(October 2, 2016 at 7:12 am)Cato Wrote:

(October 1, 2016 at 11:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yes, the deplorable assholes who will vote for him are the problem!

Perhaps, but not for this reason. It's simply asinine to chastise someone for not paying more taxes than they're lawfully required.

What it does show is that Trump is just another rich taker that does less than zero for our society.  It's not asinine at all.  At least that terrible awful Hillary did her part and paid 31%. 
 
If you'll remember the backlash (IMO rightful) Mitt Romney got when he released his taxes and it showed that he paid an effective tax rate of something around 14%.  Trump not paying anything for decades should make people pissed as hell (legal or not).  He makes Mitt look like a stand up guy. 

My guess is that he probably gives as much to charity as he pays in taxes.  How the fuck does his ability to dodge taxes help the US economy.  Idiot people who think our national debt is caused from headstart, food stamps, planned parenthood, or low income housing assistance...  Ugh....  How does the business acumen of The Donald being able to doge taxes help the US economy going forward? 
 
He's legally getting away sticking the bills to the rest of the US citizens.  He's not alone...  But most people can smell bullshit when "Rich" people don't do their fare share.

(October 2, 2016 at 7:12 am)Cato Wrote:

(October 1, 2016 at 11:19 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yes, the deplorable assholes who will vote for him are the problem!

Perhaps, but not for this reason. It's simply asinine to chastise someone for not paying more taxes than they're lawfully required.

Right now I'm chastising the fucker for trying to hide what he did by not releasing his tax returns.  Surely you can see the difference?

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http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/ny-attor...oundation/

Quote:NY Attorney General serves cease and desist order to Trump Foundation

Quote:“This does not mean that they can stop handing out money,” Tur explained. “It only means that for the moment, they must stop soliciting money.”

Should be easy to comply with the order.  They only hand out money to Drumpf's scams anyway.

(October 3, 2016 at 1:46 pm)Minimalist Wrote: <chuckle>

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/ny-attor...oundation/

Quote:NY Attorney General serves cease and desist order to Trump Foundation

Quote:“This does not mean that they can stop handing out money,” Tur explained. “It only means that for the moment, they must stop soliciting money.”

Should be easy to comply with the order.  They only hand out money to Drumpf's scams anyway.

But where's Drumpfuck going to deposit his wages now? He can't put them in his own account, as then he'd have to pay taxes, and he can't put them in his wife's as he'll be divorcing her soon enough anyways.

He'd better send them to his lawyers!

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/revealed...rom-china/

Quote:Revealed: Trump ditched US workers and secretly purchased steel and aluminum for last two projects from China

Quote:Plenty of blue-collar workers believe that, as president, Donald Trump would be ready to fight off U.S. trade adversaries and reinvigorate the country’s manufacturing industries through his commitment to the Rust Belt. What they likely don’t know is that Trump has been stiffing American steel workers on his own construction projects for years, choosing to deprive untold millions of dollars from four key electoral swing states and instead directing it to China—the country whose trade practices have helped decimate the once-powerful industrial center of the United States.

A Newsweek investigation has found that in at least two of Trump’s last three construction projects, Trump opted to purchase his steel and aluminum from Chinese manufacturers rather than United States corporations based in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. In other instances, he abandoned steel altogether, instead choosing the far-less-expensive option of buying concrete from various companies, including some linked to the Luchese and Genovese crime families.

You know, I'm starting to think that Drumpf is full of shit!

(October 3, 2016 at 4:51 pm)Minimalist Wrote: He'd better send them to his lawyers!

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/revealed...rom-china/

Quote:Revealed: Trump ditched US workers and secretly purchased steel and aluminum for last two projects from China

Quote:Plenty of blue-collar workers believe that, as president, Donald Trump would be ready to fight off U.S. trade adversaries and reinvigorate the country’s manufacturing industries through his commitment to the Rust Belt. What they likely don’t know is that Trump has been stiffing American steel workers on his own construction projects for years, choosing to deprive untold millions of dollars from four key electoral swing states and instead directing it to China—the country whose trade practices have helped decimate the once-powerful industrial center of the United States.

