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(03-17-2017, 08:48 AM)xxlt Wrote:




A poster made the observation that the claim Trump does not pay taxes is bogus. In response I provide this clip in which Hillary Clinton states Trump does not pay any federal income taxes and Trump replies, "That makes me smart."

Later in the same exchange (I posted a short clip - anyone can easily find the whole debate on you tube or full excerpts of this section) he complains about the government wasting money and when Mrs. Clinton points out it wasn't any of Trump's money since he didn't pay any income tax his reply is, "It would have been wasted too." So twice in the debate he acknowledged he does not pay any income tax. This isn't some left wing conspiracy theory. This isn't a "he's really a Kenyan Muslim" smear designed to incite uninformed racists or idiots. Trump acknowledged - on national television during the presidential debates -and even boasted about not paying income taxes.

I suppose it is refreshing in the sense that he didn't reflexively lie as he so often does, but how anyone can say the claim he doesn't pay income tax is false is quite confusing to me.

Ut oh, he might have talked out of his ass in a debate. Is there any room left on the impeachment train, cause I'm coming aboard?


I don't think anyone thinks his tax record is a "left-wing" conspiracy. They most likely, like me, get a kick out of the left making it into such a big deal. He is not required to release his past taxes to the public and in over 70 years has never been arrested for tax fraud. The "conspiracy" comes from what folks think these taxes form will reveal:

Evaded paying taxes
Paid to the KGB
Donations to sexual assaulters are us
Business expenses of white hoods claimed
made the government pay him taxes
........