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NYT has succeeded in producing an effective Trump hit piece with mostly meaningless information that's emotionally charged and can be interpreted in multiple ways. The hit is the supposedly-accurate disclosure of the amount on line 56 of his 1040s, which is the federal income tax after credits. It does NOT include any estimated payments. Without disclosing what the credits are and what's behind them, this line 56 number has no meaning. Without knowing the interactions of his corporations with his personal income, it has no meaning. He could have chosen, for instance, to keep most of the money in the corporations and pay himself the right amount to keep his personal tax liability at zero or $750 (depending on the year). Anybody who runs businesses can legally do this. In fact, I've read that Joe Biden has been keeping some of his money in S corporations.

The real question should be if he did anything unethical or illegal. Are the democrats or NYT asking this? Not that I've seen. If what he has done is legal, and the democrats don't like it, they should be working to change the tax code, not destroying somebody who is following it.
 
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tigerwillow1 said:
NYT has succeeded in producing an effective Trump hit piece with mostly meaningless information that's emotionally charged and can be interpreted in multiple ways. The hit is the supposedly-accurate disclosure of the amount on line 56 of his 1040s, which is the federal income tax after credits. It does NOT include any estimated payments. Without disclosing what the credits are and what's behind them, this line 56 number has no meaning. Without knowing the interactions of his corporations with his personal income, it has no meaning. He could have chosen, for instance, to keep most of the money in the corporations and pay himself the right amount to keep his personal tax liability at zero or $750 (depending on the year). Anybody who runs businesses can legally do this. In fact, I've read that Joe Biden has been keeping some of his money in S corporations.

The real question should be if he did anything unethical or illegal. Are the democrats or NYT asking this? Not that I've seen. If what he has done is legal, and the democrats don't like it, they should be working to change the tax code, not destroying somebody who is following it.
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That is exactly right. Good post. :)
 
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I wonder what the conspiracy theorists, right wing whackos and the various white supremacist groups will be saying after the bigot in chief gets trounced in the election.
 
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ctgoldwing said:
I wonder what the conspiracy theorists, right wing whackos and the various white supremacist groups will be saying after the bigot in chief gets trounced in the election.
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You're not worth anyone's time.
 
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ctgoldwing said:
I wonder what the conspiracy theorists, right wing whackos and the various white supremacist groups will be saying after the bigot in chief gets trounced in the election.
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No idea, why don’t you ask them?

In the meantime, can you offer one ounce of fact to your claim he’s a bigot? You don’t seem good at facts
 
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I'm a cheap drunk. I wouldn't make it past the first sentence from either one of them :rofl:
 
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