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Trust Fund Baby's Latest Legal Loss

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by adoo, Dec 1, 2022.

  1. bobrek

    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    Can't fault him on the loans to his children. It's a tax strategy. Claiming the interest is the correct thing to do.

    In essence, he can loan his kids money as an interest only loan. Assume the interest payment is $20,000/year. He can then use his annual gifting to gift each kid the money to pay the interest.

    That scenario is perfectly legitimate.
     
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  2. Space Ghost

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    Did anyone find those tens of millions of Russian money on his return?

    So this is largely a nothingburger? (Did I do it right)

    RiCh pEoPlE nEvEr PaY tHeIr FaIr ShArE
     
  3. B-Bob

    B-Bob "94-year-old self-described dreamer"

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    Underrated post.
     
  4. deb4rockets

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    Trump is the nothingburger. Not as rich as he tries to claim, and not as Anti-China as he spews.
     
  5. Xopher

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    He paid more taxes to China in 2020 than he did to the U.S. I guess MCGA just doesn't have the same ring to it.
     
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  6. T_Man

    T_Man Contributing Member

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    So now what...

    We all get to see his tax returns... We know he's a liar, a con artist and a crook...

    So now what???

    Are they going to put him in jail.. Probably not... More thank likely not...

    So what's the point in all of this.. You can't embarrass him, because he just doesn't care, he doesn't care if you report good or bad news about him.. As long as he stays in the news..

    So back to my question now what???

    T_Man
     
  7. deb4rockets

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    Yes to all of it. Traitors, seditionists, and criminals should all be locked up. This isn't Russia or North Korea, where the leaders can get away with anything.
    If Trump walks, then this country is no different.
     
  8. Space Ghost

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    Continue to rant and rave over this nothingburger
     
  9. FrontRunner

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    Now we wait for his supporters to get out their knee pads and go to work...
     
  10. King1

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    Deb melting down again.
     
  11. T_Man

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    None of the above...

    Either put his @SS in jail or move on to something else....

    T_Man
     
  12. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    In jail for what? The article makes issues of some things but they aren't illegal. If the IRS wants to further investigate they can but there is nothing illegal about reporting losses

    Part of my issue on making them public is people don't understand the tax code. Nobody looks a candidate's taxes, this only became an issue with Trump not wanting to make his public. His taxes are complicated and it takes experts to decipher them and the public won't understand what the experts are saying

    Making them public isn't a requirement by law and these articles are making questions of his numbers but they have no idea if they aren't legitimate
     
  13. deb4rockets

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    Too many reasons to list. I'll start with inciting a coup and stealing Top Secret documents.
     
  14. rocketsjudoka

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    This man could still be President of the United States again. I get frustrated that Trump hasn't at least been indicted but that doesn't we should just give him a pass. This has been part of Trump's strategy to just overwhelm the public. If not to get him we need accountability for future Presidents.
     
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  15. rocketsjudoka

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    Again you're making an argument for ignorance. With that attitude we could say that any scandal such as Watergate isn't worth publicly disclosing because it is too complicated for much of the public to understand.

    This isn't directed at you but our more Right leaning friends. Many of the investigations targeting the Clintons were very complex and aggressive. Bill Clinton wasn't impeached for what the original investigation that Ken Starr was appointed for. That was questionable land deal in Arkansas. The "Clinton Cash" was a very complicated issue involving a Uranium company and the Clinton Foundation. Even the issues around Hunter Biden are very complicated. It's interesting to note how so many of those eager to claim that Trump's dealings are "nothingbugers" and that the public doesn't care are so determined to pursue even the most tenuous and convuluted threads when it comes to their political opponents.
     
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  16. rocketsjudoka

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    That he literally signed the checks that put Michael Cohen and Weisselberg in jail.
     
  17. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    The IRS already vetts tax returns. Making Trump's returns public is unnecessary and intrusive.

    Joe Schmo Citizen is responsible for reviewing tax returns. The IRS is and these returns have already been through that process
     
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  18. rocketsjudoka

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    Running for President isn't a right. It's a position of public trust. The mere act of running for President means you're already opening yourself up for scrutiny.

    Honestly I find it mind boggling that you're so insistent on sayign that someone who is asking the public to make a voluntary decision to elect them to the most important position in this country if not the World should do so on merely their word.

    There are very few jobs that would hire someone on that basis.
     
  19. pgabriel

    pgabriel Educated Negro

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    The tax returns have already been vetted by the authorities All you need to know is he is following the law. Because someone is a public official you don't have a right to know all their business. Not to mention people don't even understand this information

    Is this true for police officers also?
     
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  20. Rileydog

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    Overwhelm the public. Flood the zone, per Bannon.

    Trump is like the Stockton/Malone Jazz, or the Payton/Kemp Sonics. They intentionally committed so many fouls so that refs could not possibly call all of them.
     

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