10-04-2016, 10:14 AM
(10-04-2016, 09:55 AM)Blindgreed1 Wrote: I refuse to endorse either, but bankruptcy and tax breaks for the 1% is the norm. Not really a smoking gun. Lets face it, if he didn't take full advantage of what our government provides for the wealthy he'd be either an idiot or bat shit crazy. The jury is still out on the latter.
Yeah, I think not releasing his tax returns after promising to do so many times, criticizing other people for doing exactly what we now know he did himself, criticizing people for not paying enough taxes when we now know he wasn't paying any personal income taxes at all..is probably more problematic for Trump than the fact that he took full advantage of tax codes.
I don't know if 6 bankruptcies for a billionaire business person is the norm. Maybe it is. But, again, I don't think the fact that he filed bankruptcies harms him as much as bragging about being the king of debt and intentionally not paying vendors and small businesses for the work they performed on his projects.
I've been stiffed twice by clients who refused to pay their large final invoices in full; it hurt my small business a lot. It's pissing me off again just typing about it. Even before I owned a business, I would never have taken services from a person or a company knowing that I was not gonna pay them what I promised and harm them financially for my own gain. I think I'm more the norm than the exception in that regard and it's one of the biggest deal breakers for me when it comes to Donald Trump.