NYT Obtains Trump's Tax Returns From...1995
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Politics has always been like this, FDR refused to sign an anti lynching bill to get parts of his agenda through and then his social security excluded professions that were dominated by African Americans. Political parties are about identity, platform and sometimes personalities. The identity aspect of politics motivates white union workers to vote for a party that is explicitly anti-union, hell they were beating up anti-war protestors in the 60s as well. Democrats are the party that is identified with blacks and minorities , lgbt, feminists and that automatically turns people against them. The Teamsters Union endorsed Reagan even after he had fired 11 000 air traffic controllers and broke their union, those voters respond to the type of message Trump has and they will not vote for the current version of the Democrats.I think hanging chads + Iraq war fiasco + recession + "some black guy with a star trek name all up in the white house" wasfor white folk and they realized they were sold a bill of goods...which they were
Them getting seduced with a used car salesman is for anthropologists tho
Obama not roughing up the banks was his biggest mistake, it killed his hope and change shtick which was the perfect counter to this malaise. I pray he never gets into the Clinton/Blair hustle post presidency because that will just be heartbreaking to the believers.
The irony is that the Democrats have essentially become conservative where they want gradual change while the Republicans are advocating blowing everything up...insert Chinese saying here
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Change is inevitable...
This is a Center Right country. The Democrats are trying to win, plain and simple. The problem is, winning would require them to compromise the very ideals that their platform purportedly stands for. This is how they ended up with Hillary instead of Bernie.I think hanging chads + Iraq war fiasco + recession + "some black guy with a star trek name all up in the white house" was
Them getting seduced with a used car salesman is for anthropologists tho
Obama not roughing up the banks was his biggest mistake, it killed his hope and change shtick which was the perfect counter to this malaise. I pray he never gets into the Clinton/Blair hustle post presidency because that will just be heartbreaking to the believers.
The irony is that the Democrats have essentially become conservative where they want gradual change while the Republicans are advocating blowing everything up...insert Chinese saying here
And IMO the GOP doesn't want to blow everything up, they just want to win. They want to win so badly that they will support the racist and xenophobic ideals of their constituency in order to win elections because they know that this is a Center Right country and that that fact is on their side. Hence Donald Trump as the GOP nominee.
The dualitiesHillary talking about what's good for the people while she was on the board for Wal Mart
Dusty Bake Activate
Fukk your corny debates
The streets are saying Trump got a snitch in his house. There will be more leaks to come.
This is why you treat your people good. Trump didn't. Now he's paying for it.
This is why you treat your people good. Trump didn't. Now he's paying for it.
The Fukin Prophecy
RIP Champ
Gotta love how the dems schemed to pick the only candidate that could lose to this orange idiotic racist con troll...
This leak should be game over for this orangutan looking mothafukka but it wont be because tomorrow Assange dropping more Shillary ether...
Worst candidates of all time...
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Fast Money & Foreign Objects
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Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Trump’s Tax (Avoidance) Plan
David Leonhardt OCT. 3, 2016
David Leonhardt OCT. 3, 2016
Donald Trump’s tax avoidance isn’t just a story about Donald Trump. It’s also a story about the American tax system and how kind it has been to the wealthy over the past few decades.
The truly wealthy – like those in the top 0.1 percent of earners – paid more than half of their income in federal taxes in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. Since then, Washington has bestowed very large tax cuts on them, with declines in the top income-tax rate, the estate tax rate and corporate taxes. The wealthy have also become expert at dodging taxes, as Trump did.
Over the same period, of course, the rich have received much bigger pre-tax pay increases than the middle class and poor. It is a double whammy of rising inequality. And it’s unfair: much of the growing bounty from the American economy has flowed to a small slice of the population.
The tax rates of the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s may well have been too high. But the current rates are still far below those levels – and, again, pre-tax inequality is far higher. In today’s economy, higher tax rates at the top make sense.
My reading of the data is that President Obama’s tax increases have closed about half of the gap between the lows of the total federal tax rate on the top 0.1 percent during George W. Bush’s presidency and the highs of post-World War II years. Obama has effectively used the money to reduce inequality, paying for tax cuts for everyone else, health insurance, education and other programs, as well as deficit reduction.
Here’s where we return to Trump.
His clearest policy proposal is a gigantic tax cut for the wealthy, reversing the progress Obama has made against inequality. Trump would shower $1.3 million a year on the average member of the top 0.1 percent, according to the Tax Policy Center. Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, wants to raise their taxes further (but still not to the levels of the post-War years).
The larger meaning of Trump’s tax avoidance seems quite clear. He’s running for president partly to help other wealthy people be like him – and avoid paying taxes. If you want to understand his economic agenda, look at his tax dodge.
- http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/03/opinion/campaign-stops/trumps-tax-avoidance-plan.html