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« Reply #250 on: August 18, 2016, 06:53:31 pm »



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« Reply #251 on: August 18, 2016, 08:17:17 pm »

Yup...looks like John Key will be proven correct....again Wink
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« Reply #252 on: August 21, 2016, 07:50:35 pm »

so looks like obama and hillary did arm isis


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« Reply #253 on: August 22, 2016, 07:11:26 am »

Under the Democrats, America is in steady decline as a superpower...Russia and China are happy to take up the slack, the beginning of the decline of individual freedom....but don't worry....it wil be the following generations who will pay for the mistakes Tongue
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« Reply #254 on: August 22, 2016, 08:20:51 am »

Under the Democrats, America is in steady decline as a superpower...Russia and China are happy to take up the slack, the beginning of the decline of individual freedom....but don't worry....it wil be the following generations who will pay for the mistakes Tongue


clint eastwood my arse.

And your previous nickname, reality, is no good, 'cause you clearly lack any sense of reality.

You should go to your profile and change your name to something more appropriate to you, such as idiot or stupid or clown.
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« Reply #255 on: August 22, 2016, 08:37:38 am »

Who the hell is this reality dude you are obsessed with?
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« Reply #256 on: September 06, 2016, 03:49:45 pm »


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« Reply #257 on: September 27, 2016, 06:34:34 pm »


SO STRONG
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« Reply #258 on: September 30, 2016, 06:26:08 pm »

POLLS: TRUMP WON FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE – HANDS DOWN!
The American people have spoken

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« Reply #259 on: October 01, 2016, 12:48:49 am »



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« Reply #260 on: October 01, 2016, 12:59:42 pm »

POLLS: TRUMP WON FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE – HANDS DOWN!
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Hahaha....infowars.com?

Seriously??

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« Reply #261 on: October 01, 2016, 03:23:44 pm »

another good news site for you to whine about ktj

http://www.drudgereport.com/

wow there's a few mainstream news sites there telling us lying hillary has a bit of a problem























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« Reply #262 on: October 03, 2016, 11:21:09 pm »


from The New York Times....

Donald Trump Tax Records Show He Could Have Avoided
Taxes for Nearly Two Decades, The Times Found


By DAVID BARSTOW, SUSANNE CRAIG, RUSS BUETTNER and MEGAN TWOHEY | Saturday, October 01, 2016

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.


A line from one of Mr. Trump's 1995 tax returns obtained by The New York Times.
A line from one of Mr. Trump's 1995 tax returns obtained by The New York Times.

Although Mr. Trump's taxable income in subsequent years is as yet unknown, a $916 million loss in 1995 would have been large enough to wipe out more than $50 million a year in taxable income over 18 years.

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.

“Mr. Trump is a highly-skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required,” the statement said. “That being said, Mr. Trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes.”

The statement continued, “Mr. Trump knows the tax code far better than anyone who has ever run for President and he is the only one that knows how to fix it.”


Donald Trump's Letter

Separately, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, Marc E. Kasowitz, emailed a letter to The Times arguing that publication of the records is illegal because Mr. Trump has not authorized the disclosure of any of his tax returns. Mr. Kasowitz threatened “prompt initiation of appropriate legal action.”

Mr. Trump's refusal to make his tax returns public — breaking with decades of tradition in presidential contests — has emerged as a central issue in the campaign, with a majority of voters saying he should release them. Mr. Trump has declined to do so, and has said he is being audited by the Internal Revenue Service.

At last Monday's presidential debate, when Hillary Clinton suggested Mr. Trump was refusing to release his tax returns so voters would not know “he's paid nothing in federal taxes,” and when she also pointed out that Mr. Trump had once revealed to casino regulators that he paid no federal income taxes in the late 1970s, Mr. Trump retorted, “That makes me smart.”

The tax experts consulted by The Times said nothing in the 1995 documents suggested any wrongdoing by Mr. Trump, even if the extraordinary size of the loss he declared would have probably attracted extra scrutiny from I.R.S. examiners. “The I.R.S., when they see a negative $916 million, that has to pop out,” Mr. Rosenfeld said.

The documents examined by The Times represent a small fraction of the voluminous tax returns Mr. Trump would have filed in 1995.


