Posted on 10/04/2016 12:26:50 PM PDT by seanmerc
The season of “the October surprise” is hard upon us, but this year we’re getting the October surprise on the installment plan. There’s a medium-sized surprise with the morning paper every day.
The New York Times delivered what it thought would be the A-bomb late last week, with the news that Donald Trump had used the tax laws to count losses against tax liabilities to defer paying $916 million in taxes.
This October surprise was apparently meant to suggest that the Donald was either an incompetent businessman and couldn’t be the rich man he says he is, to run up losses like that, or an unpatriotic genius, to use the tax code to enable him to save his business and stay alive to earn again. Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York City, called it “genius,” reminding everyone of the obvious, that the tax code enables every American, even an American despised by the “elite” media, to count losses against income.
This elite media was beside itself through the weekend, confident that The New York Times had finally fashioned a silver bullet if not an A-bomb, and the Donald would be destroyed once and for all, restoring civility, good table manners, peace in our time, free pot and soothing silence to the fractious land. Dean Baquet, the executive editor of the newspaper, was celebrated as a particular hero because he promised to go to jail to get the story in print. Bob Woodward, an editor at The Washington Post, said he would have printed it and wants to go to jail, perhaps to share a cell with Mr. Baquet.
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Isn’t the NYT used as the graphic for the wiki entry describing failed business model?
On news today, Hillary was saying how smart can he be to lose 1 billion dollars. The come back for Trump should be at least I didn’t lose 6 B when you were Sec of State.
Are you sure?
This is exactly what I’ve been screaming at the talks shows on the radio all day today - sigh...
Yeah, Those images WERE disturbing.
The NYTimes also took advantage of the very same tax regulation that the NYT said Trump used to AVOID taxes!
DJT said not paying taxes makes him ‘smart’. He didn’t avoid taxes, he simply complied with the tax code.
Go, Trump, GO!
An obvious photoshop - the bags under her eyes are much, much puffier!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3476288/posts
But its ok there for that kind of genius...
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“Yeah, Those images WERE disturbing.”
Those images are what “Pure nightmares are made of.”
The real October surprise is that Hillary wrote off $700K in 2015. What kind of person takes a tax loss while they’re running for office? And how does a politician ‘lose’ $700K in one year?
HARRIDAN ALERT!
I’ll have to start calling her the Crypt Keepers Great-Grandma again.
I never noticed that she has a mole above her lip.
Priceless!
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