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I wish I had a dad like Trump's. "By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200,000 a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8. By the time he was 17, his father had given him part ownership of a 52-unit apartment building. Soon after Mr. Trump graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 million a year from his father. The money increased with the years, to more than $5 million annually in his 40s and 50s."

Good for Trump!!!

1 posted on 10/02/2018 12:41:13 PM PDT by Reno89519
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The NY Times already floated that tax story just days before the 2016 election in an attempt to sink his election chances. Now theyre just dusting off and recycling this old “scandal”, acting as if it was a brand new breaking story.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/us/politics/donald-trump-tax.html


104 posted on 10/02/2018 2:25:30 PM PDT by lowbridge
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Have they given up so completely on all the other fake news stories, that now they’re reduced to accusing him of being rich?


106 posted on 10/02/2018 2:34:52 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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The Slimes thought this was such a great hit they could hold it until 2020; but like the rest of what they write it’s a pile of warmed over crap.


110 posted on 10/02/2018 2:44:34 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberal is lies.)
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The $200,000 when Donald was 3 was $19,552.

Wealthy people have many legal ways to transfer wealth to their children. If the liberals didn’t want to take everything someone has earned when they die through the estate tax, they wouldn’t have to do so much estate planning.


111 posted on 10/02/2018 2:47:37 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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Insurance in case the fake assult/rape/etc trick doesn’t work. Even if desperate, I wouldn’t wipe myself with that paper.


112 posted on 10/02/2018 2:52:19 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day”)
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I came here to find the source of this article. I guessed the NY Times. They’re so predictable.


114 posted on 10/02/2018 3:09:16 PM PDT by Forgiven_Sinner (Seek you first the kingdom of God, and all things will be given to you.)
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and there's no FELONY involved here?

there MUST be an electronic trail of whoever looked at his returns

116 posted on 10/02/2018 3:25:23 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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By “schemes”, they mean he engaged in lawful practices to avoid paying more than he legally owed.


117 posted on 10/02/2018 3:41:22 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Democratic socialism is when the majority of people vote to steal your property.)
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whoa, so a real rich guy arranged his family’s finances so that the money wasn’t taxed by a giant federal bureaucracy?

Maybe we should’ve elected Trump’s DAD President a few years ago!


118 posted on 10/02/2018 4:12:21 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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The article is a nothingburger with a misleading headline


122 posted on 10/02/2018 5:46:40 PM PDT by xzins (Retired US Army chaplain. Support our troops by praying for their victory.)
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Used to be a standard practice for wealthy people to set up accounts for children and gift money to them. That way the taxes on the investments would be charged at the child’s lower rate.

Nothing dubious or unusual about that. I’m not going to bother to read the rest of the garbage because it’s likely lies and just more smear tactics.

I don’t care what happened way back then, I care about right now, and DJT has exceeded what I ever thought was possible.

So these Presstitutes can go suck an egg.


123 posted on 10/02/2018 6:09:27 PM PDT by greeneyes
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” All appropriate gift and estate tax returns were filed, and the required taxes were paid. “

from the article itself. So, how can they claim the opposite and have that title?


124 posted on 10/02/2018 6:10:19 PM PDT by Innovative
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#1. Re “Good for Trump” on his financial and business successes and “I wish I had a dad like Trump’s”.

Well, if the Donald wants another Jewish guy in the family, he can call me. My great grandfather, an immigrant from Russia, was a roofer. My grandfather, also an immigrant from Russia came over as a boy and worked with his father in their paint store (that came later). My father, a veterans of WW2 (CWS), worked in the paint store that became a wholesale plumbing supply store and lasted 50 years (during his serious to fatal illnesses, my sister and I ran the business for 12 years).

We believe in hard work, no matter what was given to us, as did our friends and their parents/grandparents.

Mr. President, you and I and my family have something in common - WE ARE NOT AFRAID OF HARD WORK (with a couple of wars thrown in).

Call me. I’ll bring the Gefilte fish, Brisket and Apple Cake.


128 posted on 10/02/2018 8:09:31 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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lol

stupid biased article

over and over it states what the buildings sold for years later ... instead of stating what the buildings were appraised at by the local government tax assessors. This was done to try to make Trump look bad in the article.

Properties are almost always undervalued by local government tax assessors for various reasons. And when the government is telling you to your property is worth “X” and is asking you to pay taxes on that value... who are you to argue with them? LOL

Obviously, when your trying to get a loan. It is in your interest to argue that the value is not what is listed on the tax rolls.

This isn’t illegal.


130 posted on 10/03/2018 6:24:12 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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HEY, NEW YORK TIMES? Why not investigate the financial ‘dealings’ of:

Hillary Rodham Clinton
Al Sharpton
Jesse Jackson
George Soros
The Kennedy Klan
Nancy Pelosi & Family
Diane Feinstein & Family (and her Chinese SPY!)
The Bush Cabal
Mrs. John McCain
and...

Feel free to add to the list, Freepers! People might actually READ The Slimes and you’d stop bleeding cash if you DID some REAL investigative reporting!


131 posted on 10/03/2018 6:47:17 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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Exactly, what’s the point? That his father was generous? I’d do the same for my kids.

But the LSM narrative is that he didn’t earn his money and therefore he’s not smart and therefore he can’t improve the economy because he doesn’t understand business and shouldn’t be president.

I say, get over it.


132 posted on 10/03/2018 11:17:12 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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Shep on Fox is going on and on today about this report. Drooling over the language of scams, and shams, fraud, tax evasion, etc. Really going overboard with the story, thinks he’s breaking news that will break President Trump. Comical really.


133 posted on 10/03/2018 12:31:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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