Pages From Donald Trump's 1995 Income Tax Records

The documents consisted of three pages from what appeared to be Mr. Trump’s 1995 tax returns. The pages were mailed last month to Susanne Craig, a reporter at The Times who has written about Mr. Trump's finances. The documents were the first page of a New York State resident income tax return, the first page of a New Jersey non-resident tax return and the first page of a Connecticut non-resident tax return. Each page bore the names and Social Security numbers of Mr. Trump and Marla Maples, his wife at the time. Only the New Jersey form had what appeared to be their signatures.

The three documents arrived by mail at The Times with a postmark indicating they had been sent from New York City. The return address claimed the envelope had been sent from Trump Tower.

On Wednesday, The Times presented the tax documents to Jack Mitnick, a lawyer and certified public accountant who handled Mr. Trump's tax matters for more than 30 years, until 1996. Mr. Mitnick was listed as the preparer on the New Jersey tax form.

Mr. Mitnick, 80, now semi-retired and living in Florida, said that while he no longer had access to Mr. Trump's original returns, the documents appeared to be authentic copies of portions of Mr. Trump's 1995 tax returns. Mr. Mitnick said the signature on the tax preparer line of the New Jersey tax form was his, and he readily explained an obvious anomaly in the way especially large numbers appeared on the New York tax document.

A flaw in the tax software program he used at the time prevented him from being able to print a nine-figure loss on Mr. Trump's New York return, he said. So, for example, the loss of “-915,729,293” on Line 18 of the return printed out as “5,729,293.” As a result, Mr. Mitnick recalled, he had to use his typewriter to manually add the “-91,” thus explaining why the first two digits appeared to be in a different font and were slightly misaligned from the following seven digits.

“This is legit,” he said, stabbing a finger into the document.

Because the documents sent to The Times did not include any pages from Mr. Trump's 1995 federal tax return, it is impossible to determine how much he may have donated to charity that year. The state documents do show, though, that Mr. Trump declined the opportunity to contribute to the New Jersey Vietnam Veterans' Memorial Fund, the New Jersey Wildlife Conservation Fund or the Children's Trust Fund. He also declined to contribute $1 toward public financing of New Jersey's elections for governor.

The tax documents also do not shed any light on Mr. Trump's claimed net worth of about $2 billion at that time. This is because the complex calculations of business deductions that produced a tax loss of $916 million are a separate matter from how Mr. Trump valued his assets, the tax experts said.

Nor does the $916 million loss suggest that Mr. Trump was insolvent or effectively bankrupt in 1995. The cash flow generated by his various businesses that year was more than enough to service his various debts.

But fragmentary as they are, the documents nonetheless provide new insight into Mr. Trump's finances, a subject of intense scrutiny given Mr. Trump's emphasis on his business record during the presidential campaign.

The documents show, for example, that while Mr. Trump reported $7.4 million in interest income in 1995, he made only $6,108 in wages, salaries and tips. They also suggest Mr. Trump took full advantage of generous tax loopholes specifically available to commercial real estate developers to claim a $15.8 million loss in 1995 on his real estate holdings and partnerships.

But the most important revelation from the 1995 tax documents is just how much Mr. Trump may have benefited from a tax provision that is particularly prized by America's dynastic families, which, like the Trumps, hold their wealth inside byzantine networks of partnerships, limited liability companies and S corporations.

The provision, known as net operating loss, or N.O.L., allows a dizzying array of deductions, business expenses, real estate depreciation, losses from the sale of business assets and even operating losses to flow from the balance sheets of those partnerships, limited liability companies and S corporations onto the personal tax returns of men like Mr. Trump. In turn, those losses can be used to cancel out an equivalent amount of taxable income from, say, book royalties or branding deals.


Mr. Trump bought the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan in 1988. — Photograph: Marty Lederhandler/Associated Press.
Mr. Trump bought the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan in 1988. — Photograph: Marty Lederhandler/Associated Press.

Better still, if the losses are big enough, they can cancel out taxable income earned in other years. Under I.R.S. rules in 1995, net operating losses could be used to wipe out taxable income earned in the three years before and the 15 years after the loss. (The effect of net operating losses on state income taxes varies, depending on each state's tax regime.)

The tax experts consulted by The Times said the $916 million net operating loss declared by Mr. Trump in 1995 almost certainly included large net operating losses carried forward from the early 1990s, when most of Mr. Trump's key holdings were hemorrhaging money. Indeed, by 1990, his entire business empire was on the verge of collapse. In a few short years, he had amassed $3.4 billion in debt — personally guaranteeing $832 million of it — to assemble a portfolio that included three casinos and a hotel in Atlantic City, the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan, an airline and a huge yacht.

