taxes
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Why You (Yes, You) Are Broke as Shit and Will Never, Ever, Ever Be Rich So Stop Deluding Yourself, Explained
Wait. What? How can you even say that? How can I even say what? Don’t play dumb. I’m not playing. I’m naturally dumb. (Sigh) How can you—a person who 1) knows nothing about me and 2) knows nothing about the future—say that I will never be rich? Because you won’t be. And I don’t need…
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President Trump Is the Dikembe Mutombo of Blocking…His Taxes
President Trump was never going to show his taxes. We knew this in 2015 when he was running for president and claimed that his taxes were being held up by an audit by the IRS. Then we learned that an audit wouldn’t stop the president from releasing his taxes. But he still wouldn’t release them.…
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Sen. Lindsey Graham Flexed His Tax Returns and Then Played Himself
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is what happens when pantyhose, a wet piece of notebook paper, and rotten cauliflower have an orgy on a dimly lit street corner in Florida, and the pantyhose gets pregnant. And as such he continues to do this thing where he straight plays himself. For some reason, Graham, born Horatio…
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Judge Rejects Trump’s Challenge to Subpoena, Tells President to Show Manhattan DA What Those Taxes Do
President Donald Trump came all the way to New Orleans to get beads but he doesn’t want to show his taxes. Trump will bend over but he refuses to let his knees touch his elbows. Trump will shake it fast, but he will not, under any circumstances, watch himself. Well, on Thursday, federal judge, Victor…
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New York Times' Report on Trump's Taxes Confirms He Is the Worst Businessman in the World, and Don Lemon's Got Jokes
In what may be the undoing of Donald Trump’s facade as the biggest, wealthiest businessman to every lace up his hard bottoms, a new report shows that Trump is exactly who we thought he was: an idiot who inherited his father’s fortune and pissed it away making bad business deals. In a scathing report by…
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Presidential Hopeful Kamala Harris Released Her Tax Documents. Trump Still Hasn't.
California Sen. Kamala Harris reports that she and her husband had an adjusted gross income of about $1.9 million in 2018 and paid about $700,000 in federal taxes, according to AP News. The Democratic candidate for president, who released 15 years of tax returns, showed income last year of about $157,000 from her job in…
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Richard Neal Won't Back Down From Hunt for Trump's Tax Returns
House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal won’t back down. He still wants to see six years of Donald Trump’s personal and business tax returns. He sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig saying as much. In Neal’s two-page letter, he explains his belief that his committee is within its rights to request Trump’s…
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Racism by the Numbers: How the Internal Revenue Service Targets Poor Black Taxpayers
Every single one of the 10 counties with the highest rates of Internal Revenue Service tax audits are overwhelmingly black. The 10 counties where the IRS audits the least are disproportionately white, with very few black residents. Sometimes, there is no need to beat around the bush. According to a new report from TaxNotes by…
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Steve Mnuchin Says He Will Comply With Law to Release Trump’s Tax Returns, Maybe
During a two-hour hearing on Capitol Hill, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin made it clear that he would comply with an obscure law that could compel him to turn over Trump’s records. CNN reports that Mnuchin, himself no stranger to grift, told Democrats that he would comply with U.S. tax code section 6103, which allows three…
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Democrats Expected to Formally Request Trump's Tax Returns in Coming Weeks: Report
Much like my beloved Boston Celtics, Donald Trump can’t seem to buy a victory these days. Soon, the House of Representatives may get to the bottom of why. House Democrats are expected to formally request 10 years of Trump’s personal tax returns in the coming weeks, according to the Washington Post and other media outlets.…