Will do

Be that as it may, I was skimming along Artfl’s last post when I came upon something I know about — a lot about — more than God intended man to kinow about — taxes.

What you said, Artfl, about the “hedge fund guys” that Trump is going to tax and Cruz isn’t is pure malarkey. The IRS has been recharacterizing income as ordinary instead of capital gain, as earned instead of unearned, as passive instead of active and active instead of passive, for longer than the almost 40 years I’ve been practicing lax law. Characterizing “carried interest” as ordinary rather than capital gains requires no statute and is not a “tax increase” that Cruz has pledged to stand in the schoolhouse door to prevent.

Besides which, real estate has its own tax loopholes aplenty, and you can mortgage your house that Donald will NOT eliminate those.

By revealing that you know nothing about taxes, you are indicating to me that you know little about your other subjects. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” — A. Lincoln

Trump myth and reality.

Also see this and this.

As for The Art of the Deal, Trump did not write it. Maybe you should vote for the actual author, Tony Schwartz, who tweets “I wrote the Art of the Deal. Donald Trump read it.”

Google Australian psychologist John Ray along with the Authority term to get some idea of the bigger picture.

Note how Cruz’s supporters compare with the “average Republican”

They actually score lower on authority, more libertarian is one respect, than the average Republican. Higher than average on “sanctity” but lower than average on respect for or attraction to, authority.

http://righteousmind.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Figure1_R.png

That is an interesting mix, psychologically speaking.

As it happens, I buy more cars than the average person and I can tell you that even crummy lots that get the bottom-of-the-barrel wholesale junk with reconstructed titles would not hire Trump. You have to be somewhat personable to be a car salesman.

If Trump gets elected, and turns out to be the disaster that we know is inevitable with a creature of his ilk given that level of power, are you going to do the Democrat thing and blame us for it? That things would have been splendid had he not been opposed from the beginning by us stupid small-government, constitutionalist troglodytes? I get that most of you new faces will be long gone, your paychecks for this work long since cashed and spent, but a few of you are regulars.

As opposed to someone who said, “I won, you shut up.”
Get back to us when he says, “After the election I’ll be more flexible.”

“do you really think Trump intends to build a wall, period?”
Well, according to a number of videos on youtube, he’s been saying that for several years. So, yeah, I think he’ll get the wall built.
And if he doesn’t — then we’ll be in the same place as Cruz or Rubio or Hillary wins the election. Because we *know* that none of them will build a wall.

So it’s like, heads we win, tails we don’t lose.

“except he’s a notoriously “expedient” deal-maker, which means that he has spent 50 years saying whatever it takes to make a sale.”
Um, have you bothered to read his book? The Art of the Deal came out in 1988. Full disclosure, I never read it until last month.
He doesn’t deal just to make a deal. He deals to make a GOOD deal. He has said and demonstrated over and over again that he’ll walk away from a bad deal.

“Seriously, people! How is this in any way difficult to comprehend? I wouldn’t buy a car from this guy.”

LOL. He doesn’t sell cars.
Is there anything that might make you question your assesment? ’cause he’s built and sold a whole hell of a lot of very expensive high-end real-estate.
So … either your assessment is wrong … or he has been pulling the wool over the eyes of a whole lot of extremely rich people for the last 30-40 years. I know which way I’d bet.

Just for grins I looked into the price for a one-night stay in the Chicago Trump Hotel. $500 per night.

From wikipedia:
Real estate
“Trump Tower”
Trump Tower in New York City
Trump Tower Baku, Azerbaijan (Completed)
Trump Tower Batumi, Georgia (planned)
Trump Tower Manila, Philippines (planned)
Trump Tower, Philadelphia, USA (planned, never built)
Trump Tower, Tampa, Florida, USA (incomplete, abandoned)
Trump Tower, White Plains, New York, USA
Trump Towers Charlotte, North Carolina, USA (proposed, never built)
Trump Towers Istanbul is a mixed-use building with two towers (39-storey and 37-storey) and a shopping mall in Istanbul, Turkey. Completed in 2010, it is the first Trump building in Europe.
Trump Towers, Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, USA
Trump Tower (Punta del Este, Uruguay), under construction

“Trump International Hotel and Tower”
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Dubai), never built
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Fort Lauderdale), the former name of an unfinished luxury condominium-hotel
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Honolulu)
Trump International Hotel and Tower (New Orleans), never built
Trump International Hotel and Tower (New York City)
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Toronto)
Trump International Hotel (Washington, D.C.) (under construction)
Trump International Hotel and Tower (Vancouver)

