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    Trump Campaign Says He Won't Be Releasing Taxes

    http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...eleasing-taxes

    A top aide to Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Republican presidential nominee "will not be releasing" his taxes.

    "Mr. Trump has said that his taxes are under audit and he will not be releasing them," Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort told "CBS This Morning."

    "It has nothing to do with Russia, it has nothing to do with any country other than the United States and his normal tax auditing process," Manafort added.

    ...

    Conservative columnist George Will this week argued Trump doesn't want to release his taxes because they show "he is deeply involved in dealing with Russia oligarchs."

    "So to be clear, Mr. Trump has no financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs?" CBS's Norah O'Donnell asked Manafort.

    "That’s what he said, that’s what I said," Manafort responded. "That’s obviously what our position is."
    Gee, I wonder what he has to hide.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Antischism View Post
    Gee, I wonder what he has to hide.
    Probably that he's not even worth 1/10th of what he claims.

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    "So to be clear, Mr. Trump has no financial relationships with any Russian oligarchs?"
    What the hell is going on here? The media are going overboard trying to shift the focus from the DNC emails. As if the person who hacked the emails is more important than what's in them. Obvious wagging the dog here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by fcreature View Post
    Probably that he's not even worth 1/10th of what he claims.
    Yup

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    Quote Originally Posted by fcreature View Post
    Probably that he's not even worth 1/10th of what he claims.
    THIS. Let's call him out on it. Make it a meme, trending, viral, whatever....
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    Screw the IRS. Tired of people having to bow to the IRS as if they are God.....no one should have to show pay or even deal with them.
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    Lol losers. No one cares about this but losers.

    Too many problems to stop and answer every loser on what he is demanding. Don't like it that no one cares to answer you? Too bad no one wants the loser vote either.

    No one cares to meet my demands with puting Hillary in jail, especially her. I guess she don't have my vote.

    If I wasn't voting I wouldn't even be paying attention to this minutia. If I am voting as I am doing this election I am concerned about policy and character.

    Not providing unrequired taxes is the lest of my questions.



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    Quote Originally Posted by silverhandorder View Post
    No one cares about this but losers.
    Trump obviously cares a lot about it.

    ...as he should, since he made the "I'm rich and therefore smart" argument a cornerstone of his campaign.

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    The IRS says that the audit does not prevent him from releasing his taxes. His taxes have been under audit for decades. At least some of that is due to the complexity and carrying over deductions from one year to the next. "I will release them when the audit is done" but the audit will never be done. Can he still claim to be "open and honest" while hiding his own true financial status?

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...b45_story.html

    Today, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Trump regularly denounces corporate executives for using loopholes and “false deductions” to “get away with murder” when it comes to avoiding taxes.

    “They make a fortune. They pay no tax,” Trump said last year on CBS. “It’s ridiculous, okay
    ?”
    The last time information from Donald Trump’s income-tax returns was made public, the bottom line was striking: He had paid the federal government $0 in income taxes.

    The disclosure, in a 1981 report by New Jersey gambling regulators, revealed that the wealthy Manhattan investor had for at least two years in the late 1970s taken advantage of a tax-code provision popular with developers that allowed him to report negative income.
    That was released relative to a casino purchase.

    He criticized 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney for delaying the release of his returns. Romney, a former private-equity executive, had come under fire for paying a low tax rate because most of his income came from investments.

    “It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money,” Trump said at the time
    .

    Romney eventually released returns showing that, for his 2011 taxes, he chose not to take certain deductions, bringing his tax rate more in line with that of average Americans.

    Trump, early in his campaign, seemed ready to give voters a look at his tax filings.

    In January, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was ready to disclose his “very big . . . very beautiful” returns.

    But as his campaign gained momentum, Trump backed away from his declaration. He first claimed that ongoing audits by the Internal Revenue Service prevent disclosure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Antischism View Post
    is this how libertarianism goes now? the old "if you don't have anything to hide" taunt? i thought libertarians were better than that, and also advocates for privacy. especially when it comes to taxes. hypocrites.