A Newsweek investigation has found that in at least two of Trump’s last three construction projects, Trump opted to purchase his steel and aluminum from Chinese manufacturers rather than United States corporations based in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin. In other instances, he abandoned steel altogether, instead choosing the far-less-expensive option of buying concrete from various companies, including some linked to the Luchese and Genovese crime families.

You know, I'm starting to think that Drumpf is full of shit!

If he's buy US products, he's a jobs creator..  If he's buying Chinese products, he's a smart businessman. 

Fuck..  Only god gets more silly stupid shit passes for being a hypocrite.

(October 3, 2016 at 6:45 pm)Kosh Wrote:

(October 3, 2016 at 4:51 pm)Minimalist Wrote: He'd better send them to his lawyers!

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/revealed...rom-china/



You know, I'm starting to think that Drumpf is full of shit!

If he's buy US products, he's a jobs creator..  If he's buying Chinese products, he's a smart businessman. 

Fuck..  Only god gets more silly stupid shit passes for being a hypocrite.

I'm pretty sure it's performance art

He not only can't stop bashing women he can't stop bashing veterans.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics...-1.2815752

Quote:Donald Trump sparks outrage by suggesting vets with PTSD aren’t ‘strong’ and ‘can’t handle it’

Quote:Some veterans are furious at draft-dodging Donald Trump for suggesting soldiers who develop post-traumatic stress disorder aren't "strong" and "can't handle it," seeing it as the latest in a string of insults toward their military service.

"What's he going to say next, he doesn't like service members who died because 'I like the ones who came home?’" said David Ortiz, an army veteran who lost his legs in Afghanistan, referring to Trump's insult of POW John McCain that he liked veterans "who weren't captured."

Welcome to the Orange Baboon's 'murrica...where only the little people pay taxes and fight wars.

Tazzycorn Wrote:

Mister Agenda Wrote:Evidence that Johnson is getting any support from the Koch brothers?

They pretty much created the Libertarian party and continue to bankroll it. It's a useful tool for them to ensure the Republicans are caught if they ever develop a conscience and actually start working to better the US. They did the same thing with the teabaggers, only this time kept it within the Republican party.

Worst. Bankrollers. Ever.

The LP doesn't have big money. It operates on a shoestring easily accounted for with thousands of individual donations, and a large portion of the money it does have goes to getting ballot access. You've essentially presented a conspiracy theory. The Koch brothers haven't lent the LP any real support in decades.

It doesn't get them anything. LP candidates tend to draw equally from liberal and conservative votes. They are against corporate subsidies. There's no percentage in it for the Koch brothers, and that's the only thing they care about.

To say that there's no percentage in libertarian policies for big business (koch merely being one example of the demographic), is, I think, a stretch.  Isn;t that one of the things that they proudly claim to possess?  They are good for business, right? Having two options that are good for business (as they see it) and one option that isn't (as they see it) is a blunt skewering of potential outcomes in one's favor. Doesn't take a conspiracy, just brute force of numbers.

In any case, the LP doesn;t get the support that the other parties do, that's for sure. They won;t, until someone can show those backers how to monetize their policies - and no, not in the direct and obvious way in which those policies are communicated, lol. For example, if getting rid of the doe beacme a liberatrian policy (and boy it;s a fan favorite, aint it) then private schools would be more profitable than they already are..should the LP be ensconced as a power player. "School choice" would be the name of the LP sponsored bill...but it;s use would be in backhanded private school subsidies. Now, right now, not only dos the LP not possess any significant political power, their policies offer no novel modification of that business model, and the religious right have a better pretext for their private schools..so if you were an interested backer, specifically in that industry, who would you give -your- money too?

Or, as we might call it...business as usual.