Thank you Madcow for Proving Trump Pays Generous Taxes!

[Claudette]

I can understand her wanting to report on it, but she would have done her viewers a service by downplaying it's significance when she made the original Twitter announcement. Now she comes across as nothing more than a ratings whore.

I agree and it was a 2005 tax return. If she got that one she should have gotten the one for last year.

Hope they find out who leaked it to that stupid bitch.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Her build up to the reveal, reminded me of Geraldo's Al Capone's vault show.
LMAO!

 

[Geaux4it]

Generous? He paid what he owed, just like everyone else. It was not generosity.

Hey, WinterBrosky, according to the IRS, we all VOLUNTARILY pay our taxes, so I think most of us middle class and above types are pretty damned generous, no?

Voluntarily? When my 2nd wife screwed up our taxes, the letters I got from the IRS threatened to take everything but my name. There are people in prison for tax evasion. Paying our taxes is certainly not voluntary.

That's what you get when you let him do the taxes

-Geaux

 

[WinterBorn]

Generous? He paid what he owed, just like everyone else. It was not generosity.

He only "owed" it because Government says he does.

It is morally wrong for ANYONE to confiscate your property.

It is morally wrong for one group of citizens to vote themselves a portion of another citizen's income.

Indeed it is. That does not, however, change the fact that our gov't takes a portion of our salary and adds to the cost of virtually everything by the use of force.

 

[Camp]

Only the brainwashed cultist and suckers don't realize the returns marked "client copy" were not leaked by trump as a deflection in an attempt to interfere with all the lousy news about all the messes he has made lately.

 

[Iceweasel]

Looks like Maddcow stepped on her dick.

 

[Iceweasel]

Only the brainwashed cultist and suckers don't realize the returns marked "client copy" were not leaked by trump as a deflection in an attempt to interfere with all the lousy news about all the messes he has made lately.

What messes?

 

[JimBowie1958]

Lol, Madcow really scooped the pooper with this one, roflmao.

Twitter Just SHREDDED Rachel Maddow Over Trump Tax Return 'Story'

MSNBC's unapologetic liberal “journalist” Rachel Maddow lit the internet on fire Tuesday night when she teased via Twitter that she’d gotten her hands on President Donald Trump’s tax returns – a scoop that would have been pretty juicy, considering Trump never released his tax returns during the presidential campaign as all other modern-era presidents have done....

If only it'd been true.

What Maddow and the fine folks over at MSNBC actually managed to do was get part of a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return. Which was already 12 years old. And which the White House had already released.

And which the Wall Street Journal had already reported on – a year ago.

Needless to say, the Twittersphere wasn’t all too happy as Maddow droned on...and on...and on during her open monologue, bashing Trump (and throwing out all manner of random, unsubstantiated speculations regarding his finances) without actually giving anyone any new information.
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Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow

On her Tuesday show, Rachel Maddow teased a scoop: She had Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns. It was the first time his federal returns would be released.

Small digression: MSNBC's Maddow didn't have them. Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston got them, and went on her show to talk about it.

Anyway, when she finally revealed what was in the taxes, it was not a huge deal. Trump earned about $150 million in income in 2005, and paid $38 million in taxes, thanks to the alternative minimum tax, which he wants to kill.


This gives Trump an effective tax rate of about 24 percent, which Johnston pointed out was roughly equal to what he and his wife, who are an upper middle class couple, pay.

And, sure, for a billionaire, you can argue that he should pay more in taxes. But, $38 million is a big number. As is $150 million in income.
​

Report: Trump’s 2005 Taxes Revealed

The documents show Trump and his wife Melania paying $5.3 million in regular federal income tax—a rate of less than 4% However, the Trumps paid an additional $31 million in the “alternative minimum tax,” or AMT. Trump has previously called for the elimination of this tax.

“Before being elected President, Mr. Trump was one of the most successful businessmen in the world with a responsibility to his company, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required,” the White House said in a statement. “That being said, Mr. Trump paid $38 million dollars even after taking into account large scale depreciation for construction, on an income of more than $150 million dollars, as well as paying tens of millions of dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes and employment taxes and this illegally published return proves just that.”

Trump’s 2005 return also shows that he’d continued to benefit from the roughly $916 million loss he reported in his 1995 return—published last year by The New York Times. Using a loophole Congress closed in 1996, Trump converted that loss into a tax credit for the same amount he could offset against income.
​

All that hype to merely confirm what everyone already knew?

Leave it to Madcow!

So like a Con, just make shit up.

My quoting several different articles written by other people hardly constitutes ME making anything up, dear.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Lol, Madcow really scooped the pooper with this one, roflmao.

Twitter Just SHREDDED Rachel Maddow Over Trump Tax Return 'Story'

MSNBC's unapologetic liberal “journalist” Rachel Maddow lit the internet on fire Tuesday night when she teased via Twitter that she’d gotten her hands on President Donald Trump’s tax returns – a scoop that would have been pretty juicy, considering Trump never released his tax returns during the presidential campaign as all other modern-era presidents have done....

If only it'd been true.

What Maddow and the fine folks over at MSNBC actually managed to do was get part of a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return. Which was already 12 years old. And which the White House had already released.

And which the Wall Street Journal had already reported on – a year ago.

