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    • KapteinB
      Top reader this weekReading streakScoutScribe
      3 years ago

      This is a long read, but an important one.

      Most of us were wondering what exactly Trump was trying to hide when he refused to release his tax returns in 2016. Was it something incriminating? Something humiliating? Both?

      Well, here they are, we finally know. Turns out the biggest reveal of this whole thing is that Trump is a lousy businessman, and most ventures he's directly involved with end up losing huge amounts of money. Many of us suspected as much, but now we know. The other things revealed here; the tax evasion, nepotism, and corruption, that's just par for the course for the wealthy.

      And that's another reason why this is an important read: Even if you like and support Trump, even if you thinks it's fine for the president of the USA to be a corrupt nepotistic failure of a businessman as long as he shares your view on abortion or whatever, even if you think it's OK for unknown people and entities to have $400 million leverage over the most powerful man in the world, you should still read this article to get some more insight into how the rich use tax loopholes to avoid contributing to society. That's not a Trump problem, it's a tax code problem.

      Heck, if you're one of Trump's MAGA-hat-wearing cultists, download that browser extension that lets you replace words in a website, replace "Trump" with "Clinton" and tell me this article is not absolutely infuriating. Removing tax loopholes for the rich should be a bipartisan goal.