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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumTrump essentially conceded that he's paid little or no income tax
Livin LargeBy JOSH MARSHALL Published OCTOBER 1, 2016, 11:11 PM EDT
In case you've missed the news, The New York Times was leaked a small shred of Donald Trump's 1995 tax returns. But even with that small shred, they were able to determine that when Trump's highly leveraged Atlantic City casino empire imploded in the early 90s he was able to generate almost $1 billion dollars in business losses which have likely enabled him to avoid paying income taxes for the intervening 20 years.
The Times is a bit more circumspect, saying Trump "could have" used these losses to avoid paying federal taxes for "nearly two decades." In his campaign's response though, in addition to threatening legal action, Trump essentially conceded that he's paid little or no income tax, listing all the other forms of state, city, excise, property taxes and more that he has paid. In other words, everything but income taxes.
Needless to say, this alone would likely explain Trump's inflexible resistance to releasing his tax returns. It might well also explain and perhaps add credibility to Trump's claim that he's been permanently under audit for years. At least in theory there's nothing illegal or improper about what Trump appears to have done. The Times doesn't suggest Trump broke any laws. But the IRS would probably look very closely at a scale of declared losses which would allow a super rich person like Trump to avoid having any taxable income for decades.
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Trump essentially conceded that he's paid little or no income tax (Original Post)
DonViejo
Oct 2016
OP
In Debate he didn't deny paying zero taxes. Calling himself "smart" alienates him from middle class
Bernardo de La Paz
Oct 2016
#2
randome
(34,845 posts)1. Worse than that, he has admitted that his 'smart businessman' persona is crap.
Nearly a billion dollar loss.
Ponder that for a moment: what businessman loses that much money in such a short time-frame?
Answer: an idiot who doesn't know what he's doing.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one youre already in.[/center][/font][hr]
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)2. In Debate he didn't deny paying zero taxes. Calling himself "smart" alienates him from middle class
and working poor.
The more he talks about this, the more it is kept alive. Which is bad for Donald J. tRump and the Grumpy Old Palefaces.