Posted on 10/01/2016 1:06:08 PM PDT by Voluntaryist
What If I Was Donald Trump? Stefan Molyneux answers Lester Holt's question about Donald Trump's tax returns - as if he was Donald Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
I’ll release my tax returns when my lawyers advise me to - but I can tell you this, Les - with the way Obama has weaponized the IRS to go after people whom he considers his enemies, were there anything at all in my returns that was negative and could be used against me, I’m sure it would have been leaked to the press months ago....
A+ he’s hired!
You nailed it!
Is that what he says on the video???
I don’t know - it’s what I would have said.....
good video, but he did it in 6 minutes. he’d have to squeeze it to 2 or 3.
and holt would never have let him get such an answer out properly. it threatens the govt money train
the video is worth watching. it’s a quality narrative on the general problems with taxation and the over all question of the tax return being fired at Trump
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It is brilliant. I forwarded to a dozen people.
Another reply: There is very little doubt in my mind Mrs Clinton that the thugs in government...presently...have shared my tax returns with you, so, why dont YOU share with us what it is about them that YOU think I am hiding...?
Good one - Trump’s got to learn debate jujitsu - taking what’s thrown at him, deflecting it with some short and mild justification and then pivoting to some attack on Hillary which will divert her on to her own problems - he has to avoid looking so defensive and get back on the offensive as soon as possible....
Well you nailed it. Perfect.
Bravo! Standing O!
As a CPA I would never recommend that Trump release his returns. I would use it to his advantage by pointing out how the Democrats used the IRS to block the Tea party Groups, point out how Hillary had private FBI files in the White House, and accuse the Clinton of using the IRS against their political enemies in the 1990’s.
Lest We Forget – Hillary’s $100K Cattle Scam
The story intensified in April 1994, when the first couple was forced to pay an additional $14,615 in back taxes and interest after it was learned that the first lady had made more money on commodity trades than had been revealed to the public or to the IRS. Hillary cheated on her taxes!!!!!
Hillary’s cattle futures were purchased through Robert L. “Red” Bone of the brokerage firm of Refco, Inc. It was Jim Blair who had put her in touch with Bone—who had previously worked for Tyson for more than a decade. Bone was an inveterate gambler, a high-profile, high-stakes poker player well known to the pit bosses of Las Vegas. He was a gambler at the office as well. The year before, Bone’s sharp practices had led the Chicago Mercantile Exchange to accuse him of allocating trades to investors after determining the winners and losers, a practice known as “straddling.” Bone was punished by having his license to trade pulled for one year.40
The deal was arranged in the following way. All Hillary had to do was put $1,000 of her own money into a block of cattle futures at a time when her husband, then the attorney general, had a thirty point lead for the governorship. How did Hillary make out?
From her initial investment of $1,000, she came away with $99,537. Among the community of experts, there is general agreement that between 75 percent and 90 percent of commodity players lose. And no one turns $1,000 into $100,000. “
My take: I have a complicated return as you might imagine. My lawyers instructed me to release them after the IRS audit is complete, which I will gladly do. But I can assure you I paid every dime due under the code, and I didn’t tell my lawyers to delete my records and bleach bit them to obstruct a federal investigation.
Further, I am in the commercial real estate business which is heavily engaged with local and state, often the beneficiary of tax incentives in exchange for the economic growth that results from my projects. They employ hunderds of workers not only in the construction phase, but over the long term as my tenants open their shops to the public. Millions is local property and sales taxes are generated as a result of my projects, as well as the income taxes on the new jobs created.
I wouldn’t expect my opponent to understand any of this as she’s never met a payroll in the private sector, but has lived of the taxpayer and liberal donors her entire life. She doesn’t understand these basic economic principals and is clueless how to Make America Great Again.
I would remind everyone that Bill Clinton took a deduction on his tax return for his used underwear donated to charity....
In previous returns, when Mr. Clinton was the Governor of Arkansas and his wife was a partner in a Little Rock law firm, the Clintons had gone so far as to deduct $2 for underwear donated to charities.
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/04/16/us/clinton-taxes-laid-bare-line-by-line.html
Clinton, on the other hand, has valued his underwear as high as $2 a pair. And a pair of long underwear, per Clinton on his 1988 return, is worth $15.
A typically extensive document — which apparently Clinton wrote out in his own hand for the tax return filed for 1986, when he was serving his third term as governor of Arkansas — is titled “Salvation Army 12/27” and lists items numbered 1 through 17, for which Clinton took a deduction of $555.
Item No. 1 is “Gabardine Suit=Ripped pants — $75.” No. 8 is “Brown Sportscoat — 100.” No. 10 is “6 pr. socks — 9.” And No. 12 is “3 pr. underwear — 6.”
I’d rather Trump proclaim the Times document fraudulent, and remark that if the document was genuine, it would demonstrate that the IRS under obama is a corrupt and illegal operation - and who could believe that. The IRS is forbidden from divulging taxpayer information, so this document cannot be corroborated.
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