosi? Nope.
    William Jefferson? Nope.
    Bill Clinton or Hillary Clinton? Nope.


    Yet, all of them have had really shady crap going on with their finances.
     
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    So what?

    How many of them had the business entanglements (before being elected) that Trump had?
     
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  23. Darthcervantes

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    We have a new president but 70% of the threads are still about TRUMP.
    Wow, you guys must really love him!
    bottom line, if trump did shady tax stuff, he will get called out on it (and so will every rich powerful liberal politician going forward)
    I say its a win/win
     
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    WTF are you babbling about? Private Citizens that have real jobs do not lose their rights under the law.

    Do you realize how elite Authoritarian your question is?
     
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    We need to stop the millions and millions that scumbags like Nancy Pelosi make on their insider trading too.
     
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