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2016 Postmortem

politicaljunkie41910

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20. I'm not condoning his actions, quite the contrary. I was just pointing out that a lot of people

Reply to Foggyhill (Reply #15)

Sun Oct 2, 2016, 03:47 PM

Oct 2016

appeared to not understand what was going on. They seemed to think that he had an almost billion dollar loss and that was the end of it. I was merely pointing out that he continued to benefit from that loss for at least 18 years by not having to pay federal taxes on other earned income during that timeframe which the NY Times estimated could be as much as $50M a year. I think its outrageous.

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CNN headline is $916 million dollar loss [View all] helpisontheway Oct 2016 OP

Gonna be a torrent of tweets. eom saltpoint Oct 2016 #1

Twitter and lots of other sites are going nuts shenmue Oct 2016 #2

Does the Times have more returns? C_U_L8R Oct 2016 #3

No... Princess Turandot Oct 2016 #8

I could see Trump throwing a saltpoint Oct 2016 #4

Oh my! How embarrassing. Glimmer of Hope Oct 2016 #5

Mark Cuban will mercilously hammer Trump C_U_L8R Oct 2016 #12

Lol vadermike Oct 2016 #6

The biggest loser BeyondGeography Oct 2016 #7

Heh! BlancheSplanchnik Oct 2016 #9

When I lose, I lose bigly! Believe me! n/t susanna Oct 2016 #11

Its a brutal article if you read it Doctor Jack Oct 2016 #10

You are the one who's going to flip out because it's more likely than not that he has recouped politicaljunkie41910 Oct 2016 #13

Well, I don't think people are seeing this positively since we don't have the rest of tax return Foggyhill Oct 2016 #15

I'm not condoning his actions, quite the contrary. I was just pointing out that a lot of people politicaljunkie41910 Oct 2016 #20

Can we send him an Android phone by courier, in case KAC confiscated his? Maru Kitteh Oct 2016 #14

This is where Trump interrupts by leaning into his mic... Beartracks Oct 2016 #16

Loser the biggest loser. awake Oct 2016 #17

Exactly...I think the thing that will bother helpisontheway Oct 2016 #19

You might as well say he lost 1 billion dollars......... UCmeNdc Oct 2016 #18

He's infamous. nt BootinUp Oct 2016 #21