You have no proof that he's a tax dodger though. None at all. There isn't one shred of evidence pointing to it. Everything that was in the NYT from his previous tax return was legit and on the up and up. All that proved was that the journalists don't know shit about taxes, and again, no one in their right mind in the middle of an audit would release them until the audit was over.
You don't give anyone any reason to audit you? That's a very very strange statement. How could you say something like that? Do you pay federal income tax? Do you get any credits? Do you itemize? You take no deductions? How much do you pay in taxes per year vs. Donald? Do you spread out depreciation or do you take all your losses the next year? You realize that people are randomly selected for an audit at no fault of their own, right?
I see statements from people like this as being greedy. You want more of someone else's money outside what the tax code provides. You have no right to someone else's money outside the law, especially if they're paying more in than what you are paying. That's greed. Greed is greed. It isn't any less greed just because someone has a lot more than what you have and and everyone thought they were entitled to it than if they had just a little more and you wanted a piece of it.
It's not dodging taxes if you follow the law, the same law that all businesses and individuals big and small follow. There is no evidence at all that he is dodging taxes. None.
Your must be joking.
"I see statements from people like this as being greedy.”
But when Trump says how smart he is for paying zero taxes for the years we know about he isn’t somehow greedy?
I realize people are randomly selected, but they are also selected for “red flags”.
And just so you know...I always pay all my taxes, and yes, took what minimal deductions are available to the working class...but those are more taxes than we know Trump has paid.
There are many loopholes available to the rich that the rest of the working class cannot use.
(Wonder how those became tax law? It still doesn’t make it right either.)
I used to have credit cards when I was younger, but eventually decided it was smarter to just pay for things I have immediate money or saved money for - and I cut them up.
Which makes tax time very easy.
I don’t want MORE of someone else’s money...I want that someone else to fucking pay their FAIR share if they are going to live and benefit from our society.
If Trump is going to cut taxes even lower than Reagan did, then where are we going to get the money to fund anything?
If right now, we have 65,000 bridges deemed “unsafe” and in need of replacement or repair...if right now we have no money to fix the pipes in Flint so no other children get lead poisoning....or we have no money for schools, healthcare, social security, our Vets, etc., etc., where is it going to come from?
How about the estimated $21 Trillion in illegal offshore bank accounts that isn’t being taxed because it’s being hidden by the rich?
Or companies like GE and Shell that not only pay no taxes as they destroy our environment, but we give them subsides to boot.
In other words - the hard earned money of the people, taxed by the government and given to them even though they and many other giant corporations make record profits year after year.
Shouldn’t they pay?
Because right now the middle class and working poor are being fleeced at every turn.
And yet...somehow, the conservative base likes to make the poor the villains...them and the illegal immigrants...it’s all them draining the economy right?
Even though our military spends more than the next 10 major military forces spend combined.
Or a huge portion of folks working at places like Walmart still don’t make a living wage and are again subsidized by other worker’s tax dollars as food stamps.
I find it distasteful that you shame me for trying to change tax laws that benefit only the very rich, that is opposite how I think, do not put words in my mouth unless you know me damn well.
The whole thing is - we don’t know, because he won’t show us those other years that aren’t being audited...so one assumes (right or wrongly) that he doesn’t want people to see something.
We don’t know if he owes money to China or Russia, which is something that is kind of important to know if someone holding the Presidency is being leveraged by a foreign power.
As for proof...how much do you need?
Donald Trump Acknowledges Not Paying Federal Income Taxes for Years
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html?_r=0
Vanity Fair
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/the-great-trump-tax-mysteries
