Dunban67 said:
unfortunately Trump over estimated the intelligence of some of the electorate by saying he was smart to not pay federal taxes- He should have added that virtually no pays taxes they don t owe and wealthy people/companies use people called accountants and tax attorneys to use the massive tax code to their best advantage- he was not accused of failing to pay federal yaxes he owed- thus he is "smart" to opperate his business and invstments for min tax exposure like everyone else- he just happens to be better at it than most
the debate was watched by 80 million+- people apparently 1/3 of voters are undecided (how i will never know) but The electorate does need to hear from Hillary on those issues- Trump addressed his previously too- double standard much? She created real issues of national security that may yet harm our country further- There is much more for her to answer about the Clinton Foundation too- As Mrs William Jefferson Clinton she should answer the many many questions about it like pay for play and why they have accepted tens of miliions of dollars from countries like Saudi Arabia and other middle eastern countries whose legal system/theocracy's treat women as property of their husbands and whose human rights records toward women and gays are atrocious- then there is China - given the Clinton foundation millions- terrible human rights record- Don t be so dismisive of very real issues-
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Actually that would not be a good answer in my opinion. During the primaries, Trump touted getting rid of loopholes that allow Fund Managers to make millions and pay less tax then someone on welfare. Saying that you took every possible angle to pay no taxes and not give back in some way would actually sound just as bad. Instead his best answer would be that he did take every advantage, that he knows how the system award the rich and that as president plans to remove those loopholes so that no matter what your status is you pay your fair share of taxes like the rest of us. This would have gotten him some applause because then even if his taxes show he paid nothing, he has come out and stated he will change this type of loopholes for the rich.
One of Trumps biggest problems is that he doesn't pay any taxes and from what we have found out about his Trump Foundation he doesn't give any money back from his own coffers to charity. This looks bad because it has the appears that he only takes and never gives back what he has earned to support anything unless it advances his personal interest.
As for the emails, every person in government make mistakes including just the regular people. The past is the past and the question is has the person learned from that mistake. It seems Hillary turned a corner last night. Stop giving excuses, stop blaming other people about your decisions, own up to it, take responsibility and move on. If she had done this a long time ago, we would not be still arguing the issue. Yes, having the private server was a security risk but let’s be honest, since a crap load of politician do the same are you condemning them as well.
As for the Clinton Foundation, yes there is definitely some pay to play areas that I believe will be brought up within the next 2 debates but then again Trump Foundation also has some pay to play going on as well so it should be interesting to delve into both those conflict of interest. I am really interested in hearing how Hillary and Trump will remove any and all family from those interest including Trump Organization. Trump has said that he will put Trump organization in a blind trust but it cannot be a blind trust if his son and daughter is running the business. The same thing for the Clinton Foundation. Hillary daughter cannot run the foundation if her mom is president even though they have stated they will not accept any foreign donations. As we know, those foreign donations can just be funneled through other means like the Uranium situation.