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user-inactivated  ·  2979 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why Donald Trump may have won the first Presidential Debate

    One thing that won't show up on the "trump accomplishments" list is his taking advantage of the corporate tax laws. Most people see it as a despicable trait, but I think it proves his understanding on what's broken. I think a shakeup by Trump in this area isn't even a gamble. I think it can only end positively.

I can't put my finger on why, but this sounds wrong. I think if he shows he's the kind of man to take advantage of broken systems, it shows that he shouldn't be trusted with another system he could end up taking advantage of.





kleinbl00  ·  2979 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I can't put my finger on why, but this sounds wrong.

Because a person's ability to use a nation's laws to their personal advantage does not in any way reflect that person's inclination to fix a nation's laws to the nation's advantage?

user-inactivated  ·  2979 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hmm. I'd say that, yes. I'd take it a step further and say he might give in to temptation to do it again than pursue any desire to do right.

kleinbl00  ·  2979 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd rather keep motive out of it in order to keep this political discourse as apolitical as possible... but to use an analogy, one's habits while riding a car do not reflect their habits while driving a car.

YourMatt  ·  2979 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'd go along with that. I do feel it's a conflict of interest that he would be a sitting president with a bunch of companies under him. He says he'll leave those behind, but I have a hard time believing that.

As the president though, he's not going to be drafting intricacies to a new tax code. Anything on the table will be up to him, congress, and the public to pick through. From what I can tell of his plan, it's all about transparency and getting backdoor money back into the US.