Needless to say, the Twittersphere wasn’t all too happy as Maddow droned on...and on...and on during her open monologue, bashing Trump (and throwing out all manner of random, unsubstantiated speculations regarding his finances) without actually giving anyone any new information.
​

Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow

On her Tuesday show, Rachel Maddow teased a scoop: She had Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns. It was the first time his federal returns would be released.

Small digression: MSNBC's Maddow didn't have them. Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston got them, and went on her show to talk about it.

Anyway, when she finally revealed what was in the taxes, it was not a huge deal. Trump earned about $150 million in income in 2005, and paid $38 million in taxes, thanks to the alternative minimum tax, which he wants to kill.


This gives Trump an effective tax rate of about 24 percent, which Johnston pointed out was roughly equal to what he and his wife, who are an upper middle class couple, pay.

And, sure, for a billionaire, you can argue that he should pay more in taxes. But, $38 million is a big number. As is $150 million in income.
​

Report: Trump’s 2005 Taxes Revealed

The documents show Trump and his wife Melania paying $5.3 million in regular federal income tax—a rate of less than 4% However, the Trumps paid an additional $31 million in the “alternative minimum tax,” or AMT. Trump has previously called for the elimination of this tax.

“Before being elected President, Mr. Trump was one of the most successful businessmen in the world with a responsibility to his company, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required,” the White House said in a statement. “That being said, Mr. Trump paid $38 million dollars even after taking into account large scale depreciation for construction, on an income of more than $150 million dollars, as well as paying tens of millions of dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes and employment taxes and this illegally published return proves just that.”

Trump’s 2005 return also shows that he’d continued to benefit from the roughly $916 million loss he reported in his 1995 return—published last year by The New York Times. Using a loophole Congress closed in 1996, Trump converted that loss into a tax credit for the same amount he could offset against income.
​

All that hype to merely confirm what everyone already knew?

Leave it to Madcow!

Jim, isn't it fascinating as you go down your thread, that some on the left are so used to responding with propaganda , that even though any logical person can see this is another SNAFU for the left, they try and spin it as a political victory?

They are getting seriously pathetic, and why should the networks create sitcoms when they have the farcical left to report on everyday for Americans to laugh at without spending a nickel!


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The root inability for any ideologue to see the humor in their pratfalls is that they can never ever admit to being wrong, which is the root of this sort of humor, some fool being spectacularly wrong.

So all they have left is to try to pretend that it wasnt a mistake at all, but in fact a win that only the wisest of people can actually perceive and comprehend.

 

[MindWars]

Lol, Madcow really scooped the pooper with this one, roflmao.

Twitter Just SHREDDED Rachel Maddow Over Trump Tax Return 'Story'

MSNBC's unapologetic liberal “journalist” Rachel Maddow lit the internet on fire Tuesday night when she teased via Twitter that she’d gotten her hands on President Donald Trump’s tax returns – a scoop that would have been pretty juicy, considering Trump never released his tax returns during the presidential campaign as all other modern-era presidents have done....

If only it'd been true.

What Maddow and the fine folks over at MSNBC actually managed to do was get part of a copy of Trump’s 2005 tax return. Which was already 12 years old. And which the White House had already released.

And which the Wall Street Journal had already reported on – a year ago.

Needless to say, the Twittersphere wasn’t all too happy as Maddow droned on...and on...and on during her open monologue, bashing Trump (and throwing out all manner of random, unsubstantiated speculations regarding his finances) without actually giving anyone any new information.
​

Op-Ed: Donald Trump just got a nice victory, thanks, of all people, to Rachel Maddow

On her Tuesday show, Rachel Maddow teased a scoop: She had Donald Trump's 2005 tax returns. It was the first time his federal returns would be released.

Small digression: MSNBC's Maddow didn't have them. Investigative reporter David Cay Johnston got them, and went on her show to talk about it.

Anyway, when she finally revealed what was in the taxes, it was not a huge deal. Trump earned about $150 million in income in 2005, and paid $38 million in taxes, thanks to the alternative minimum tax, which he wants to kill.


This gives Trump an effective tax rate of about 24 percent, which Johnston pointed out was roughly equal to what he and his wife, who are an upper middle class couple, pay.

And, sure, for a billionaire, you can argue that he should pay more in taxes. But, $38 million is a big number. As is $150 million in income.
​

Report: Trump’s 2005 Taxes Revealed

The documents show Trump and his wife Melania paying $5.3 million in regular federal income tax—a rate of less than 4% However, the Trumps paid an additional $31 million in the “alternative minimum tax,” or AMT. Trump has previously called for the elimination of this tax.

“Before being elected President, Mr. Trump was one of the most successful businessmen in the world with a responsibility to his company, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required,” the White House said in a statement. “That being said, Mr. Trump paid $38 million dollars even after taking into account large scale depreciation for construction, on an income of more than $150 million dollars, as well as paying tens of millions of dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes and employment taxes and this illegally published return proves just that.”

Trump’s 2005 return also shows that he’d continued to benefit from the roughly $916 million loss he reported in his 1995 return—published last year by The New York Times. Using a loophole Congress closed in 1996, Trump converted that loss into a tax credit for the same amount he could offset against income.
​

All that hype to merely confirm what everyone already knew?

Leave it to Madcow!

She is a such lying skank i can't stand that hypocritical bitch