In article >,
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>
> On 2016-11-13 7:48 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 11/13/2016 6:10 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> >> On 2016-11-13 2:55 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>
> >>>> You're missing the point, why would you vote for a draft dodger? I
> >>>> wouldn't, especially if that person got out of serving because their
> >>>> Daddy could afford to make sure life continued as normal for them.
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Your children are being educated by draft dodgers too. Teaching was a
> >>> popular college major to avoid the draft. Some of your doctors are
> >>> draft dodgers too. Do you avoid them also? Ministers?
> >>
> >>
> >> Think of it the way Trump explained how he could make billions of
> >> dollars and not have to pay tax. He was smarter than the guys who
> >> went. Hmmm...tax evader and draft evader. It is a good thing for him
> >> and his apparent willingness to swing a big stick that there are people
> >> willing to enlist and others willing to pay taxes to pay for them to
> >> serve.
> >
> > He followed the law, like it or not. The law needs changing.
>
> Apparently he did follow the law. The fact that a man can "lose" enough
> money to not have to pay income tax for years and years and still be a
> billionaire should indicate that the law needs to be changed. He used a
> loophole to avoid paying income tax

If he ever reveals his tax files (as if!) you'll be able to see how he
managed to "lose" the money. It may be legal, but other people are
paying the price for the "loss", in the promised jobs that never
happened, the contracts that were cancelled, the trade opportunities
that never happened.

Here in Scotland we already know, from his two golf course
developments. He lied about the land value, his investment, and the
potential income from them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...le-of-foreign-
experience-a-scottish-golf-course-losing-millions/2016/06/22/12ae9cb0-
1883-11e6-9e16-2e5a123aac62_story.html

"But to many people in Scotland, his course here has been a failure.
Over the past decade, Trump has battled with homeowners, elbowed his way
through the planning process, shattered relationships with elected
leaders and sued the Scottish government. On top of that, he has yet to
fulfill the lofty promises he made.

Trump has also reported to Scottish authorities that he lost millions of
dollars on the project ? even as he claims on U.S. presidential
disclosure forms that the course has been highly profitable.

Trump?s original plan: a sprawling resort in the ancestral home of golf
with two courses, a 450-room luxury hotel and spa, a conference center,
employee housing, a turf-grass research center and a holiday community
with hundreds of villas, condos and homes. The project would pump
millions of dollars into the local economy and create 6,000 jobs ? maybe
even 7,000 jobs, Trump said at one news conference. Tourists would
travel here from around the world, he promised, along with well-known
celebrities such as Scottish actor Sean Connery.

Today, the Trump International Golf Links near Aberdeen employs 150
people and consists of one golf course that meanders through the sand
dunes, a clubhouse with a restaurant and 19 rooms for rent in a
renovated mansion and former carriage house. There is also a maintenance
facility and a road running through the property. Lonely and desolate,
the resort has attracted no major tournaments, and neighbors say the
parking lot is rarely, if ever, full."

"Trump has provided starkly contradictory portraits of the financial
health of his golf course here, along with two other projects in the
region.

According to reports filed with the British government, Trump said the
Aberdeen course has lost more than 4.71 million pounds since 2012 ? the
equivalent of $6.9 million at current exchange rates. British
authorities were told that the course lost 1.14 million pounds, or about
$1.67 million, in 2014 alone.

Yet in a July 2015 disclosure filed with the U.S. Office of Government
Ethics, Trump valued Aberdeen at ?over $50 million? and put his income
from the course at $4.2 million between mid-2014 and the end of 2015.

A similar pattern holds for records filed for his Turnberry golf resort
on Scotland?s west coast, which he will also visit this week, and at a
third Trump course in Ireland?s County Clare ? millions in losses
reported in overseas records, millions in profits reported on U.S.
forms."

There's lots more, read it and weep. Those poor buggers in the rust
belt have been taken in,just like Scotland was. What you're in line for,
is more of the same, fantasy promises, fantasy employment, and a fantasy
economy.

Janet