edwardmurphy wrote:I hate to sound so naive, but I believe in a social contract. We all live here, we all reap the benefits of government spending, and we all have a duty to pay our fair share.
Trump is using tax loopholes that are unavailable to the vast majority of us. As a real estate developer he gets to pretend that his real estate assets are depreciating in value and then deduct that imaginary depreciation from his income. Meanwhile, all of those assets are increasing in value, not decreasing, and he's reaping the benefits. That's ridiculous and unfair. I own a house, but I can't pretend it's losing value and use my imaginary loss to lower my tax liability. Neither can any of you, so why does he get to? He also seems to be able to deduct massive business losses and avoid paying income taxes for years to come, even while earning vast quantities of cash and living like a king.
He claims to be the champion of the little guy, but he's using all of the unfair tax deductions and loopholes that he rails against. What's worse, his proposed tax plan leaves it all in place and gives him even more advantages. He doesn't want people talking about that, so he's trying to hide his taxes to maintain the illusion that he's a man of the people rather than just another rich guy looking to get richer by taking advantage of a rigged system that was created to protect people like him.
The guy is a dishonest, self-serving scumbag.
Oh, and apparently he used a series of shell companies to buy inferior Chinese steel - you know, the stuff that's cheaper than Pennsylvania/Ohio/Wisconsin steel and is therefore killing jobs there - and use it on his projects in Chicago, thus saving himself millions by screwing the people he claims to care about. Make America great again!
Yes you do and can get deductions when you file your taxes and Trump can too but you are saying Trump is bad because he does the same thing you,I everybody does when filing taxes. You would be a bumb business man if you did what you expect Trump to do and would be out of business.Trump was right when he told Hillary in the debate "It makes me smart"
You're wrong,from day one Trump has talked about how he used current laws to make a lot of money and now he wants to do it for America and the American people.
Trump never denied he hired illegal immigrants and admitted over and over how he bought products from other countries like TV's from South Korea for his Hotels. So you have not paid attention to Trump,you have not listened to him but are adding things on that Trump admitted and was honest about it. Remember honesty is the main reason I support Trump. He was more honest than the others that ran including Hillary Clinton.
So go ahead and think you're hurting Trump by pointing out he buys products like shirts from other countries and think you're hurting him,but you're not because he has admitted he does it over and over throughout this campaign,but it also proves him correct about how jobs have moved to other countries to make their products instead of America because of the 25% corporate tax rate America now has which is higher than China's,etc so that America cannot compete.
Just wait until Trump lowers America's corporate tax rate to 15% just like China's which is 10% lower than America's.Then America can compete with them and companies will choose America over the other countries to do business in.
