Discussion: Paul Ryan Brushes Off Trump's 1995 Tax Return: It's Not 'That Harmful'

It’s just a flesh wound!

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…then he grabbed his Wolfie doll and curled into a fetal position.

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Come back 'ere I’ll bite your kneecaps off!

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Ryan continued, “Lots of my best friends and biggest donors never pay any taxes, and I’m working hard to ensure that the ones who are still paying taxes never have to do it again.”

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Ryan: All the genius businessmen I know bankrupt their companies — numerous times. If he could do it to the country, well, all the better.

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Really, media? Why on Earth would anyone care what off-point tripe this moral coward recommends about the monster certainly eating his but only potentially America’s future…

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“I haven’t seen his tax returns, so I don’t know the details,”

Yeah. That’s kind of the problem. Nobody has.

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His heroine, Ayn Rand, also ended up bankrupt and living off the public teat.

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Listening to NPR in the car last night, and caught this broadcast: https://www.marketplace.org/2016/10/03/world/trumps-return-reveals-real-estate-tax-benefits

This flagrant exploitation of the tax code is by design.

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What an inconvenient yet hilarious fact

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Ryan said that net operating losses are “extremely common.”

Uhhh… the tax return was Donald’s personal tax return, not a corporation’s. It is extremely common for an individual to report a billion dollar loss? Please.

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And I call bullshit on Paul Ryan. Four years ago, he and his running mate, romney, were going around the country calling people who didn’t pay taxes “takers” and “moochers”. Now, because it’s a republican, it’s “not harmful.” I hope every single one of these hypocritical republicans who were complaining about poor people, who didn’t make enough money to pay taxes, choke on trump’s returns! And I want reporters to shove microphones in their faces every day until the election and ask them why they think it’s okay for a presidential candidate to not contribute to this country. And on election night, I want microphones shoved into every republican’s face who supported/endorsed trump. Don’t let them hide when trump loses.

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Eff you, Paulie. You could’ve saved your Party/Country but instead you reveal that you are a craven ninny.

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Genuflecting to the glorious Trump has retightened Paul’s aging abs…

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As usual, Ryan puts his subservience to wealth on display. Nothing new here.

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Compared to the other hundred or so self-inflicted fatal injuries, he’s right. Just one more, albeit really big, nail in the coffin. (… god I hope…!)

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