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    http://thehill.com/policy/finance/27...ng-tax-returns


    Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is not prohibited from releasing his tax returns because he is being audited, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

    Nothing prevents individuals from sharing their own tax information,” the IRS said in a statement.


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    Quote Originally Posted by adissa View Post
    is this how libertarianism goes now? the old "if you don't have anything to hide" taunt? i thought libertarians were better than that, and also advocates for privacy. especially when it comes to taxes. hypocrites.
    So, who exactly, is the hypocrite?

    He criticized 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney for delaying the release of his returns. Romney, a former private-equity executive, had come under fire for paying a low tax rate because most of his income came from investments.

    “It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money,” Trump said at the time.

    Romney eventually released returns showing that, for his 2011 taxes, he chose not to take certain deductions, bringing his tax rate more in line with that of average Americans.

    Trump, early in his campaign, seemed ready to give voters a look at his tax filings.

    In January, he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he was ready to disclose his “very big . . . very beautiful” returns.

    But as his campaign gained momentum, Trump backed away from his declaration. He first claimed that ongoing audits by the Internal Revenue Service prevent disclosure.
    There is no spoon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ender View Post
    So, who exactly, is the hypocrite?
    Exactly. And we're talking about a guy who was asking Obama for his college transcripts, preaching about "transparency."

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    Quote Originally Posted by notsure View Post
    What the hell is going on here? The media are going overboard trying to shift the focus from the DNC emails. As if the person who hacked the emails is more important than what's in them. Obvious wagging the dog here.
    When Edward Snowden released his NSA documents to journalists, the attention by 100% of all media outlets was not the spying or the destruction of our civil rights, it was Edward Snowden. You could argue that to this day, he still is the focus in that series of events.

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    Because this is a real issue and effects your life a great deal.

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    Quote Originally Posted by adissa View Post
    is this how libertarianism goes now? the old "if you don't have anything to hide" taunt? i thought libertarians were better than that, and also advocates for privacy. especially when it comes to taxes. hypocrites.
    I don't think he should have to show anyone, but he has been promising to for a year now, and has criticized others for not doing it. Let your yes be yes.
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    He won't release them. Like I've been saying, Trump is not in this to win.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SilentBull View Post
    He won't release them. Like I've been saying, Trump is not in this to win.
    Is releasing someone taxes really a real issue? Hillary hasnt released the taxes from the Clinton Foundation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AngryCanadian View Post
    Is releasing someone taxes really a real issue? Hillary hasnt released the taxes from the Clinton Foundation.
    No I don't believe it is an issue. I couldn't care less personally. But Hillary will make an issue out of this, and it may hurt with independents.

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    Wait, drumpt said he'd do something then flip flopped on his stance? No way!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SilentBull View Post
    No I don't believe it is an issue. I couldn't care less personally. But Hillary will make an issue out of this, and it may hurt with independents.
    He can counter it with the Clinton foundation and the Hatti issue. Hatti is still a mess.



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    It's really a stupid precedent. If it's so important and vital to the people, the FEC could make it mandatory. It's just one more thing the corrupt media could talk about without saying anything of consequence. Has it ever mattered in the history of elections what's in someone's tax returns?
    I just want objectivity on this forum and will point out flawed sources or points of view at my leisure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Rebel Poet View Post
    I don't think he should have to show anyone, but he has been promising to for a year now, and has criticized others for not doing it. Let your yes be yes.
    EXACTLY.

    Trump demanded them from Romney- as I said earlier:

    He (Trump) criticized 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney for delaying the release of his returns. Romney, a former private-equity executive, had come under fire for paying a low tax rate because most of his income came from investments.
    There is no spoon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by adissa View Post
    is this how libertarianism goes now? the old "if you don't have anything to hide" taunt? i thought libertarians were better than that, and also advocates for privacy. especially when it comes to taxes. hypocrites.
    Which is more offensive: A socialist who doesn't pay their taxes or an anarchist who doesn't pay their taxes? For me, the choice is obvious because only one of those two people is a hypocrite.

    Trump advocates the expansion of government power and spending, and yet he's not willing to prove that he contributes toward the spending that he supports. I'd say that's important.
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