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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Simple. He's a lying liar who lies. And gullible people believe him.[/quote]
I'm not even sure that they believe him...I think they just don't care.  It's truly mystifying.[/quote]

I don't care.

Why should I care what's in his tax returns?

I already know he's a billionaire who is probably taking all kinds of crazy deductions unavailable to the common man or woman.  I would ASSUME he's maxing deductions and tax loopholes, that's one of the reasons he's a billionaire.  Paying as little as possible to the tax man is one of the strategies that helps rich people get that way and stay that way.

I don't need to see Trump's tax returns to assume he's doing all of that.   In terms of "I don't care," I would care if he wasn't maxing his tax deductions and loopholes since that would indicate he isn't too smart.

In terms of is he or is he not a tax cheat, I'm going to have to assume that whether or not there are any on-going audits, that the IRS would audit his returns if it thinks it needs to, and if he's suspected of committing a crime, refer it to the Justice Department.  Not my job, not your job, I'm certainly not competent to review someone else's tax return and determine what it means, and most likely, neither are you.[/quote]

Does the lack of transparency bother you?  What is he hiding?  We've had other wealthy candidates and presidents, most of whom took advantage of all the tax deductions and loopholes they could, and they released their tax returns.

Not only is Trump possibly hiding something, but he's made excuses and promises to show his tax returns and then hasn't.  Just like he was going to hold a press conference about his conflict of interests in business and how he was going to address that.  And then he didn't.

So strange that a country preoccupied with the honesty and integrity of Hillary Clinton will excuse all the lying, cheating, scheming and machinations of Trump.  What's at the bottom of it? [/quote]

1.  The lack of transparency bothers me not at all.  Tax returns are private.  It's his choice to disclose them as a political ploy or not and risk losing the election by not disclosing them.   Each of us can decide to vote for him or not based on the non-disclosure.  The point is, you can make the decision to vote for him, or not, based on the non-disclosure, and that completely negates the need to see the tax returns themselves.  You're free to ASSUME he's a tax cheat, and I'm free to ASSUME he's not.   Trump himself evidently believed that a sufficient number of people would ASSUME he is not a tax cheat so that he would be elected.  He was right.  You were wrong.  That was a political gamble that he took.  He won.   If more people cared about it, he'd have lost.  Any way you slice it, you don't actually need to see his tax returns at all.

2.  If Trump's failure to disclose the returns and excuses bothers you, you're free not to vote for him.  The problem here is not the tax returns at all--it's that the electorate wasn't as upset about his non-disclosure as you are.

3.  Trump didn't "lie, cheat, scheme" etc. by non-disclosure of his tax returns.  He exercised a legal right to keep them private.  In doing so, he took a real risk that he would lose the election because he failed to disclose his returns.  He won that particular gamble, which angers you, because not enough voters agreed that it's necessary to see his returns as a private citizen.

4.  The country was preoccupied with HRC's integrity because she premised her campaign on the proposition that Donald Trump was an evil man, the King of the Deplorables, and she was a shining example of upstanding moral integrity, at least in comparison to him.  Under the circumstances, that was a stupid mistake on her part.  She should have simply highlighted her government experience and policy differences with Trump, not tried to portray him as an ethically and morally evil guy.  That tactic backfired on her big time.  She has only herself to blame for the attention paid in the campaign to issues revolving her own integrity.[/quote]

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