pg wrote on 11/11/19 at 14:14:41:



BFD.... that's no reason hide your taxes...

He's either a crook or a failed businessman.

WebsterMark wrote on 11/12/19 at 10:09:48:


Well then, what's he got to hide?

WebsterMark wrote on 11/12/19 at 11:29:50:



Well, if he's so goddarned great - then why the secrecy?

Like I said - 2 reasons.

1 - Inept
2 - Corrupt

pg wrote on 11/12/19 at 14:51:49:



So?

If he's such a "great businessman", he'd be able to explain what that means to a poor schlub like me... right?

No, sorry.

1 - He's an idiot
or
2 - He's a crook.

Uninformed voters would struggle with the concept of tax burdens and the vicious liberal media would have a field day with it.

Tap in birdie for that answer PG. Would have given you an eagle had you included protecting other businesses from the leftist in our country would target if they showed up as partners with Trump.  

But those are both two sides of the same coin. While ignoring the reality every single wealthy leftist has their own strategies to hide their legal financial actions from view, they'd crucify Trump for his.

These lawsuits will make their way to the Supreme Court where they'll obviously lose. Kinda tough to make income taxes part of the requirements for President when there wasn't an income tax when the constitution was written.

But, i'm shocked it hasn't happened yet, someone will illegally release his taxes at some point and that person will be crowned a saint by leftist.

Now, is it possible Trump is a tax cheat. Sure. I'd say odds are 75% you could find something. Question is what is it and how many others do  the same. Regardless, with the media the way it is today, there would be no fair discussion, it would be like this impeachment BS.

As we knew all along, there was never a number 3- just a bunch of noise.

Mavigogun wrote on 11/14/19 at 03:32:42:


I gave a pretty detailed and solid number 3. Hardly a bunch of noise.

It's hard to deny the likelihood Trump's taxes would be treated fairly. Let's assume there's nothing significant in them that's out of line with anyone else in his income and business bracket. Trump had some casinos go bankrupt primarily in Atlantic City if I recall. He was not the only one. Those failures are a topic brought up on here repeatedly. Worth noting by those who've never been even remotely involved in a senior management position in an operation like that.

In a previous life, I was a credit manager for an heavy equipment provider so I've got some real world practical experience with reviewing financial statements and company history before investing funds to build custom equipment for a company. My authority limit was relatively small being a youngster in the business. 500k or a million, don't recall exactly, but I also participated in reviewing the really big ones. Here's the reality. Sure, there are large companies with spotless records on paper. And I'd emphasize the on paper part. But there are a lot of companies with somewhat of a checkered past.

Operating a business is hard, that's why only a few do it. You can be the smartest person in the world and fail because of circumstances out of your control. You can make 99 correct moves in a row but that last one might set up your demise. Or.....you can be dump as a rock and stumble into success.

One of the smartest people I ever worked for drove home that point repeatedly. Her point was to look at the broadest base of information as possible to arrive at the decision that was more likey to occur than the other. And even if you did all that and made the most educated decision that should deliver success,  you can still lose.

Point is, most every person in Trump's category has failures in the past, some more than others. I have no idea where Trump stacks up because let's face it, there aren't many Donald Trumps. If I were going to benchmark to someone, I'd look at Mark Cuban.

Certainly worth noting that Cuban made noise about running against Trump (and if you recall the idea was well received) but that has virtually disappeared. I wonder what role revealing all his business dealings played in that?