Reports that year by New Jersey casino regulators gave glimpses of the balance sheet carnage. The Trump Taj Mahal casino reported a $25.5 million net loss during its first six months of 1990; the Trump's Castle casino lost $43.5 million for the year. His airline, Trump Shuttle, lost $34.5 million during just the first six months of that year.

“Simply put, the organization is in dire financial straits,” the casino regulators concluded.


Reports published by New Jersey regulators in 1993, top, and 1995, above, highlighted the effects of Mr. Trump's net operating losses.
Reports published by New Jersey regulators in 1993, top, and 1995, above, highlighted the effects of Mr. Trump's
net operating losses.


Reports by New Jersey's casino regulators strongly suggested that Mr. Trump had claimed large net operating losses on his taxes in the early 1990s. Their reports, for example, revealed that Mr. Trump had carried forward net operating losses in both 1991 and 1993. What's more, the reports said the losses he claimed were large enough to virtually cancel out any taxes he might owe on the millions of dollars of debt that was being forgiven by his creditors. (The I.R.S. considers forgiven debt to be taxable income.)

But crucially, the casino regulators redacted the precise size of the net operating losses in the public versions of their reports. Two former New Jersey officials, who were privy to the unredacted documents, could not recall the precise size of the numbers, but said they were substantial.

Politico, which previously reported that Mr. Trump most likely paid no income taxes in 1991 and 1993 based on the casino commission's description of his net operating losses, asked Mr. Trump to comment. “Welcome to the real estate business,” he replied in an email.

Now, thanks to Mr. Trump's 1995 tax records, the degree to which he spun all those years of red ink into tax write-off gold may finally be apparent.

Mr. Mitnick, the lawyer and accountant, was the person Mr. Trump leaned on most to do the spinning. Mr. Mitnick worked for a small Long Island accounting firm that specialized in handling tax issues for wealthy New York real estate families. He had long handled tax matters for Mr. Trump's father, Fred C. Trump, and he said he began doing Donald Trump's taxes after Mr. Trump turned 18.

In an interview on Wednesday, Mr. Mitnick said he could not divulge details of Mr. Trump's finances without Mr. Trump's consent. But he did talk about Mr. Trump's approaches to taxes, and he contrasted Fred Trump's attention to detail with what he described as Mr. Trump's brash and undisciplined style. He recalled, for example, that when Donald and Ivana Trump came in each year to sign their tax forms, it was almost always Ivana who asked more questions.


The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, one of the failed casino properties in Atlantic City that had been owned by Mr. Trump. — Photograph: Douglas Graham/Congressional Quarterly via Getty Images.
The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, one of the failed casino properties in Atlantic City that had been owned
by Mr. Trump. — Photograph: Douglas Graham/Congressional Quarterly via Getty Images.


But if Mr. Trump lacked a sophisticated understanding of the tax code, and if he rarely showed any interest in the details behind various tax strategies, Mr. Mitnick said he clearly grasped the critical role taxes would play in helping him build wealth. “He knew we could use the tax code to protect him,” Mr. Mitnick said.

According to Mr. Mitnick, Mr. Trump's use of net operating losses was no different from that of his other wealthy clients. “This may have had a couple extra digits compared to someone else's operation, but they all benefited in the same way,” he said, pointing to the $916 million loss on Mr. Trump's tax returns.

In “The Art of the Deal”, his 1987 best-selling book, Mr. Trump referred to Mr. Mitnick as “my accountant” — although he misspelled his name. Mr. Trump described consulting with Mr. Mitnick on the tax implications of deals he was contemplating and seeking his advice on how new federal tax regulations might affect real estate write-offs.

Mr. Mitnick, though, said there were times when even he, for all his years helping wealthy New Yorkers navigate the tax code, found it difficult to face the incongruity of his work for Mr. Trump. He felt keenly aware that Mr. Trump was living a life of unimaginable luxury thanks in part to Mr. Mitnick's ability to relieve him of the burden of paying taxes like everyone else.

“Here the guy was building incredible net worth and not paying tax on it,” he said.


Steve Eder and Patricia Cohen contributed reporting. Kitty Bennett contributed research.

