Quote:I have no idea what you are talking about, but feel free to believe what you want about Trump's tax avoidance strategy. Just don't try to convince me I am wrong without proving it.

Okay, in the most simplest of forms, with nice, easy numbers.



Say you lost 100 dollars, then you turn around and find one dollar. That does not mean you are ahead a dollar, it just means you are now only 99 dollars in the hole. That's is kind of what happened with Trump.


Trump lost a bunch of money one year, and it took him a bunch of years to get the money he lost back. During those years, the money he made is not considered profit because he's still not earned back the money he lost. If you don't have a profit (income) then you don't pay income tax.

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