Tax Avoidance: What Should We Make Of Trump's Tax Returns? (with Barb McQuade)
It's Complicated
Renato Mariotti
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🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:20.0 | Donald Trump pays only 750 dollars a year in income taxes, but he claims that he pays millions. What can we do about it? Let's get on topic. Welcome to On Topic, a weekly in-depth look at a topic that helps us understand the week's news. My name's Renato Mariati. I'm a former federal |
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| 1:34.6 | So Patty, I have to say it's insane that we found out this news that literally the |
| 1:40.9 | president of the United States is not paying much of anything |
| 1:45.6 | in taxes is engaging in all sorts of shady practices that are causing a lot of people |
| 1:51.1 | to think that he's cheating on his taxes that maybe he's |
| 1:53.8 | committed a crime and that's like a two to three day story before we have a |
| 1:59.1 | complete dumpster fire of a presidential debate now of course during the debate he says I pay millions in income taxes so the |
| 2:07.7 | whole issue is front and center but it really amazes me how quickly things are changing here in 2020. |
| 2:15.2 | No doubt and it's also amazing those who are clinging to their allegiance really is the only way I can think of it to the president and their |
| 2:24.5 | ideals. It changes every every few minutes as far as like well no look |
| 2:29.5 | Biden didn't pay five hundred thousand dollars in taxes and he's so smart and that's why he gets away with it and blame the tax code and it's Biden's fault and then oh no he does pay millions and so you know the goalposts aren't even just moving they're on wheels man I don't know what the goalposts aren't even just moving |
| 2:42.9 | they're on wheels man i don't know what to do anymore when it comes to even having |
| 2:47.3 | any logical decide which i really don't think i can do anymore having any rational |
| 2:51.3 | discussions of people who are so adamant that this guy is a good person or a good |
| 2:56.7 | businessman or is trustworthy or and not racist and the list goes on and on. |
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