2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumOk, so Hillary wrote off $13,000 for her taxes. BUT she and Bill did pay taxes.
This man is a scumbag.
The people saying they hate taxes and the IRS are the first ones to complain about government spending and the first one to call on the government for disaster relief, subsidies, increases in Social Security, Medicare and all other government services.
MyNameIsKhan
(2,205 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)including last year, and have often left many deductions unclaimed just to make them as unattackable on that basis as possible.
Thirty years of returned are public property, and it's basically worked.
Mamajami
(257 posts)as Trump did. That's who was saying it late last night. My point is she used the same write-off and still ended up paying about %30 of income in taxes.
fob
(5,579 posts)been allocated if chump had been paying his fair share of taxes over the past 21 years
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Mamajami
(257 posts)Forty years of tax returns are out there for the Clintons. They pay their fair share, period!
PoindexterOglethorpe
(26,612 posts)Bill & Hillary, or the Donald, I cheerfully take advantage of the various deductions I can. But I still pay taxes. I guess that makes me stupid.
Democat
(11,617 posts)Alert.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Glad someone else noticed.
NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)That's very low, given her income. Sounds like she over-pays on her taxes - or were you trying to make a different point?
The Wielding Truth
(11,421 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)is typical of what we all pay.
Koinos
(2,798 posts)Everyone should read what Hillary and Bill actually paid in federal income taxes:
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/page/tax-returns/
It is all very interesting reading. For 2015, their adjusted gross income was $10,594,529 (1040, Line 37), and their total taxes were $3,624,455.
The Clintons paid $3,624,455 in federal taxes.
https://m.hrc.onl/secretary/10-documents/01-health-financial-records/Clinton_2015_Form_1040_with_Signature_Page.pdf
And Trump paid? Well, we don't know, do we?
We can assume that Trump paid zero taxes for at least eighteen years.
Hillary and Bill have disclosed their taxes for every year from 2007 to 2015.
Cicada
(4,533 posts)So most of their income goes to benefit others. Trump? Not so much.
Koinos
(2,798 posts)Bill and Hillary have paid a lot of taxes, and Trump has paid -- until he proves otherwise by disclosing his tax returns -- nothing.
They have done their duty as good citizens. Moreover, they have established a charitable foundation -- the Clinton Foundation -- where 89% or more goes directly to charities. The Clintons have done so much good in so many ways for the United States and the world as a whole. Unlike Trump, they really care about people.
On the other hand, we have Trump's "charitable foundation," which is really a money-laundering, tax-evading, and self-dealing scheme. Can you imagine what that fool and his minions would do to the US Treasury and budget?