The problem is that people will not read the 34 pages to get that answer. They will read the first 6-8 paragraphs (if that much) where they make their accusations and that is all.
This whole accusation from the New York Times is extremely stupid. The amount of money Trump paid in taxes is irrelevant. Trump did what every person in the United States does at tax time and that's keep his tax bill as low as he is legally allowed to do. I mean, how many people, upon hearing from their tax preparer what their tax bill is say nah, that's not enough, I think I'll pay a little more. I don't, you don't, and neither does Donald Trump. He's been audited by the IRS at least once and they appear to have been satisfied with his returns, ie. he hasn't broken the law, so there's really nothing more to talk about. If people are unhappy with the way our tax laws are structured they need to talk to their congress critters.
He has highly qualified tax lawyers and CPA's prepare his returns EVERY YEAR because he knows that the IRS is and has been looking at people like him since the income tax was passed into law. These people, who work for President Trump, NOT the IRS or the fookin' NYT, are going to ensure that President Trump pays the least legally allowed amount, as is his right. Everyone with more than two brain cells should know this. Yet the NYT, just keeps spreading their lies.
What I'd like to know is how the NYT came by their information. Tax returns are supposed to be SECRET, BY LAW. Why is the person or persons who wrote the article and presumably had acess to the actual documents, not cooling their heels in a jail call. Same old, same old, rules for thee, but not for me.
When Mike Huckabee was the Guv in Arkansas, there was a lot of stink by the Donks in the legislature to raise taxes, so they could piss away even more money than they already were, because, more or less, they thought they could do it. Huckabee walked down the street to a bank and opened an account for the state with his own $100 and held a press conference announcing what he'd done, and that anyone who thought the tax rates were too low was free to send whatever they thought was fair into the bank. The chief rabble-rouser reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette matched it, out of his generosity and sense of civic duty, or something. After a year, Huckabee held another press conference to announce how much money had been sent in to the account. It was something like three hundred bucks total, and that pretty much killed the movement to raise taxes.
The New York Times came by this information because somebody at the IRS committed a felony and supplied them with a private citizens tax return. If the Justice Dept and the IRS aren't looking into this right now then there is no functional system of justice in this country.
My wife is a democrat, albeit a kindly and loving person. She doesn’t understand how or why the Times would tell such lies. Her believing the best in all has served me well(I’m definitely not a prize)but she cant understand the viciousness of todays politics. She looked at me like I was crazy when I told her this comes from marxism. First identify an enemy then rally your followers in an “existential struggle for survival” that can only be obtained by the destruction of the enemy. Then it was proletariat vs. bourgeoisie, today its still a “class struggle” between the progressive and “white extremists”. Conservative doesn’t sound hateful enough, so we have to be extremests.
The problem is that people will not read the 34 pages to get that answer. They will read the first 6-8 paragraphs (if that much) where they make their accusations and that is all.
ReplyDeleteThis whole accusation from the New York Times is extremely stupid. The amount of money Trump paid in taxes is irrelevant. Trump did what every person in the United States does at tax time and that's keep his tax bill as low as he is legally allowed to do. I mean, how many people, upon hearing from their tax preparer what their tax bill is say nah, that's not enough, I think I'll pay a little more. I don't, you don't, and neither does Donald Trump. He's been audited by the IRS at least once and they appear to have been satisfied with his returns, ie. he hasn't broken the law, so there's really nothing more to talk about. If people are unhappy with the way our tax laws are structured they need to talk to their congress critters.
ReplyDeleteHe has highly qualified tax lawyers and CPA's prepare his returns EVERY YEAR because he knows that the IRS is and has been looking at people like him since the income tax was passed into law. These people, who work for President Trump, NOT the IRS or the fookin' NYT, are going to ensure that President Trump pays the least legally allowed amount, as is his right. Everyone with more than two brain cells should know this. Yet the NYT, just keeps spreading their lies.
DeleteWhat I'd like to know is how the NYT came by their information. Tax returns are supposed to be SECRET, BY LAW. Why is the person or persons who wrote the article and presumably had acess to the actual documents, not cooling their heels in a jail call. Same old, same old, rules for thee, but not for me.
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When Mike Huckabee was the Guv in Arkansas, there was a lot of stink by the Donks in the legislature to raise taxes, so they could piss away even more money than they already were, because, more or less, they thought they could do it. Huckabee walked down the street to a bank and opened an account for the state with his own $100 and held a press conference announcing what he'd done, and that anyone who thought the tax rates were too low was free to send whatever they thought was fair into the bank. The chief rabble-rouser reporter at the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette matched it, out of his generosity and sense of civic duty, or something. After a year, Huckabee held another press conference to announce how much money had been sent in to the account. It was something like three hundred bucks total, and that pretty much killed the movement to raise taxes.
DeleteThe New York Times came by this information because somebody at the IRS committed a felony and supplied them with a private citizens tax return. If the Justice Dept and the IRS aren't looking into this right now then there is no functional system of justice in this country.
DeleteThe slime times. Who cares.....
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My wife is a democrat, albeit a kindly and loving person. She doesn’t understand how or why the Times would tell such lies. Her believing the best in all has served me well(I’m definitely not a prize)but she cant understand the viciousness of todays politics. She looked at me like I was crazy when I told her this comes from marxism. First identify an enemy then rally your followers in an “existential struggle for survival” that can only be obtained by the destruction of the enemy. Then it was proletariat vs. bourgeoisie, today its still a “class struggle” between the progressive and “white extremists”. Conservative doesn’t sound hateful enough, so we have to be extremests.
ReplyDeleteExtremists or the other one that gets thrown around if you aren’t antifa or blm, then you are labeled white supremacist.
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