Donald Trump has paid no income tax for 10 of the last 15 years

He's in a bind now and his social and public media history is nibbling at his ass constantly.
On one hand he's calling it fake news based on illegally obtained information. If it's been illegally obtained then it has to be real surely?
In the debates when Hilary accused him of paying no tax he said that was because he was smart so he was admitting to tax avoidance at the minimum.
The biggest quandary he faces though is that his claim that he's a brilliant business person. If he's filing losses from all his businesses to avoid tax then he either has to go against his ego and say he is rubbish at running a business or he admits to fabricating his income to the IRS and committing tax fraud rather than avoidance.
Given all the tax he has paid outside the US in places governed by autocratic leaders he'll also be under investigation from a counter-intelligence point as to what leverage some people and countries have over him.

Either he is a rubbish businessman or guilty of tax evasion :)
 
I always think in conversations like this it's worth repeating the following, well-trodden, stat:

A million seconds is 12 days.
A billion seconds is 31 years

The difference between million and billion is enormous. Nobody deserves to be, or should even be able to be, a billionaire and when someone that rich fiddles their taxes to save money, well that's just obscene. Nobody who comes from where we all do should be defending such people.

Isn't a billionaire someone who has 1000 million, whereas your example is taking a billion as a million millions?
 
There's a Presidential historian called John Meacham and he pointed out that in 1968, George Wallace got 13% of the popular vote with a racist campaign. Trump got 46% in 2016. For a lot of Americans, they simply don't care about politics and will probably think Trump has done nothing wrong and will continue to support him based on what they've been told he is, not what they've determined him to be through their own analysis.
The same could be said for the mantra of the Tories being good with money and delivering Brexit. The reality of what else they are up to won't register with a lot of voters.
 
Isn't a billionaire someone who has 1000 million, whereas your example is taking a billion as a million millions?

1,000,000 seconds = 11.574074074074074 days * 1000 = 11.574 days, divided by 365 = 31.709791983764586 years.

Near enough, not counting leap years.

If you accrued £1 per second it would take you 4,153,983 years to garner as much as Jeff Bezos is worth now.

I'm sure he worked hard for it.

Just run that past Mrs Gnome. She said "hm, is he married?"
 
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There's a Presidential historian called John Meacham and he pointed out that in 1968, George Wallace got 13% of the popular vote with a racist campaign. Trump got 46% in 2016. For a lot of Americans, they simply don't care about politics and will probably think Trump has done nothing wrong and will continue to support him based on what they've been told he is, not what they've determined him to be through their own analysis.
The same could be said for the mantra of the Tories being good with money and delivering Brexit. The reality of what else they are up to won't register with a lot of voters.

It's really all about our evolution, how we have evolved to navigate through our universe in the most efficient way we can as a species as well as our individual genetic disposition.

We are not homo sapiens (wise men), but pan narrans ie the story telling chimp. Every decision we make, consciously or unconsciously, involves us telling ourselves a story predicting the future. The problem is the information going in is tainted and imperfect and the shortcuts we have developed to deal with this need to be constantly reviewed, but our own internal narratives about ourselves (biases) that get us through the day and our whole life, may well conflict with individual decisions and lose out (cognitive dissonance).
 
hoping this is the tipping point, when even some of his loyal supported realise he is taking the pish and what despicable human being he is, but who knows
 
I said 5 years ago, if he wins there will be civil unrest at some point, he'll ruin parts of the country in a seemingly senseless act of cultural vandalism and will ultimately commit crimes lose his second term and end up spending the rest of his life either besieged by legal battles or more likely behind bars.

I'm sticking by that prediction
 
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