• A version of this article appears in print on October 2nd, 2016, on page A1 of the New York edition with the headline: “Trump's 1995 Tax Records Claim $916 Million Loss”.

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Read more on this topic:

 • A Trump Empire Built on Inside Connections and $885 Million in Tax Breaks

 • Trump Casinos' Tax Debt Was $30 Million. Then Christie Took Office.

 • Donald Trump's Deals Rely on Being Creative With the Truth

 • Why We Ask to See Candidates' Tax Returns


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from The New York Times....

The Time I Found Donald Trump's Tax Records in My Mailbox

By SUSANNE CRAIG | Sunday, October 02, 2016

In this article, Susanne Craig, a New York Times Metro reporter who covers
government and politics, reveals one of the lesser-known benefits of “snail mail”
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Susanne Craig's mailbox at The New York Times.
Susanne Craig's mailbox at The New York Times.

MY COLLEAGUES make fun of my old-fashioned devotion to my mailbox.

It's about 30 feet from my desk — among all the other third-floor employees' mailboxes — and I check it constantly, always hoping a tipster will have sent me some revealing letter or secret document.

In Metro, we get a lot of junk mail and are regularly flooded with correspondence from prisoners in New York's penitentiaries.

But Friday, September 23rd, was different.

I walked to my mailbox and spotted a manila envelope, postmarked New York, NY, with a return address of The Trump Organization. My heart skipped a beat.

I have been on the hunt for Donald J. Trump's tax returns. Mr. Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, has broken with decades-long tradition and refused to make his returns public. I have written extensively about his finances, but like almost every other reporter, I was eager to see his actual returns.

The envelope looked legitimate. I opened it, anxiously, and was astonished.

Inside were what appeared to be pages from Mr. Trump's 1995 tax records, containing detailed figures that revealed his tax strategies. Almost immediately, I walked over to the desk of David Barstow — a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and my teammate in the quest for Mr. Trump's tax returns.

He was on the phone. I waved the tax documents in front of him. He abruptly ended the call with whomever he was talking to.

We cleared out the investigations team conference room and, with our colleagues Megan Twohey and Russ Buettner, started drawing up a battle plan.

We obsessed over the documents, the envelope, the postmark, the date on the postmark — everything. We even checked every other mailbox on the third floor — and there are hundreds of them — in case the tipster had mailed additional documents to any other reporter.

We then came up with a list of people who could confirm the veracity of the tax records. The list was short.

Next, we set out to develop a portrait of Mr. Trump's finances from the period in question, to see if we could support what the documents showed — that he had taken a huge loss in 1995 that could have allowed him to avoid paying federal income taxes for nearly two decades.

We were skeptical as we examined the tax records, though much of the information looked accurate. They were signed by Mr. Trump's wife at the time, Marla Maples, and by Mr. Trump, whose recognizable handwriting renders his signature in jagged, oversize letters. Other details matched up.

But, of course, we needed a lot more before we could publish an article.

We were initially thrown off by a quirk in the records noticed by Megan: On the line on which Mr. Trump had reported his huge loss — of $915,729,293 — the first two digits did not line up with the next seven. Could the document have been doctored?

We hired tax experts to guide us through the math. We researched the 1995 tax code. We reached out to anyone who might have viewed Mr. Trump's records during that period.

But the breakthrough came when David traveled to Florida and tracked down Jack Mitnick, the semi-retired accountant who had prepared and signed Mr. Trump's tax returns.

Mr. Mitnick was initially reluctant to talk, but he eventually agreed to meet David in a bagel shop.

In a conversation there, Mr. Mitnick not only said the records appeared to be authentic; he also solved the mystery of the digits that did not line up. It turned out that the tax preparation software he had used did not allow him to enter a loss of nine figures. So, he recalled, he had to manually enter the first two digits, using an IBM Selectric typewriter.

We did more reporting that broadened our picture of Mr. Trump's finances at the time, and reached out to additional sources. By Saturday — eight days after I had first opened the envelope — we were ready to go to the Trump campaign with our findings. Mr. Trump, through his spokeswoman, did not challenge or confirm the tax records, but he threatened us with legal action if we were to publish them.