“Trump Plaza”
Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino is the now-closed 39-story Trump Plaza Atlantic City Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey built in 1984 by Trump Entertainment Resorts and Harrah’s Entertainment.
Trump Plaza (Palm Beach) is a pair of 32-story Residential Towers, located at 525 South Flagler Drive, West Palm Beach, Florida built in 1985.
Trump Plaza (New York City) is a 37-story residential tower, on Third Avenue between 61st and 62nd Streets, New York City, New York, built in 1984.
Trump Plaza (New Rochelle) is a 42-story residential tower under construction in New Rochelle, New York.
Trump Plaza (Jersey City) is a pair of 55-story and 50-story residential towers (latter under construction) in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Short name for Trump Plaza and Riverwalk, the name of the park surrounding Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)

Other Buildings
Trump Taj Mahal, in Atlantic City, New Jersey (now owned by others)
Trump World Tower, in New York City
The Trump Building, also in New York City
Trump International Hotel & Residence, in Phoenix, never built
Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower, in Panama City
Trump SoHo, hotel condominium in New York City
Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico, Tijuana (proposed, never built)
Trump Park Avenue, Manhattan
Trump Hotel Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Trump Parc, Stamford, Connecticut
Golden Nugget Atlantic City, formerly known as Trump Marina
Elite Tower, formally known as Trump Plaza Tower, and Trump Elite Tower, Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel (planned)

Golf
Trump International Golf Links and Hotel Ireland
Trump National Doral Miami
Trump National Golf Club (Bedminster)
Trump National Golf Club (Briarcliff Manor, New York)
Trump National Golf Club (Los Angeles)
Trump National Golf Club (Philadelphia)
Trump National Golf Club (Washington, D.C.)
Trump Turnberry, in Scotland

Candidates Ted Cruz and Hilary Clinton are the top recipients.

and

“The big issue this cycle is the carried interest loophole that allows hedge fund managers to count some of their income as capital gain, which is taxed at a lower rate,” Johnson said. The issue dogged 2012 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney because he benefited from it at Bain Capital, the financial firm where he made some of his fortune.

Hilary Clinton and Donald Trump are both on record wanting to close the “carried interest” loophole.

Real estate mogul Donald Trump ….. wants to crack down on an IRS loophole that allows hedge fund honchos to list their profits as “carried interest” instead of income. So these earnings are taxed as capital gains, which carry a top rate of 20%, plus a 3.8% surtax, instead of as wages, which currently have a top tax rate of 39.6%, plus a 2.9% Medicare tax.

“We’re going to be reducing taxes for the middle class, but for the hedge fund guys, they’re going to be paying up,” Trump said on CBS’ Face the Nation Sunday. ”

since ted cruz signed a policy statement on not raising taxes, he is off the list of those who favor the tax increase the comes from closing the carried forward loophole hedge fund people (like his wife) would then be subjected to… Trump is not subjected to it, nor is hillary either…

in signing the pledge he gets to look like “read my lips” but as with that, its not so…

thats it for me..
before neo or the people on the website hunt me down and get rid of me
i dont want to be swimming with the fishes…

no blert… they are paranoid that he will do what cruz will never do… his image already sucks, you cant tarnish tarnish.. cruz on the other hand has all that bankster stuff that does motivate people to go to the left. so the idea is get the impolite big mouth who will completely rag on hillaries stuff without care for a future he has already…

will cruz bring up benghazi and risk the left saying he hates women? after all, the left says that about trump despite his ex employees as women giving him a great review in terms of pay ane equality… but again, you cant tarnish tarnish, so that wont work with trump if he says it

will cruz bring up the lies about helicopter attacks and such? again, will cruz face the feminists yellng he hates women, and how would he combat that?

will cruz bring up the emails? and again, he is too pc to survive the anti woman thing…

so cruz is too pc to win against hillary
if he tries he will end up being more vilified for the sudden appearance of such behavior, or the lack of it in the face of wanting to remain clean.

then there is the trump promise of prosecuting hillary… does he mean it? will he? we dont know, do we… but cruz has made no un pc remark as to her ciminality… but trump has her and everyone off their feet on it… they dont know either.. (or like the thirteenth warrior said “they now have to calculate what htey dont know”)

for hillary and the left, if they take trump at his word, a loss is a criminal indictment… and if cruz wins, she is safe and so is all that evidence that would be open in court.

so guess what? they cant take a chance that trump will win and he will do what he said he would do… if so, then their doyen will end up incarcerated… that leaves the party leadership role in the hands of bernie.

trump basically called down the temple on himself much like samson did for delilah… and they are really quacking in their pants as there is a ton of stuff that a whistleblowing president can do to the lefts machine if he is un pc enough to actually do it!!!!

cruz is way too establishment..

its as truthful as mao (and lenin) liberalizations that were used to find dissidents. everyone wanted to believe they moved to a more moderate stance but it was to bring the people they wanted out into the light… so when talking socialists or communists of the leadership kind, you better not think that anything you see is real, unless accidently so like a stopped clock.

Maybe. Maybe she’ll be worse.
The one thing I’m sure of is that you won’t be comparing Trump to Hillary after the election. We will never know the consequences of what might have been, only what is.