How many people are going hungry so Trump can own this?

[L. Coyote]

A Look Inside Donald Trump's Lavish, $200 Million 'Palace'

..... Trump is looking for another legal victory. He’s been filing lawsuits since 1995 over airport noise in an attempt to keep planes from flying over the property, according to the Sun-Sentinel. The actions have reportedly already cost local taxpayers $600,000 in legal fees. His latest suit seeks $100 million in damages.

How much more than the average person's contribution to global warming can we write off to the pompous ass?

How much does his jet pollute the atmosphere we breath?

How much energy does he use each year while others freeze in the winter?

Does he even think about other people?

[WillowTree]

1. Why would anyone have to go hungry.......

.......because someone else owns a gaudy, ridiculously ostentatious "estate"?

The better question, how many people and their families are fed by all the jobs that are necessarily required to maintain the place and run the private club?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I made a thread slamming Trump but I see both sides of the argument.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027816930

As long as his money was made honestly and is properly taxed I don't have a huge problem with how he spends it though I would spend it differently.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. First of all, Trump never made much money "honestly." He cheated stockholders with bankruptcy...

Another poster, here at DU, described it as an old Mafia trick.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. I will amend my statement.

As long as someone makes his or her money honestly and it is properly taxed I don't have a huge problem with how he or she spends it . If it's spent ostentatiously I would spend it differently. However I don't anticipate that "problem".

[L. Coyote]

4. So, no one goes hungry when capitalists take all the money? Worked great in the Dark Ages, right?

Really, you think the elites can take all the resources for themselves an no one goes hungry? WOW.

[WillowTree]

7. I didn't say that no one suffers when elites "take all the money".

But that wasn't the question you asked to begin with.

[sufrommich]

3. I don't know about going hungry but Florida residents

need to be told that Donald Trump is trying to get 100 million from them. Told over and over.

[Downwinder]

5. It will be under water soon enough.

[PADemD]

9. Exactly

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. K&R how can Trump opponents read this and fail to recommend it?

[linuxman]

11. That's not how money/economics work.

How many kids starved today because you own the computer/phone you made this OP on?

If there were some fixed ammount of money on earth and trump physically took that money from someone (i.e., literally took it, not received it from the sale of goods or services) you'd have a point.

Someone having more than you doesn't mean they fucked you to get it.