We felt confident that our reporting was correct. On Saturday night, around 9:10, we were all in the newsroom when our article was posted on nytimes.com. It instantly drew a flood of readers. People were fascinated not only by the story, but also with how we had gotten it. Why did the tipster send the documents to me, of all the reporters out there? Probably because I wrote an exhaustive examination of Mr. Trump's $650 million of debt in August that drew millions of readers.

The whole experience has left me eager to share a bit of advice with my fellow reporters: Check your mailboxes. Especially nowadays, when people are worried that anything sent by email will leave forensic fingerprints, “snail mail” is a great way to communicate with us anonymously.

And a note to tipsters out there: If you want to send me anything, on any subject, my mailbox is open. The address is 620 Eighth Avenue, Third Floor, New York, NY 10018.

You can bet I will be checking it.


• A version of this article appears in print on October 3rd, 2016, on page A16 of the New York edition with the headline: “The Time I Peeked in My Mailbox and Found Trump's Tax Records”.

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Donald Trump's massively epic meltdown
shouldn't really surprise anyone


By CHRIS CILLIZZA | 11:57AM EDT - Sunday, October 02, 2016

Donald Trump speaks at the Spooky Nook sports center in Manheim, Pennsylvania on Saturday night, October 01, 2016. — Photograph: Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images.
Donald Trump speaks at the Spooky Nook sports center in Manheim, Pennsylvania on Saturday night, October 01, 2016.
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ONE OF the long-running story lines of the Republican presidential primary season was this: What would Donald Trump do if ever his beloved polls turned against him? If he was no longer winning, how would he act? Whom would he blame?

Lucky for Trump, there was almost never a moment during his run to the Republican nomination in which he trailed, so those questions never really got answered. There was one instance, however, when Ben Carson briefly passed Trump in Iowa over last fall, and we got a glimpse of an embattled Trump who wasn't terribly appealing — as a candidate or a person.

In a rambling 95-minute speech in Fort Dodge, Iowa, in November, Trump lashed out at, well, everyone. “How stupid are the people of Iowa? How stupid are the people of the country to believe this crap,” he asked the crowd in reference to Carson's story about an apparent stabbing incident in his younger years. Trump referred to rival Carly Fiorina as “Carly whatever-the-hell-her-name-is.” He famously/infamously declared, “I know more about ISIS [the Islamic State militant group] than the generals do.” And on and on.

Well, that Trump — angry, petulant, petty — returned on Saturday night in a campaign appearance in Manheim, Pennsylvania.

Like in November in Iowa, Trump found himself backed into a corner — a poor showing in the first presidential debate was made worse by his inexplicable, multi-day attacks on former Miss Universe Alicia Machado and punctuated by a devastating New York Times story about his taxes.

And, like in November, Trump came unglued.

The Washington Post's Jenna Johnson was there, and her report on the Trump speech is, frankly, stunning stuff. I could excerpt the whole story, but here's just one example of Trump's tirade:

It took Trump nearly 25 minutes to read the brief statement because he kept going off on one angry tangent after another — ignoring his teleprompters and accusing Clinton of not being “loyal” to her husband, imitating her buckling at a memorial service last month, suggesting that she is “crazy” and saying she should be in prison. He urged his mostly white crowd of supporters to go to polling places in “certain areas” on Election Day to “watch” the voters there. He also repeatedly complained about having a “bum mic” at the first presidential debate and wondered if he should have done another season of “The Apprentice”.

This video, of Trump imitating Clinton's near-collapse at a September 11th memorial service last month, has to be seen to be believed.

The Trump in that video is the exact opposite of presidential. The word that kept coming to my mind when I watched it was “nasty”. He seems mean, angry, vindictive. None of those words tend to be what people use to describe presidents.

Simply put: If you had questions before Saturday night about whether Trump had the proper temperament to hold the job he is seeking, it's hard to imagine that you don't have serious doubts today.

True character tends to be revealed when times are tough. Anyone can be magnanimous, happy and generous after a win. It's a hell of a lot harder to maintain that dignity and charitableness after a defeat.

Trump has shown throughout this campaign that he runs well while ahead. His chiding of his opponents, his dismissiveness of the political press — it all plays great when he is on top of the political world.

But, last night in Manheim, he showed what we got glimpses of almost a year ago in Iowa: When he's down, Trump is like a cornered animal. He lashes out — at everyone. That is when he's at his most dangerous — to his own prospects and those of the party he is leading.


• Chris Cillizza writes The Fix, a politics blog for The Washington Post. He also covers the White House.

