DialgaMarine said:
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.
