Diminished and Confused - Is Trump OK?

Blasphemy! He's a stable genius.

 

When you say reform tax code, what does that mean to you?

 

Just more 8D chess or whatever number he’s up to now. Tricks all the snowflake libs into voting for Trump because they hate Trump so much they will do the opposite of what he says, which is to elect Biden.

Also craftily stole Biden’s thunder for being a blathering former stoner by becoming an incoherent current meth slammer.

 

The code needs to be simplified from the complex.monstrosity special interests have created over decades. This includes eliminating loopholes, such as carried interest forward. Even my conservative friends, including my ultra conservative stock broker, favor that elimination.

 

Debates should be fun...

 

Or he’s banging a pornstar called Mercedes…

 

Not beyond the realm of possibility that both candidates may elect to opt out of the debates.

 

No I get the point, I’m just saying it doesn’t work both ways. Trump is already demonstrably crazy and unstable. The fact that he may be showing his signs of age isn’t really going to move the needle for a swing voter. Swing voter thinks, I was going to go with Trump even though he is crazy, but I changed my mind because he is showing is age? I think not.

 

You could say the same about anyone

 

Imagine if Biden had said this.

 

born / torn...what difference does it make? all praise be to trumph

 

Poltifact disagrees:

PolitiFact - No, Donald Trump did not call his wife ‘Mercedes’ instead of Melania

 

It looks like PolitiFact is correct. The odd thing is, as much as Trump hates and rants about the media and "fake news," he hasn't said a single word, as far as I know, in response to the ridicule he has received about "Mercedes." I can only assume that he thinks setting the record straight on this highly publicized "gaffe" would just draw attention to all of his real ones. It's one of only two times (that I know of) that something has caused Trump to keep his mouth shut. (The other time was him shutting up about Stormy Daniels after she called him Tiny.)

 

Yes I agree with this. I think it’s simple for most Americans but once you included business income and cap gains, it can get crazy. Corp returns are on another level as well.

 

That is the flaw in an income tax system. Most of the code has to define “what is income?”. For a worker, it’s simple, income is wages and maybe some capital gains or distributions from a retirement plan or pension. For a business? Every aspect has to be defined on both sides of the ledger (revenues - expenses) - and if it’s not well defined business will take advantage of any exploit. The biggest corporations of course have armies of lawyers to either discover new carveouts or to protect existing ones through lobbying (or worse, to have legislators write intentionally opaque law). I think much of the complexity of the code is necessary as a basic function of defining income, but at this point large swaths must also be tangled web of bad law and litigious tax lawyers. The easy tell is companies that constantly pay less than statutory rate, at some point taxes should reflect statutory rates over the long term. Wherever they do not, you’ve got shenanigans.

 

And a lot of those businesses have their tax departments listed on the profit side of the org chart.

 

Online medical experts are opining that Trump has had a stroke, has dementia or both.

He has been dragging his right leg in public appearances and the right side of his face no longer squares up with the left--classic stroke signs.