\u00a0 Every other candidate for the US Presidency has provided the public with their tax returns for almost 50 years.\u00a0 The public has a right to know and needs to know\u00a0 the details of those returns to understand how each individual is conducting their affairs.\u00a0 Trump is the only one not to furnish the last 10 years of US and State tax returns to the public.\u00a0 His argument that the tax returns are in audit and cannot be disclosed is nonsense.\u00a0 Even the IRS indicates that those Trump tax returns can be disclosed to the public.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 So what is he hiding.\u00a0 A great deal I suspect.\u00a0 He has already disclosed that he has made $698 million in 2015 so he is happy to let us know that his gross income is substantial and \u2018very great\u2019, one of the greatest in the US.\u00a0 This is 14,000 times what the average American makes.\u00a0 But we get no details on where it comes from among his many partnerships and corporations.\u00a0\u00a0 We just don\u2019t know who he is working with and what holds they have over him.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As to the federal and state income taxes he pays each year, we only know that he paid none in 1995 ( he lost almost $1 billion) and none in the years for those returns furnished to New Jersey to obtain the gaming licenses for his New Jersey Casinos.\u00a0 One thing he is hiding is that he is not paying any US income tax or New York State Income Tax.\u00a0 So in other words, he is not paying one penny to support National Defense and the Army, Navy, Marine, Air Force, and Coast Guard personnel or their equipment\u00a0 that protect us.\u00a0 He is not paying one cent to pay for the Medicare B and D programs that provide seniors with their outpatient and drug benefits.\u00a0 He is not paying one penny to pay for our roads and other infrastructure that he indicates is in such poor shape.\u00a0 The 14,000 average tax payers would be paying $6,000 each and $84,000,000 collectively.\u00a0\u00a0 If he paid this amount or his fair share which would be substantially higher and others like him paid their fair share, we would have the resources to rebuild these roads and facilities in the past and in the present.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But he says \u201cI am smart\u201d\u00a0 was his comment when he was confronted with this assertion, confirming he paid no US and State Income Taxes.\u00a0 Others have called him a tax genius. He is no such thing.\u00a0 He followed his father into the family business, was given a good stake of money, and inherited all the lucrative tax breaks already available in the US Tax Code for the real estate business.\u00a0 He and his real estate fat cats like the hedge fund managers subsequently gave the Congress monies to increase these tax loop holes.\u00a0 Trump is a manipulator and briber, not a tax genius.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trump is also hiding his lack of charitable deductions.\u00a0 He does not tithe to his church.\u00a0 Evangelicals note this.\u00a0 He does not give to many other organizations except the Trump Foundation\u00a0 and that is a sham.\u00a0 The Foundation was fined $2,500 by the IRS for paying a bribe of $25,000 to the Attorney General of Florida to stall the review of Trump University.\u00a0 The Foundation also paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay legal settlements for Trump related corporations and partnerships.\u00a0 This is not what most of us consider a charitable purpose, but Trump seems to define everything around himself as most narcissists do.\u00a0 The Foundation should be closed down and the money given to real charitable organizations.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Trump is also hiding his debts and the holders of those debts.\u00a0 We know he is beholden to German and Chinese banks and probably Russian banks.\u00a0 Perhaps that is why Putin and Trump have such a bromance.\u00a0 This lack of transparency in his affairs will put him in an awkward situation when he has to choose between his personal interests and those of the United States of America.\u00a0 Generally, he favors his own personal interests every time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0 You have Clinton\u2019s tax returns for the last 20 or 30 years.\u00a0 You know all the warts, all the ways she has conducted herself financially.\u00a0 You know nothing about Trump except that he earns a lot of money and is beholden to a lot of people in the US and other countries.\u00a0 You know he is indebted to the German and Chinese banks (meaning the Chinese government).\u00a0 Given that, you cannot vote for Trump.\u00a0 You must vote for the candidate that has been transparent, Hillary Clinton.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sam Allen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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