How to run for president and get richer.

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Many people run for political office and wind up being poorer due to campaign debt.

The Donald has figured out a way to run for office and make a profit. When he can only stays in Trump properties and has campaign offices in Trump properties. He then charges the campaign an exorbitant amount for the privilege of using the facilities paid for by donors to the campaign. He does the same with his jet and now with his books.
WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump used small donors’ money to buy nearly $300,000 worth of books from the publisher of his Art of the Deal last month, continuing a pattern of plowing campaign money back into his own businesses.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tru ... 44efa4e7c4

I remember when Jim Wright had to resign from Speaker of the House and Congress over a similar book deal. The Republicans had a hissy fit over the deal and forced him to resign. Oh how times have changed.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.-Huxley
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." ~ Louis Brandeis,

Re: How to run for president and get richer.

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Obviously you missed the point of all this. He is a business genius. He even found a way to legally avoid taxes. The fact that he lost a billion dollars is ignored, as what kind of business genius would lose a billion dollars? But ask any of his supporters. He is a genius.
And he speaks his mind, even when he contradicts himself, he speaks only the truth. Ask any of his supporters. They are the ones with vacant stares and are drooling like rabid dogs.
He lost a billion dollars. $1,000,000,000.

http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/20 ... incom.html
"Mr. Trump is a highly-skilled businessman who has a fiduciary responsibility to his business, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required, the statement said. "That being said, Mr. Trump has paid hundreds of millions of dollars in property taxes, sales and excise taxes, real estate taxes, city taxes, state taxes, employee taxes and federal taxes, along with very substantial charitable contributions."

"Mr. Trump knows the tax code far better than anyone who has ever run for President and he is the only one that knows how to fix it," the campaign added.
How many lies can you count in the above quote?
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Re: How to run for president and get richer.

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dougb wrote:He is a genius.
How many lies can you count in the above quote?
not exactly. his attorney and accountant are the "geniuses", know the rules, and how to exploit them. trump himself is just smart enough to hire them. it's not that hard when you've got daddy's millions to start with. this is not so much a commentary about how smart trump is, but about how messed-up our tax codes are.
i'm retired. what's your excuse?

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