Its' been many months since I posted in this board, but I couldn't pass this up. One of the biggest questions should be not how Donald J. Trump(Drumpf) would be able to skip taxes for up to 18 years. The biggest question should be - How in the He%^ll did Trump lose almost $1B USD (916M and change) in 1995, when the country was doing a bumper business (budget surplus). And, how do you have 3 casinos, which are simply money making machines by definition, go bankrupt, and he makes a profit over those same bankruptcies. Is this the business acumen that will decide how great of a business man he is? Do his uneducated supporters, his own words, truly believe that this creature of the so called Republican Party, I say so called because the Republican Party hasn't been the Republican Party since 19665, can bring this country together and make it whole?

How? Trump is a Successful Capitalist. He is being judged, by the Voter's, upon that fact.
It is still unbelievable to me. That the Political Establishments, Newspapers, Media, Liberal/Left Wing 'Expert' Commentators, are still living in a La La Land, regarding how to defeat a Trump Type.
Their absolute stupidly, in not understanding that the Trump Support is all about Anti-Washington, Anti-Globalists, Anti-Controller's, Anti-Orwellian Left, et al.
Is truly amazing.

@ Cliff
Trump took some profits from Trump Tower, with his delusions he was some sort of midas, and borrowed huge amounts of cash which he "invested" in to the casino business which he knew absolutely NOTHING about. He felt confident that he was "too big to fail", and in some measure proved correct. He blew every cent the banks had invested in him and, if you recall recent history, they took a pass on taking him down but instead insisted that he get out of businesses he knew nothing about. The banks also realized that the Trump name on the casinos was their only guarantee that the properties would have any value at all. This was a huge lesson to Trump. He realized that he didn't have to own anything or even run it. He simply partnered with others who would use his name and all he had to do is market the name Trump.
The near billion dollar loss was the result of his stupid business decisions. The loss was properly claimed on personal taxes since he never seperated his business from his personal income. It was aborgated over an 18 year period which he paid NO taxes. If he were to do the same today, the tax code would allow 22 years to claim the loss against profits.
This is how Trump learned to market his name, make money doing it, and because of his megalomaniac disorder, began to equate power with popular cultural acceptance. ... and I think that sadly he may have been correct.
The Republican and Democratic political parties themselves stand for absolutely nothing. They are BOTH just Authoritarian power-brokers. Trump has not made or changed the Republicans.

@ Clyde
People appear dim witted as a group, with extreamly short attention spans and no interest in history any further back than a few weeks.
ALL sources of the media lead these same people/voters down that same short sighted, short attention, truth doesn't matter road that leads to silly decisions. I'm not amazed, just mildly disgusted.

@Cliff, I have a much bigger question. How did Drumpf have a loss to claim if he ran to Bankruptcy court? To have a loss you have to pay out money. Getting it discharged in Bankruptcy is an income generating event as it is canceled debt which is subject to income tax. Perhaps we know the real reason he doesn't want too many eyeballs looking at his tax returns. There is no SOL on tax fraud.

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