B*Q
发帖数: 25729 | 1 What is Mr. Trump hiding by not releasing his tax returns?
AS REPUBLICAN voters from Maryland to Rhode Island go to the polls Tuesday,
there is a lot they will not know about Donald Trump. Unlike his rivals, he
has no history in public office on which to judge his suitability for
political leadership. This has enabled the billionaire to attack politicians
, who have to defend political records open for everyone to see, while
touting his business record, which is not subject to a similar level of
transparency. His business interests are often private, and his required
financial disclosure reports aren’t vetted for accuracy, leaving him free
to make wild claims about his success.
Mr. Trump’s unusual position means that the scrutiny that routinely
accompanies running for president is all the more important in his case,
starting with the release of his tax returns. Yet Mr. Trump also has been
the least transparent candidate. His GOP rivals have disclosed tax returns
going back at least four years. Meanwhile, the real estate developer has
stalled, puzzlingly declaring that his tax returns are “very beautiful”
while offering laughable excuses for refusing to share them with the public.
Mr. Trump’s primary defense is that the Internal Revenue Service is
auditing his tax submissions. This presents no obstacle to him releasing
earlier returns. There is also nothing stopping Mr. Trump from disclosing
his preliminary tax documents even while the government is reviewing them.
The differences pre- and post-audit could be illuminating. So could many
other details. Maybe the returns would provide evidence that Mr. Trump’s
business dealings are not generating as much profit as one might expect.
Perhaps they would demonstrate that he does not give much to charity, as
reporting from The Post’s David A. Fahrenthold and Rosalind S. Helderman
suggests. Maybe there would be other surprises.
Mr. Trump claims that tax returns do not show all that much. This argues for
releasing more information, not less. Presidential candidates have in the
past gone beyond releasing personal tax returns. Mitt Romney, for example,
disclosed tax information from the Tyler Charitable Foundation, the entity
that handles his charitable giving, during the 2012 campaign. True,
information on Mr. Romney’s generosity tended to paint him in a positive
light. But if the story Mr. Trump has told voters is true, shouldn’t
releasing information about his business dealings help him? The GOP front-
runner has made his business prowess central to his campaign. Along with his
personal tax returns, he should release more hard information about the
performance of his private ventures so that voters can judge whether he is
the business genius he claims to be.
Mr. Trump is not the only candidate who has struggled with transparency. It
took Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) a strangely long amount of time to finally
release a single year’s tax return. Hillary Clinton has yet to reveal the
transcripts of the speeches she was paid to give after leaving the State
Department. But Mr. Trump is in a stonewalling class of his own.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/what-is-mr-trump-hiding
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发帖数: 53215 | 2 大家都在等喜婆给高盛的transcript呢
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politicians
【在 B*Q 的大作中提到】
: What is Mr. Trump hiding by not releasing his tax returns?
: AS REPUBLICAN voters from Maryland to Rhode Island go to the polls Tuesday,
: there is a lot they will not know about Donald Trump. Unlike his rivals, he
: has no history in public office on which to judge his suitability for
: political leadership. This has enabled the billionaire to attack politicians
: , who have to defend political records open for everyone to see, while
: touting his business record, which is not subject to a similar level of
: transparency. His business interests are often private, and his required
: financial disclosure reports aren’t vetted for accuracy, leaving him free
: to make wild claims about his success.
| r*****x
发帖数: 6988 | 3 让IRS早点audit完，不是老壮就没借口了吗。看来IRS的效率的确差。
做过生意的知道，audit是个什么样的过程。在audit过程中公布自己的tax return，显
然不是你们这种拿W2能理解的。
另外，不差钱到我那个帖子讨论一下三德子这几年做了啥吧。你也不能只做社会主义认
证，不说些实际的吧。
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he
politicians
【在 B*Q 的大作中提到】
: What is Mr. Trump hiding by not releasing his tax returns?
: AS REPUBLICAN voters from Maryland to Rhode Island go to the polls Tuesday,
: there is a lot they will not know about Donald Trump. Unlike his rivals, he
: has no history in public office on which to judge his suitability for
: political leadership. This has enabled the billionaire to attack politicians
: , who have to defend political records open for everyone to see, while
: touting his business record, which is not subject to a similar level of
: transparency. His business interests are often private, and his required
: financial disclosure reports aren’t vetted for accuracy, leaving him free
: to make wild claims about his success.
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