Somehow this will be called patriotic

October 1, 2016 8:21 PM

Trump Tax Records Obtained by The Times Reveal He Could Have Avoided Paying Taxes for Nearly Two Decades “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 [Trump campaign] statement said... Mr. Trump’s refusal to make his tax returns public — breaking with decades of tradition in presidential contests — has emerged as a central issue in the campaign, with a majority of voters saying he should release them. (slyt)
posted by splitpeasoup (4 comments total)

I have to ask: the only reason you wouldn't take that write down over the next two hundred years is if you still had more losses to take in future years, right? Is that what this is hinting at? Because a single-year billion-dollar loss by Trump just doesn't surprise me at this point.
posted by wenestvedt at 8:28 PM on October 1, 2016

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posted by SansPoint at 8:29 PM on October 1, 2016 [3 favorites]

Welp, we all kind of knew it, but it's a different thing to actually know it.
posted by Artw at 8:31 PM on October 1, 2016

He ran a bunch of businesses into the ground and wrote off a billion dollars in losses. What a business genius. What a fucking patriot.
posted by Lyme Drop at 8:33 PM on October 1, 2016 [3 favorites]