STEPHANOPOULOS: What is your tax rate? TRUMP: "None of your business."

[pnwmom]

http://www.politicususa.com/2016/05/13/trump-loses-temper-accidentially-reveals-release-tax-returns.html

George Stephanopoulos pushed back on all of Trump’s claims that he can’t release his tax returns until he the audit of his returns is finished. The wheels started to fall off for Trump when he was asked when he released his tax returns when applying for a casino license, but won’t do so when running for president. Trump answered, “Well, at the time it didn’t make any difference to me. Now it does.”

Stephanopoulos said that every candidate since 1976 has released his tax returns, and pointed out that voters can learn a lot from tax returns.

The Good Morning America host finally got an answer when he said that Trump’s financials don’t show his tax rate. Stephanopoulos asked Trump what is your tax rate? He answered, “It’s none of your business. You’ll see it when I release, but I fight very hard to pay as little tax as possible.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/voters-are-still-waiting-on-your-tax-returns-mr-trump/2016/07/19/c87c4054-4de1-11e6-a7d8-13d06b37f256_story.html

MELANIA TRUMP’S Monday night speech to the Republican National Convention was so platitudinous — a gauzy collection of assurances that her husband, Donald Trump, is “kind and fair and caring” and will “never, ever, let you down” — it could have been delivered by any spouse about any candidate. In fact, as has been widely reported, some of it had been delivered by a different spouse about a different candidate.

No matter. The information Americans lack about Mr. Trump concerns not his personality, which is all too evident, but his life’s work before entering politics — his business record and tax history. Mr. Trump constantly assures Americans that he built a “great company” and is worth $10 billion. He promises to bring his no-nonsense business sense to government, renegotiating trade deals, striking bargains with drug companies and streamlining the federal government. His gilded private jet has been a campaign prop. Yet his company, the Trump Organization, is a closely held private enterprise, with many of its dealings hidden from public view. Bits of information that have emerged suggest Mr. Trump has had some success licensing his name and starring on reality TV. But a variety of Mr. Trump’s business ventures, such as Trump University, appear to have been unethical, unprofitable or both. The story of his professional life is unacceptably incomplete.

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[pepperbear]

1. ...

he will have to produce them sooner or later, but the longer he holds off, the more he becomes the hero to his base, because when he does release them, he can blame his sudden acquiescence on the media, as in "always wasting time on trivialities like my tax returns".

fuckstick supreme.

[yeoman6987]

3. I bet he never provides them

He provided the financial disclosure form which is all that is required. He has set his own rules since day 1. That's what makes him so dangerous.

[hamsterjill]

5. I agree.

His supporters don't care, and he's not being pressed to provide them. It should be the first question of every interview.

Yes, he IS dangerous, and we must take nothing for granted.

[politicaljunkie41910]

4. He won't have to produce him because the media has already given him a free pass on everything.

Monday night after the Convention ended, Andrea Mitchell made a comment about there needing to be a whole lot of fact checking regarding a lot of things that had been said that evening, and then she and the others just laughed it off. Trump lies about everything, everyday and the media has allowed him to get away with it. I can't imagine what the presidential campaign of 2000 will look like because no candidate will ever be required to tell the truth, turn over tax returns, or talk like he or she is civilized to one another. The media has rewarded bad behavior, by allowing a candidate to call people names, be as crude as possible, call in shows for interviews, make a political ad on Utube and let the media run it over and over for FREE, and lie at will. Why shouldn't everyone use this formula in future election cycles? Future elections will never be civil again. It will be like those brawls you see on TV in foreign countries.

I hope that someone who works for the IRS, will accidently leak his information. The public deserves to know if we have a tax fraud this close to the White House.

[Angry Dragon]

2. You want proof?? -------- Don't hold your breath

He is playing the Romney card