(09-30-2020, 05:02 PM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(09-30-2020, 04:53 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Why are you and other leftists like you so obsessed with President Trump's taxes?  How exactly does his personal finances affect you or anyone else?

I don't think "obsessed" is the right word for it.  "Interested" is what I am.  I have spent a lifetime in business and finance, and this stuff interests me.  

By the way, I am not a leftist.  

And how do his personal finances affect me?  Well for one thing, if the President owes someone $300 million, which is going to come due during his second term, and he won't tell us who it is, how do we know his decisions are not affected by that?  

The other interesting thing is, is he who he says he is?  Is he really this hugely successful billionaire, or is it all an illusion?  

And there are a lot of other interesting questions.

Meh... I couldn't care less about his personal finances.  Is he "really" a billionaire?  millionaire?  I really don't care.

As far as personal finances or anything like that affecting the decisions that he makes as President, I'll just look back at his record over the last 3 1/2 years.  Being tough with China getting out of the NAFTA disaster by signing the USMCA, getting out of the Paris Agreement and so forth are more important to me when it comes to economics.  Those things are good for us as a whole.

The economy was on fire, unemployment was sinking and things were going well before the China virus hit.

---