Clinton Knocks Trump For Bragging About Not Paying Taxes During Debate
Source: Talking Points Memo
Fresh off a strong performance in the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton on Tuesday knocked Donald Trump for bragging about not paying taxes and financially benefiting from the housing crisis. Speaking to an audience at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina, the former secretary of state repeated her debate-night claim that Trumps refusal to release his tax returns may be because he had paid nothing in federal taxes, as was true on the few years of his returns that he made public. Trump replied on stage, "That makes me smart."
Now, if not paying taxes makes him smart, what does that make all the rest of us? Clinton asked the crowd. Clinton said that she and her husband Bill didnt come from billionaire families but have been financially successful in their public lives. We believe with the blessings weve been given, we should do our part, she said to cheers from the audience.
Clinton then went after Trump for boasting to the debate audience at Hofstra University about his past comments calling the housing market bubble a great opportunity for his real estate empire. Trump said of those remarks, Thats called business.
What kind of person believes that? Clinton asked. What kind of person would want to root for 9 million families losing their homes? One who should never be president is the answer to that question.
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bucolic_frolic
(43,568 posts)Build the momentum, Hillary, run like the wind!
Mister K
(450 posts)Doesn't president Obama have access to all IRS records? I have a feeling that Hiliary and Obama already know the answers but cannot say.
onenote
(42,885 posts)President Obama is as smart as they come and he wouldn't dare take the risk of asking for Trump's IRS records. If he did so and it came out, it would be explosive and not in a good way.
Tempest
(14,591 posts)Only the DOJ can get access and they have to have a criminal investigation ongoing in order to request them.
Laws have been put into place since the Nixon years to prevent the executive office from gaining access to IRS records because of Nixon's abuses.
So your feeling is misplaced and wrong.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)it sets a dangerous precedent
MissMillie
(38,616 posts)A man who professes to earn $690 million last year pays nothing in taxes.....
No great mystery who pays the taxes to make up for that.....
forest444
(5,902 posts)Because now that Drumpf has broken precedent by refusing to release his tax records, we can expect future Rethug nominees to do likewise.
Romney, famously, already tested those waters by refusing to release his most recent returns; but this is much worse. The latest one we have from Trump is from '79 - and that's only because, as Hillary pointed out, Trump filed for a casino license back in 1980, and they were required for those permits at the time.
niyad
(114,007 posts)single one of his financial dealings for his whole damned life. the russian connection, the 4,056 lawsuits, everything. I suspect that the russian connection is only ONE illicit dealing.
Monk06
(7,675 posts)Last edited Wed Sep 28, 2016, 01:03 AM - Edit history (1)
"It's just business" is just a way of saying commerce is amoral and above common decency
Adam Smith's invisible hand of the market is a theoretical idea that when it becomes dominant in the real world, mutates into the very tangible fist of brutal economic oppression
While classical liberal economics expanded the middle class in the nineteenth century, it is destroying the middle class and the poor in the 21st
The economic paradox of scarcity as it applies to surplus value has now become a real scarcity of resources in the present day. With world population doubling in my lifetime from 3 to 6 billion, it has become apparent to everyone, especially the rich, that you can't be rich if you don't eliminate the middle class
To the rich money is a commodity to be traded not just a repository of value The prime mover of money is to make more money with the smallest expense of personal resources possible
The rich don't need to make their money manufacturing consumer goods for the middle class and the poor The very existence of the super wealthy is based on fulfilling their own desires at the expense of the needs of the rest of humanity
Beartracks
(12,846 posts)Just kidding. Excellent post!
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