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46547. arkymalarky - 10/2/2016 2:09:46 AM I was thinking we might get Pepe's take on all this, but apparently not. 46548. arkymalarky - 10/2/2016 3:02:20 PM It's gonna rain hard on trump today. 46549. judithathome - 10/2/2016 7:40:32 PM Pepe the Frog?? I thought he was in the tank for Trump...;-) 46550. judithathome - 10/2/2016 7:48:59 PM Here's the Article About Trump Not Paying Taxes...No Wonder He Won't Let Us see His Tax Returns Voluntarily!
Donald J. Trump declared a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax returns, a tax deduction so substantial it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for up to 18 years, records obtained by The New York Times show.
The 1995 tax records, never before disclosed, reveal the extraordinary tax benefits that Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, derived from the financial wreckage he left behind in the early 1990s through mismanagement of three Atlantic City casinos, his ill-fated foray into the airline business and his ill-timed purchase of the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
Tax experts hired by The Times to analyze Mr. Trump’s 1995 records said that tax rules especially advantageous to wealthy filers would have allowed Mr. Trump to use his $916 million loss to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income over an 18-year period.
The $916 million loss certainly could have eliminated any federal income taxes Mr. Trump otherwise would have owed on the $50,000 to $100,000 he was paid for each episode of “The Apprentice,” or the roughly $45 million he was paid between 1995 and 2009 when he was chairman or chief executive of the publicly traded company he created to assume ownership of his troubled Atlantic City casinos. Ordinary investors in the new company, meanwhile, saw the value of their shares plunge to 17 cents from $35.50, while scores of contractors went unpaid for work on Mr. Trump’s casinos and casino bondholders received pennies on the dollar.
“He has a vast benefit from his destruction” in the early 1990s, said one of the experts, Joel Rosenfeld, an assistant professor at New York University’s Schack Institute of Real Estate. Mr. Rosenfeld offered this description of what he would advise a client who came to him with a tax return like Mr. Trump’s: “Do you realize you can create $916 million in income without paying a nickel in taxes?”
Mr. Trump declined to comment on the documents. Instead, the campaign released a statement that neither challenged nor confirmed the $916 million loss.
46551. judithathome - 10/2/2016 7:53:01 PM And his response to this? Poor people get out of paying taxes all the time through loopholes.
Really? Like the loopholes of not having jobs and/or being
poor? Maybe that's why he thinks the minimum wage is too high...he's just trying to save people from higher taxes.... 46552. arkymalarky - 10/2/2016 8:52:36 PM He is. He-she posts here occasionally. 46553. arkymalarky - 10/6/2016 12:14:38 AM Booooo Mark Halperin. I just had to get that out of my system. I'm just change the channel otherwise, but this close to the election I can't seem to manage that. 46554. judithathome - 10/6/2016 12:59:50 AM Mark Halperin
OMG... deliver ME! 46555. judithathome - 10/6/2016 6:33:53 PM Hysterical comment from a Nevadan kindergartener at a school Trump viisted after lecturing the voters on how pronounce their state's name: he walks into the class and you can hear one little girl saying very loudly "See? I TOLD YOU his hair wasn't ORANGE!"
Love it!!! 46556. winstonsmith - 10/8/2016 5:22:53 AM Hopefully, the lewd tape won't quite be enough to get Trump to drop out. Dropping out could possibly end up putting someone more electable on the ballot. 46557. winstonsmith - 10/8/2016 5:28:36 AM Hopefully, the lewd tape won't quite be enough to get Trump to drop out. Dropping out could possibly end up putting someone more electable on the ballot. 46558. judithathome - 10/8/2016 6:52:59 AM Well, after the Vice Presidential debate, everyone was saying how Presidential Pence looked and how much they were looking forward to 2020...Pence's timeline just may move up 4 years. 46559. winstonsmith - 10/8/2016 7:28:16 AM Yikes, I hope not Judith. Some people are talking about how it would be harder because early voting has started but I suppose they could argue that those are votes for Pense. 46560. arkymalarky - 10/8/2016 8:22:03 AM I don't think they can bring Ronald Reagan back and he get elected now. It's too late. I don't think Trump will drop out anyway though because he's mad and he's going to try to tear the whole edifice down on Sunday. You could tell that in his "apology" video that he was doing a Slow Burn. 46561. arkymalarky - 10/8/2016 8:23:08 AM Republicans don't even entertained the possibility of winning the presidency. They just hope that they don't lose the House. They are in full-blown panic mode right now. 46562. arkymalarky - 10/8/2016 8:24:27 AM If they put someone like Pence in, or probably anybody but Trump, his supporters will stay home and the Republicans down ballot will have their asses handed to them Nov 8. 46563. winstonsmith - 10/8/2016 7:53:28 PM Thanks Arky, that all makes sense. I see that more and more Republicans are rescinding their endorsements of Trump and calling for him to step down. Hopefully it will all play out in a way that is maximally damaging to republican down-ballot candidates. We need to at least get the Senate to get good people on the Court. 46564. arkymalarky - 10/8/2016 8:05:04 PM There's a reason Mitch McConnell demanded that Trump give a full clear apology. And he still didn't do it. He might think he did, but he didn't. 46565. Trillium - 10/8/2016 8:08:39 PM "Republican" and "Democrat" are a thing of the past, divisions from a different era. Sort of like the "Whig Party" from the early 1800s -- those party divisions don't exist anymore, for many current voters.
See this article from the Manchester Guardian, June 2016:
"Is Hillary Clinton a Neocon?
At work I am hearing people who assert that they are "lifelong Democrats" who will vote for Trump. At other locations I hear the opposite: "staunch Republicans" who intend to vote for Clinton. 46566. arkymalarky - 10/8/2016 8:24:38 PM The Democratic party is more united than it's ever been in my life time. I frankly don't know how the Republican party is going to regroup itself without the Tea Party and the alt right.
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