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Locknuts said:
JustcallmeRiff said:

The intellectually honest Trump supporter hates the federal government and wants it destroyed so they're sending a buffoon to do just that. The willfully ignorant Trump supporter believes Trump is going to do something good for America.

I'm the former. How could you support such a bloated, aggressive entity?

Plus I'm not American so I don't really care as much.

Thank you for your honesty. Because I've been watching this attitude Fester for decades from Reagan's scariest words in the English language to Ron Paul warning to shut down government departments like education, transportation, FDA and others to the Tea Party literally shutting the government down by not paying its bills. Trump is the current manifestation of this cancer. I am an American and this shitshow of an election is embarrassing.



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DialgaMarine said:
The fact remains that Trump did NOTHING illegal. He simply capitalized on tax deductions. Anybody who wants to act saintly and pretend they've never done that is either lying through they're teeth or just really really dumb.

For almost 20 years my words have not always verbally supported the military but my tax dollars have always financially supported the military. For almost 20 years Trump has always verbally supported the military but he has never financially supported them. To our servicemen and women deployed around the world, who is more important?



JustcallmeRiff said:
DialgaMarine said:
The fact remains that Trump did NOTHING illegal. He simply capitalized on tax deductions. Anybody who wants to act saintly and pretend they've never done that is either lying through they're teeth or just really really dumb.

For almost 20 years my words have not always verbally supported the military but my tax dollars have always financially supported the military. For almost 20 years Trump has always verbally supported the military but he has never financially supported them. To our servicemen and women deployed around the world, who is more important?

 Well, I mean if you ignore the $5.6 million (vice Clintons 70K over the last several years) Trump recently donated to veterans organizations, then yeah, he's never financially supported the military... Either way, I sincerely believe there's no conceivable way he hasn't paid any taxes in the last 20 years, otherwise he would be behind bars instead of running for president. Trump may be an asshole, but I dont think he's a criminal. 



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DialgaMarine said:
JustcallmeRiff said:

For almost 20 years my words have not always verbally supported the military but my tax dollars have always financially supported the military. For almost 20 years Trump has always verbally supported the military but he has never financially supported them. To our servicemen and women deployed around the world, who is more important?

 Well, I mean if you ignore the $5.6 million (vice Clintons 70K over the last several years) Trump recently donated to veterans organizations, then yeah, he's never financially supported the military... Either way, I sincerely believe there's no conceivable way he hasn't paid any taxes in the last 20 years, otherwise he would be behind bars instead of running for president. Trump may be an asshole, but I dont think he's a criminal. 

Did you see the news recently that showed proof his company, under his direction, broke the law by violating the embargo on Cuba that was in place until recently?  The statute of limitations has run out on the crime, though. 



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DialgaMarine said:
JustcallmeRiff said:

For almost 20 years my words have not always verbally supported the military but my tax dollars have always financially supported the military. For almost 20 years Trump has always verbally supported the military but he has never financially supported them. To our servicemen and women deployed around the world, who is more important?

 Well, I mean if you ignore the $5.6 million (vice Clintons 70K over the last several years) Trump recently donated to veterans organizations, then yeah, he's never financially supported the military... Either way, I sincerely believe there's no conceivable way he hasn't paid any taxes in the last 20 years, otherwise he would be behind bars instead of running for president. Trump may be an asshole, but I dont think he's a criminal. 

Yes Trump said he would donate to Veterans organizations. Months later ,only after questions from reporters about said donations did he actually cut the check. Read the New York Times article on the Trump Foundation very informative. He did not pay any federal taxes due to the exemption I'm sure he is paying state and local taxes on his real estate. Military spending comes from federal dollars. Tax laws are written by rich people for rich people. After five deferments from his military duties to the United States he gets to defer 18 years of his fiscal duty. It may not be criminal but it is deplorable.



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DialgaMarine said:
JustcallmeRiff said:

For almost 20 years my words have not always verbally supported the military but my tax dollars have always financially supported the military. For almost 20 years Trump has always verbally supported the military but he has never financially supported them. To our servicemen and women deployed around the world, who is more important?

 Well, I mean if you ignore the $5.6 million (vice Clintons 70K over the last several years) Trump recently donated to veterans organizations, then yeah, he's never financially supported the military... Either way, I sincerely believe there's no conceivable way he hasn't paid any taxes in the last 20 years, otherwise he would be behind bars instead of running for president. Trump may be an asshole, but I dont think he's a criminal. 

The 5.6 million was not from Trump own pockets.  This was money raised from his website and its not something he has done in the past but something he did just now.  If you look at Trump history with charitable contributions you find it very slim if nonexistent.  Next, you have him holding on to 1.9 million of that money until he was questioned about it from the press and suddenly it gets released.

The key is that if you only look at Trump today running for POTUS he suddenly cares but its hard to make that case when you look at 60+ years of his life where he really did not care unless it got him out of a lawsuit or advanced his agenda.

As for him not paying taxes for 20 years, yes he can do that legally.  All he has to do is continue to file bankruptcy for a bunch of properties that he has under his Chapter S corporation where their profit and losses is part of his personal expenses.  Next he claim a huge loss from those properties even though he is paying himself as CEO.  Next he can then hide income from his other business to his personal income under that loss and pay no taxes.  This is how tax shelters are done for rich people.  They purchase or become part owner of failing business where they put in a very little investment and then can claim million dollar losses to hid their other income and pay no tax.  Trump has effectly built his own tax shelter with his own failing business which now he can put the Taj Mahal their as well.