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 • PHOTOGRAPH GALLERY: What Donald Trump is doing on the campaign trail


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« Reply #265 on: October 04, 2016, 12:03:40 am »

i hear all the women bill Clinton has either raped or sexually molested are coming out in droves to accuse bill.
also i hear Wikileaks are about to unload all Clinton's emails she thought she got rid of and she might end up jailed lol

about not paying tax for 2 decades i am sure he has not broken any laws and just doing what anyone in business would do unlike the Clintons

 October 2, 2016
Trump, Taxes and the Times

By Jack Hellner
See also: New York Times violates law to publish partial Trump tax return from 90s and speculate about his taxes


The New York Times put out a hit piece on Donald Trump saying that he took a $900 billion-plus business loss in 1995 that allowed him to pay no income taxes for years. If it was a legitimate loss that is what he is supposed to do. Trump and his businesses pay property taxes, payroll taxes, sales taxes, motor fuel taxes and all the other taxes and fees the government entities charge. Therefore, it is either pure ignorance or intentional lies for Hillary and others to say he pays no taxes to support schools, the police, the roads and all other government functions. Why doesn't the media fact check that lie instead of repeating it?

Amazon, which is led Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, lost $1.41 Billion in 2000 and that offset their minimal income for years. Would Hillary and the NYT say Bezos paid no taxes and did not support government activities?

Solar City and Tesla, which are owned by one of the heroes of the left Elon Musk, have never made a profit and therefore never paid income taxes and they are also heavily subsidized by the taxpayer. Where are the media stories ripping Musk for not supporting the government?

If anyone wants to look at pure abuse of the income tax system they should look at what President Obama did for GM in 2009. We not only bailed out GM to the tune of $50 Billion, Obama gave GM an exemption from income taxes on their next $45 billion of income for up to twenty years. Why doesn't Hillary bring that one up as she campaigns in states with auto facilities?

The New York Times has had some financially troublesome years. Do they voluntarily pay income taxes when they lose money or do they carry back and carry forward the losses? That is all Trump did and it is pathetic that the Times would do a hit piece on what is and what should be a legal practice.

Can the New York Times find any company or individual that had a loss that didn't use the loss to offset income taxes for years? What about Buffet when he was a major shareholder of US Air?  I bet they can't find any.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/10/trump_taxes_and_the_emtimesem.html

Breaking: Washington Post CEO paid no taxes under the same deal Trump did, media covering it up
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Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Washington Post, has some “splainin to do” according to documents showing that he paid 0 in taxes. Does this make the WaPo a government funded entity?
 
 
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Amazon, which is led Jeff Bezos, who also owns the Washington Post, lost $1.41 Billion in 2000 and that offset their minimal income for years. Would Hillary and the NYT say Bezos paid no taxes and did not support government activities?
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The sinking Post, which employs Click-Bait headlines to get people reading their anti-Trump screeds, have also been critical of the owners of Prntly, calling us “Pro-Trump clickbait.”
Sadly, they can’t see the forest for the trees.
 
The Post was slammed by a tax blog in December:
For example, it’s well documented that Amazon’s growth as a retail giant was fueled by the company’s ability to avoid collecting sales taxes on its retail sales. Not collecting sales tax gave the company an immediate advantage over its brick-and-mortar competitors. For years, the company fought tooth and nailagainst sensible legislative efforts to put the company on a level playing field with mom and pop retailers. Yet, thanks to hard fought reforms in the states, this will be the first holiday season when Amazon will be collecting sales taxes in a majority of states.
 
Tax Justice Blog

http://prntly.com/2016/10/02/breaking-washington-post-ceo-paid-no-taxes-under-the-same-deal-trump-did-media-covering-it-up/

Larry Kudlow on Trump's Tax Plan: Middle-Income Americans Will Benefit Most

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« Reply #266 on: October 04, 2016, 06:46:52 am »

Larry Kudlow on Trump's Tax Plan: Middle-Income Americans Will Benefit Most







Trump's pockets will be what will benefit from Trump's tax plans.

All those stupid suckers who support him would suddenly find out how STUPID and GULLIBLE they had been.

Hilarious, when you think about it!
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Obama care tax plan

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ktj do you pay more tax than the law demands ?

are your donations to the workers party taxdeductible 
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Donald Trump = LOSER!!


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