Posted on 10/02/2016 7:20:32 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Do you think Trump leaked his own tax returns? If yes, why? If no, should he sue the NY Times?
I can see why he would. It opens the discussion to tax reform and shows people how little they know about how they are being ripped off by the CCF.
What difference, at this point...you know the rest.
1. It gives him an excuse never to release any of them ("I am outraged over this violation of my privacy, and my lawyer advised me not to release any tax returns until we get to the bottom of this.")
2. It allows him to play the victim and paint the media in a bad light.
3. Another astute Freeper pointed out that his more recent tax returns may be out there, and many of them may show $0 in income taxes paid. Releasing this return with the $900 million in carry-forward losses would help establish the context for those later returns with no taxes paid.
Of course not.
He better stay focused on who it is that he is running against.
No, I am sure he did not.
The butler did it.
Seems perfectly logical reasoning.
If he didn’t, he should be thankful.
I think there’s an ethics issue here if he did this. He would be misleading the public with a stunt like this.
One other, is that it shows he can play the media like the chumps that they are.
Either way, he can pick up the mantle and bash the IRS for illegally releasing them.
I don’t think he did it..
Some of the replies here make a good case for it, some of that makes sense, I just don’t think he did. He’s not Hillary you know, and that’s way too much like something she would do.
I did think of Michael Moore, but that story sounds too much like a hoax, why would Trump carry his tax returns around the country on his plane? And if Moore did actually get something related to his taxes, does anyone really think it would not have been all over the NYT the next day? That one pegged a 9.4 on my bullshitometer...
I don’t know where anyone would get their hands on Trump’s tax returns, or a couple of pages of one, but I don’t think he did it himself. Hillary, absolutely, it’s right up her alley. It is food for thought, but I doubt it.
It was Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick.
We don't want someone who can play the media like a violin!
We want the same old dufuses who lose like gentlemen.
As much as the Clintons and the Dhimmis already have so corrupted the IRS, and every other governmental agency, I suspect they already know all there is about Trump’s taxes. They just haven’t “leaked” anything because they know it’s too squeaky clean to be of any benefit to them.
Silly question, of he did NOT release his own tax returns in this manner.
It would be foolish and any perceived gain would be wiped out if it was found out that he leaked it.
The NYT did something very stupid on many levels — they will regret it!
The NYT think we are stupid and have no idea how the tax system works in terms of losses being carried forward.
Idiots!
I don’t think he leaked them because of a few things that came down during the debate. First of all, he mentioned where some of his taxes can be viewed...legally. Refer to the debate for exact details.
Secondly, when Clinton mentioned his taxes, she accused him of not paying taxes. She had that side glance KNOWING in her face and taunting tone of voice. She clearly KNEW what was on at least some of his taxes. I remember wondering HOW she would KNOW. Well, she’s a lawyer (liar) and she knows better than to ask questions she doesn’t know the answers to.
Therefore I summize that she was behind it, she already saw it, she knew what was on it.
Watch Trump’s body language. Totally defensive when she brings up the fact that he hadn’t paid any taxes.
Well, the fact of the matter is, any loopholes he may have utilized are available to ANYBODY to utilize if they qualify for them. You can go to H&R Block and receive...free...books to plan your spending so that you can better YOURSELF rather than the government. The government has decided you must let go of a certain amount of income, but you have the choice as to how to do that.
You can take that money and invest it in areas that give you tax breaks. Yes, you can do that and there is NOTHING wrong with it. It’s not legally wrong, and it’s not morally wrong.
But Hellary has to appeal to low information voters in order to pull off her lies and stunts. People with means, know better. They pay accountants to assist them in that very thing...which is also a tax deduction.
Trump is very unlikely to have picked returns that make him look incompetent (such as running up massive losses in his business ventures).
Trump should not sue over it, because that would be an admission that he considers the contents of the returns damaging to himself. He should pound on the NYT as hypocrites (everybody hates hypocrites) and criminals in league with a criminal’s campaign.
No.
Apparently he talked about this at length years ago, so no surprise if the return was released then as a point of discussion and now rediscovered as Hillary’s minions frantically search for dirt.
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