Trump's Tax Returns

[pnewton]

But he is not above the law. The President is certainly in his right to challenge the law, a law designed to prevent abuse of power by the president, but if he does not abide by the decision of the Supreme Court, if it goes that far, it could lead to civil strife, as the military is sworn to uphold the Constitution, not the President.

How this plays out will be more evidence as to how President Trump priorities his duty to the country and his sense of self-preservation.

We all know this is a political ploy. The question is what the voters will determine this reveals about Congress, and what they determine it reveals about Trump.

 

[JonNC]

JonNC:

How about these:

1. he has done nothing to balance the budget by cutting spending not related to the enumerated powers.
2. he has permitted the continued existence of the Department of Education
3. he hasn’t secured to southern border by redeploying troops there from Places unneeded since the Democrats won’t approve funding for a wall.

A good start?

A good start at being completely unrelated to my post, yes.

What’s more sad and pathetic is that Trump’s followers refuse to allow anyone to disagree with anything he says or does without calling it “hatred.”

Do the things I mentioned not fit into the category of ”anything”?
I’ll wait for Trump followers to criticize them.

 

[RuthAnne]

But he is not above the law.

No president is, yet I’m 50 years old and not one president in my lifetime has honored his oath. They ALL act as if they are above the law. Every one of them.

 

[robertmidwest]

Abortion in the US peaked under Reagan and Bush I. It fell under Clinton, Bush II, Obama, and probably continues to fall under Trump.

Does this include RU-486 and morning after pills?

 

[MikeInVA]

The President is certainly in his right to challenge the law, a law designed to prevent abuse of power by the president, but if he does not abide by the decision of the Supreme Court, if it goes that far, it could lead to civil strife, as the military is sworn to uphold the Constitution, not the President.

There are some major “if’s” in your statement, and no evidence that the President would not abide by a Supreme Court decision.

 

[RuthAnne]

Decisions of the USSC do not constitute law.

 

[Theo520]

We are in a full-blown constitutional crisis right now.

lol, I’m reminded of a famous movie line, just substitute “hyperbole” in for “napalm”

“I love the smell of napalm in the morning.”

But seriously, that’s why we have SCOTUS (resolve what’s constitutional). So far they seem to be ruling that Trump has been acting lawfully, the reverse of what Obama encountered under SCOTUS review.

 

[pnewton]

Decisions of the USSC do not constitute law.

There were many in the pre-civil rights South that agreed with you following Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka. Yet case law is a part of our legal system, as it was part of English common law. I do not care for it very much either, but short of a new Constitution, this is the law of the land.

But in this case, there is also the legislation Congress passed in 1924 in the wake of Warren G. Harding.

 

[MikeInVA]

but short of a new Constitution, this is the law of the land.

There’s nothing wrong with the Constitution. The issue as I see it is that Congress has allowed court rulings to fill the void when the Supreme Court strikes down laws. For example, there is no federal law allowing abortion; only the Roe vs. Wade decision that certain laws were unconstitutional. Conceptually, a law should have been passed that legalized abortion, but such a law could have been challenged in the Supreme Court, so abortion exists as not-illegal rather than legal.

 

[JonNC]

pnewton:

but short of a new Constitution, this is the law of the land.

There’s nothing wrong with the Constitution. The issue as I see it is that Congress has allowed court rulings to fill the void when the Supreme Court strikes down laws. For example, there is no federal law allowing abortion; only the Roe vs. Wade decision that certain laws were unconstitutional. Conceptually, a law should have been passed that legalized abortion, but such a law could have been challenged in the Supreme Court, so abortion exists as not-illegal rather than legal.

And it should have happened at the state level,since the constitution provides no enumerated power to the general government on the topic.

 

[DENNYINMI]

President Trump’s businesses lost nearly $1.2 billion between 1985 and 1994, according to the New York Times, citing Internal Revenue Service transcripts.

In 1990 and 1991 alone, according to the Times, Trump’s business losses exceeded $250 million each year, more than twice those of the nearest taxpayer in the IRS information for the two years.

The documents indicates he lost so much money during that decade that he avoided paying income tax for eight of the 10 years, according to the Times, although it was unclear whether the IRS asked him to make change after audits……………………………………………….

He deals in big business and big money so his losses if any will be big too, I get that.

But what gets me is the lies more than anything else. To portray yourself as someone whom you are not and even attempt to relay a feeling of understanding, a frustration with paying Uncle Sam when you haven’t paid anything in 8 years out of 10…I can’t respect that.

He might have still been electable because the conservative base has proven they know he’s no angel, and they do not care.

The lying gets me though. When the kid doesn’t want to hand over the piece of paper he’s passing around the classroom to the teacher it was almost always bad. What else is he lying about?

 

[7_Sorrows]

angel12:

Yes, but some think the law doesn’t apply to them.

We are in a full-blown constitutional crisis right now.

The President and his followers believe that laws and the very US Constitution does not apply to him. It’s frightening.

Yawn…the rest of us just want our lives to
return to normal. The democrats did enough damage the last 2 1/2 years with their bitter
divisiveness and whining about everything.
They just can’t let it go and move on because they continue to be defeated and humiliated so they want everyone else to be as miserable as they are!

 

[FirstFiveEighth]

I think we should all be wary of passing laws to go after one man. Democrats around the country are feverishly rewriting laws to score temporary political points. California just passed an unconstitutional bill to keep Trump off the ballot by saying anyone running for office has to disclose 6yrs of tax returns to try and force Trump to release his. This is ridiculous. Do we really want to live in a country where the government has the power to forcefully disclose any citizen’s private finances or other records to the public for political reasons? This is nothing more than legalized doxing. If the Dems want to start this ball rolling, what is to stop Republicans from forcing all the Democrat leadership from disclosing whatever private info they don’t want to disclose the next time they take the House? “For the public good”. The public does not have the right to know the personal details about someone just because they are an elected official, and it should stay that way.

 

[ConcernedConvert]

I predict that President Trump will go down as the best president I will ever see in my lifetime.

 

[Theo520]

Probably as much as Clinton’s emails.

NOPE
HRC’s emails were govt property and should have been accessible via FOIA.

But she set up her home server explicitly to avoid legal oversight on her communications.

 

[Theo520]

Don’t you understand the tax issue of when profits and losses are recognized.

One can be growing in wealth yet still have income losses on the taxes. The reverse is also true.

 

[dvdjs]

Abortion rates are falling because

Most people attribute falling abortion rates to improved access to contraception. Has there been any study provides evidence to support the causal relationship that you claim?

 

[dvdjs]

Does this include RU-486 and morning after pills?

My reference is CDC numbers. CDC tracks abortion by method type: surgical abortion, intrauterine instillation, medical [nonsurgical] abortion, or hysterectomy/hysterotomy. It stipulates to some challenges in data gathering, but notes reports that:

Despite challenges in capturing medical abortions for reporting… a comparison of CDC data with mifepristone sales data … suggests that CDC’s Abortion Surveillance System accurately describes the use of early medical abortion relative to other abortion methods in the United States …

Abortion Surveillance --- United States, 2015

Since 1969, CDC has conducted abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal abortion in the United States.

www.cdc.gov

 

[dvdjs]

Decisions of the USSC do not constitute law.

They do not constitute statute but may constitute case law.

HRC’s emails were govt property

Some were.

 

[DENNYINMI]

Don’t you understand the tax issue of when profits and losses are recognized.

One can be growing in wealth yet still have income losses on the taxes. The reverse is also true.

No, I don’t.

Why report inflated revenue and net worth publicly, but your federal filings say otherwise?

Could you explain that.