Donald
Trump tweeted, “@BarackObama who wants to raise all our taxes, only pays 20.5%
on $790k salary. http://1.usa.gov/HFZJKH
Do as I say not as I do.”
Donald
Trump tweeted, “Facebook billionaire gives up his U.S. citizenship in order to
save taxes. I guess 3.8 billion isn't enough for (cont) http://tl.gd/hdnk92.”
Donald
Trump tweeted, "@conservativeJT: @bluejoni @realDonaldTrump Trump is an
American that will pay more taxes in one year than you pay in your entire life.”
This
was his position until he got caught in the open being a rich tax freeloader.
The
New York Times got hold of Trump’s 1995 tax filings in New York, New Jersey and
Connecticut. He lost $916,000,000. How does losing almost a BILLION dollars in
a good economy in the casino business work out to him being a financial genius?
Well, I have to admit that I’m not sure an amateur could lose that much money
but that would just make him a professional loser.
In
2014 Donald Trump said that he would release his tax returns. Period. The video
of him saying it is available online. http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/09/16/donald-trump-2014-taxes-comment-nr.cnn
Donald
Trump has vacillated for months now about releasing his tax returns. He’s
milking the attention he’s received from the media that he claims is biased. He
received billions in free media coverage during the primaries and is doing so
again during the general election. Does Trump really hate being picked on?
Here’s what he said in his book “The art of the deal.”
“Even
though the publicity was almost entirely negative, there was a great deal of
it, and that drew a tremendous amount of attention to Trump Tower. Almost
immediately we saw an upsurge in the sales of apartments. I’m not saying that’s
a good thing, and in truth it probably says something perverse about the
culture we live in. But I’m a businessman, and I learned a lesson from that
experience: good publicity is preferable to bad, but from a bottom-line
perspective, bad publicity is sometimes better than no publicity at all.
Controversy, in short, sells.” [PP 175-176]
Only
in this case just substitute “supporters” for “the sales of apartments”.
But
Trump is, after all, a braggart. I don’t mean that to be insulting. It’s his
nature it’s what he does. He does it continually. Well, except for when he
takes a breather to insult people. He brags about whatever he does including
his failures and even if it’s a complete fabrication. When he does fess up, and
that isn’t often, he will immediately blame someone else like the whole birther
movement. I mean he was Captain of the Birthers. Make that Emperor. (Being a
Captain is beneath him like joining the military when he had the chance.)
However,
it should be troubling even for Donald Trump supporters that he’s gaming the
system and won’t release his tax returns. Trump often places himself above the
law. He’s different than the rest of us. He has over 3,400 lawsuits to prove
it. He’s lost or settled about a third as best I can determine. He has paid
millions settling out of court to keep from going to trial and being found
guilty.
Now
I understand that it isn’t the law and there isn’t any rule making it mandatory
that candidates release their tax returns. But he is the first candidate in 40
years that hasn’t released his in a timely fashion, with the exception of
Richard Nixon. Nixon didn’t release his until after he was elected and ended up
owing almost a half million in taxes. If I remember correctly that was almost
half his net worth. That’s reason enough to want to see a candidate’s tax
returns
You
would think that he would revel in rubbing people’s nose in his vast wealth.
He’s so rich that he was going to self-fund his campaign except he couldn’t.
He’s so rich that he can owe hundreds of millions to bankers. He’s so rich that
he doesn’t need government subsidies except he did. He’s so rich that he has
given millions to charities but his Trump Foundation has been funded with other
people’s money for the last few years. Now we discover that his foundation
hasn’t been operating legally.
He
says that his lawyers and accountants advised him not to release them. Were the
other candidates advised by their lawyers not to release theirs? Doesn’t
matter. They released them anyway. At this point everyone, including Trump
supporters, should understand that he has zero legitimate reasons for refusing
to release his tax return unless he’s gaming our system of government yet again.
My
favorite excuse of his is when asked to release his tax returns Trump says that
he will when Hillary turns over 33,000 DELETED emails. Does he understand what
the word DELETED means? Perhaps he does. It’s the perfect excuse for never
releasing his tax returns.
Here’s
the deal. Hillary Rodham Clinton has been investigated and been found NOT
GUILTY. To expand that: in over 2 decades of investigations by those who hate
the ground she walks on, they have never been able to find her guilty. The HRC
haters heading the 8 Republican committees that investigated her could not find
her guilty of committing any chargeable offense. Also, she has released her tax
returns.
His
son maintains that if his dad releases his tax returns he’ll lose votes. He
should know.