Clintons release their latest tax returns - ouch, they took a hit

[gabester]

bfd wrote:
What IS Dumbf hiding? This should be the broken record that Dems play until Dumbf's UNREDACTED returns are made public.

(Because you know if they ARE ever released, they'll have more holes than a slice of swiss cheese…)

I'm willing to bet that they never will be released because he doesn't actually pay any taxes or have any income. It's all a bunch of shell corporations that give him free lodging and food and pay for his wardrobe and all his other needs in lieu of salary. He's just the one that signs off on the bottom line (actually it's probably Ivanka.)

How else do you declare bankruptcy so many times yet still claim to be a billionaire? None of it's technically his money.

At least, that's what I'd bet.
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[steve...]

At today's Pennsylvania Trump event:

Protesters Interrupt Trump Rally

[rjmacs]

hal wrote:
[quote=Speedy]The Clintons’ federal taxes in 2015 amounted to 34.2 percent of their income, and their combined federal, state and local taxes were 43.2 percent. They donated 9.8 percent of their adjusted gross income to charity.

I have no doubt that the Clintons would have paid MUCH less in taxes if not for the fact that they knew their returns would be under a microscope during the campaign. I'm sure they mapped out the finances years ago to look good in 2016.
I doubt it. I don't think that riches have ever been their endgame. Neither comes from money.

[cbelt3]

steve... wrote:
At today's Pennsylvania Trump event:

Protesters Interrupt Trump Rally

Grade school insults for a candidate with and for the grade school mentality.

I weep for this nation's idiocracy.

[vision63]

hal wrote:
[quote=Speedy]The Clintons’ federal taxes in 2015 amounted to 34.2 percent of their income, and their combined federal, state and local taxes were 43.2 percent. They donated 9.8 percent of their adjusted gross income to charity.

I have no doubt that the Clintons would have paid MUCH less in taxes if not for the fact that they knew their returns would be under a microscope during the campaign. I'm sure they mapped out the finances years ago to look good in 2016.
The question is what methods would they have employed to pay "much" less taxes? The implication is that they would have employed nefarious methods. I see no evidence that would generate "no doubts." Warren Buffet and Michael Bloomberg offered to show off their taxes in a challenge to Trump too. If there were legal ways for the Clintons to reduce their taxes legally, then I'm sure they would have employed them. Why wouldn't they?

[Speedy]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=hal]
[quote=Speedy]The Clintons’ federal taxes in 2015 amounted to 34.2 percent of their income, and their combined federal, state and local taxes were 43.2 percent. They donated 9.8 percent of their adjusted gross income to charity.

I have no doubt that the Clintons would have paid MUCH less in taxes if not for the fact that they knew their returns would be under a microscope during the campaign. I'm sure they mapped out the finances years ago to look good in 2016.
The question is what methods would they have employed to pay "much" less taxes? The implication is that they would have employed nefarious methods. I see no evidence that would generate "no doubts." Warren Buffet and Michael Bloomberg offered to show off their taxes in a challenge to Trump too. If there were legal ways for the Clintons to reduce their taxes legally, then I'm sure they would have employed them. Why wouldn't they?
Gov. Romney substantially underpaid his taxes in preparation for his run. I suspect one major reason he chose not to run again was because he filed an amended return(s) after his loss in 2012 and didn't want to face the criticism of what he did or by not being willing to release those returns like Mr. Trump.

[hal]

vision63 wrote: The question is what methods would they have employed to pay "much" less taxes? The implication is that they would have employed nefarious methods. I see no evidence that would generate "no doubts." Warren Buffet and Michael Bloomberg offered to show off their taxes in a challenge to Trump too. If there were legal ways for the Clintons to reduce their taxes legally, then I'm sure they would have employed them. Why wouldn't they?

Because making $10M and paying 7% overall taxes would look horrible to the avg person. YES, I'm a cynic. I believe that the Clintons have done everything in their power in the last several years to make Hilary an electable person in 2016. There is nothing nefarious about NOT taking deductions that you are legally able to take.

[sekker]

hal wrote:
[quote=vision63]The question is what methods would they have employed to pay "much" less taxes? The implication is that they would have employed nefarious methods. I see no evidence that would generate "no doubts." Warren Buffet and Michael Bloomberg offered to show off their taxes in a challenge to Trump too. If there were legal ways for the Clintons to reduce their taxes legally, then I'm sure they would have employed them. Why wouldn't they?

Because making $10M and paying 7% overall taxes would look horrible to the avg person. YES, I'm a cynic. I believe that the Clintons have done everything in their power in the last several years to make Hilary an electable person in 2016. There is nothing nefarious about NOT taking deductions that you are legally able to take.
I'm totally confused. The Clintons have released their full tax records since some time in the 1990s. There is nothing new - or news worthy - here.

I also have absolutely nothing wrong with '...the Clintons have done everything in their power in the last several years to make Hilary an electable person in 2016.' Why is that a negative statement, written by a cynic? Wouldn't we WANT someone who plans to run for President to be on their best behavior for years before running?

As for Romney - it's clear his taxes were a liability in the public's eye. No way Trump will EVER release his.

[vision63]

hal wrote:
[quote=vision63]The question is what methods would they have employed to pay "much" less taxes? The implication is that they would have employed nefarious methods. I see no evidence that would generate "no doubts." Warren Buffet and Michael Bloomberg offered to show off their taxes in a challenge to Trump too. If there were legal ways for the Clintons to reduce their taxes legally, then I'm sure they would have employed them. Why wouldn't they?

Because making $10M and paying 7% overall taxes would look horrible to the avg person. YES, I'm a cynic. I believe that the Clintons have done everything in their power in the last several years to make Hilary an electable person in 2016. There is nothing nefarious about NOT taking deductions that you are legally able to take.
Exactly. Nothing to be ashamed of by abiding by the law. Taking whatever deductions that you're due. Doing so shouldn't even be questioned.

[Speedy]

The Clintons have released their returns since 1977. Those from most of the last ten years are on her website.