New York Times Releasing Trump's Taxes Helped Expose A Lot of Hypocrites

I've sat back and watched people fight over the NYT releasing Trump's taxes from 1995, showing he didn't pay federal taxes as the result of a $916M loss. It is astounding how so many on both sides of the aisle who hate the tax code have exposed themselves as total hypocrites.

How many of you bitching about Trump have done everything you can to reduce your tax exposure (personal and business)? How many of you ask whomever prepares your taxes (personal and business) what and how many deductions you qualify for? What makes you think you can do everything you can to be at a zero tax burden but not him? The tax code that applies to Trump also applies to you and so does ALL the LEGAL loopholes.

You people complaining on both sides of the aisle are not only a bunch of hypocrites but stupid! If you want someone to blame, blame Washington for all the loopholes and escape hatches they wrote into the 80K page tax code. Blame yourselves for re-electing these people who have left their fingerprints all over the tax code. You do understand whatever Trump took advantage of #1 is LEGAL #2 the SOB's who wrote the loophole took advantage of it too (before he did) and #3 there is nothing saying you can't take advantage of it either! Spend the money get someone who really knows what they're doing to do your taxes. There are some tax-wizards out there who can get you your money back, reducing your tax burden as close to zero as possible and it's all 100% LEGAL. You're stupid if you prepare your own taxes. And no you do not need to hire an army of accountants and lawyers to do it, you just need to work your network of contacts and maybe that old phone book collecting dust somewhere in your home. There are some very good tax preparers out there who spend a fortune on the software they use to be up-to-date with the current code.

All of you bitching that you want to see Trump's taxes, how about you cough up your tax returns!? Let's see how much you're paying!? That means you Van Jones after the little hissy fit you threw...

...Let's see how much in taxes you're paying! Since you're so big on socialism and communism ranting to "share the wealth", you better be paying more than you're obligated! You better not have any deductions you hypocrite; and that goes for the rest of you bitching!

Simple solution to end all of this bickering is to abolish the 16th Amendment and institute a FLAT tax. No not a fair tax, because it will never be fair and open the door to attack the rich aka job creators. We go to a flat tax all the loopholes and lobbysists will go bye bye and everyone will be paying the same rate... that's the only way we will ever have a "fair tax"!

Oh one last thing, Sep 26th at the debate Hillary said Trump hasn't paid any taxes and what do you know a few days later the NYT comes out with that article. How did Hillary know? This just goes to show the collusion between the MSM (tv & print) and the DNC/ HRC!  

Hypocrite Obama Says Future Presidents Cannot Use His Logic on Executive Orders

Good luck if you can stomach listening to this hypocrite stumble justifying what he did with illegals is okay but future presidents would "absolutely not" be able to use that same logic on taxes.

We have Darth Hussein on tape saying repeatedly he didn't have the legal authority to go it alone. He is also on tape saying he gave the House every opportunity to pass the Senates amnesty bill. In the end he did what he wanted. Now if a future President goes down a similar path, as Stephanopoulos suggests, with regards to taxes they can't go it alone and issue an executive order?! Does this idiot understand the very rules and boundaries he is trying to set he just broke with his illegal executive action?!

Sorry Barry but you just set precedent for executive power and you cannot put limits on it. This is the power many have warned democrats would rue the day they sat back and allowed him to run loose unchallenged. Someday there will be a republican President and Congress who is going to take a page from obama. Hopefully that future President will pull an obama enraging the left and when he or she is interviewed they will cite Nov 20th 2014 as their justification for whatever EO they did. We Conservatives can only hope when and if that day comes such an EO would be for something meaningful and truly important to help this country not hurt it as obama has done time and again!

Paul Ryan Blasts IRS Commissioner: 'I Don't Believe You'

What more has to happen for criminal charges to be filed against anyone and everyone who has touched this case? What more has to be done for members of Congress to do their damn jobs coming to the decision that it is time to abolish the IRS? Ryan even admits that this agency destroys people's lives but where is the proposed bill to abolish the IRS replacing it with a Flat tax? For those thinking it, you do not want a "Fair Tax", it will be perverted like all other laws that were passed with good intents that have now been weaponized against us!

It's absurd that we have to keep records for 7 years back (in some cases even longer!) in case we are audited but the IRS can't keep 6 months of emails claiming a computer crash is the cause!? FYI just because a hard drive goes does not mean the email is gone!! If the emails are not even recoverable from the servers and backups that means SOMEONE went in and manually deleted those files!! Guess what people? We now have a scandal within a scandal and that means we will never get answers or have anyone held responsible!

A govt agency has willfully destroyed material evidence in a Congressional investigation where nothing will be done about it nor will anyone be held responsible! This country is so screwed.....

IRS Workers Who Did Not Pay Taxes Received Bonuses, Extra Time Off, and Raises

1000 IRS workers are tax dodgers and you can bet there will be no regime stormtroopers raiding their homes or surrounding their property with snipers to get those back taxes. This report, the documented abuse of power against conservatives along with all the news we have heard to date you would think it would be sufficient to get legislation moving to abolish the IRS move us to a flat tax. That of course will never happen even by those who claim to be on our side. The DC destroyers will never abolish the IRS because both sides of the progressive machine use this weaponized agency to punish their enemies. So when you have a few abusing the system who don't pay their taxes they shrug it off. If you or I fail to pay taxes well then be prepared to have your entire life turned inside out.

We get punished while the elites and their minions break the rules daily. Rewarding bad behavior is now a norm in the US, which obama has fast tracked under his promise of fundamental transformation.

Our Founders got to a breaking point from an abusive dictator over a number of issues and 1 tax, which in relation to today is quite trivial. So "we" got rid of one dictator and got ourselves 535+ dictators along with all the govt bureaucracy built to punish the people!

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IRS Awards Bonuses to 1100 Who Owe Back Taxes
by Stephen Ohlemacher | AP
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service has paid more than $2.8 million in bonuses to employees with recent disciplinary problems, including $1 million to workers who owed back taxes, a government investigator said Tuesday.

More than 2,800 workers got bonuses despite facing a disciplinary action in the previous year, including 1,150 who owed back taxes, said a report by J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration. The bonuses were awarded from October 2010 through December 2012.

George's report said the bonus program doesn't violate federal regulations, but it's inconsistent with the IRS mission to enforce tax laws.

"These awards are designed to recognize and reward IRS employees for a job well done, and that is appropriate, because the IRS should encourage good performance," George said. "However, while not prohibited, providing awards to employees who have been disciplined for failing to pay federal taxes appears to create a conflict with the IRS's charge of ensuring the integrity of the system of tax administration."

Other examples of misconduct by workers getting bonuses included misusing government credit cards for travel, drug use, violent threats and fraudulently claiming unemployment benefits...more