Trump: Not paying taxes ‘makes me smart’
Donald Trump didn’t deny escaping paying federal income taxes in some years, but rather bragged about it during the debate.
Click here for reuse options!In fact, he said: “That makes me smart.”
After the debate, he told CNN’s Jim Acosta: “Of course I’ve paid federal taxes.”
Clinton was pressing Trump for not releasing his tax returns for public scrutiny. Trump has said he won’t release his tax returns until a routine audit is complete, though every major party presidential candidate over the past 40 years have released tax returns.
“There is something he is hiding,” Clinton said of Trump during the debate.
“Or maybe he doesn’t want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he’s paid nothing in federal taxes, because the only years that anybody’s ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn’t pay any federal income tax,” she said.
“That makes me smart,” Trump said.
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18 responses to Trump: Not paying taxes ‘makes me smart’
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Larry Schmitt September 27th, 2016 at 08:27
No, it makes him a freeloader. It’s one thing for someone who is classified as working poor to not have enough income to pay taxes on it, but quite another when a so-called billionaire can avoid paying income taxes.
Mensa Member September 27th, 2016 at 09:53
The rich use government services and infrastructure FAR more than working people.
But the rich go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes.
As you say — that’s just freeloading.
It’s not smart. It’s the power and privilege of wealth.
You don’t need a high IQ to write a check to a Republican congressman.
StoneyCurtisll September 27th, 2016 at 19:30
Perfect~!
Mensa Member September 27th, 2016 at 09:47
Smart in the way leeches are smart.
William September 27th, 2016 at 10:36
Exactly! https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9506071d259ef0a0b6e1171743ed6ade907dd33304671c6b9b4354ab0adbfbd6.jpg
StoneyCurtisll September 27th, 2016 at 19:30
Boom~!!
Great smack down~!
whatthe46 September 27th, 2016 at 23:20
FDT!!!
crc3 September 27th, 2016 at 11:46
The IRS, FBI, and CIA should jump on this immediately and investigate Rump from the time his daddy gave him millions to the present. I bet there is plenty of evidence to indict and put him behind bars for a long, long time…
oldfart September 27th, 2016 at 11:49
Bragging about not paying taxes with 100+ million viewers watching does not make you smart. It does however buys a Sh*t load of rope.
StoneyCurtisll September 27th, 2016 at 19:29
High five to that~!
A whole lot o rope~!
Mike N. September 27th, 2016 at 12:02
So says the guy who reaps millions in corporate welfare taken out of the pockets of middle class tax payers
robert September 27th, 2016 at 13:48
” I will release my taxes against my lawyers will when… ”
Oops I was supposed to say my accountant
jybarz September 27th, 2016 at 16:17
I thought not paying your share of taxes is considered unpatriotic and, most of all, not smart because eventually it will catch up with you and throw your ass in jail and/or be heavily fined.
Well, let’s hope and pray the worst for you, con-man….oooh nasty 😂😎🤓
anothertoothpick September 27th, 2016 at 17:28
When trump was a wise ass punkass teenager loser he went up to his father and begged “Daddy daddy give me sumthin”
It worked. from then on he felt his privlage should be extended to the taxpayers of the United States.
StoneyCurtisll September 27th, 2016 at 19:27
Trump: “Not paying taxes ‘makes me smart”…
No Donald, it makes you a dead beat tax payer….
No wonder the IRS has had him under audit for the last 15 years.
amersham1046 September 27th, 2016 at 21:42
So smart you just might lose a building or two and do some farming for the feds
whatthe46 September 27th, 2016 at 23:18
let us pray.
bpollen September 28th, 2016 at 04:01
Trump says that, but he spells “pray” differently.