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Old 09-30-2016, 05:26 AM
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Why would anyone - even a brain dead geezer in The Villages - vote for a billionaire who pays less percentage in income tax than they do?

Trump said on the debate he doesn't pay income tax because "he's smart". Is he calling those of us - we, the people - dumb for paying our Federal income tax? Sure sounded like it.
Here we go again with the liberal mantra---the wealthy should pay their "fair share" and all that crap, even Hilary said it in the debate. The top 20% of income earners pay 80% of the federal income tax, and the top 53% pay 100% of it, so what is "fair" about that? If it were up to me, you wouldn't get to vote unless you had "skin in the game"
If Trump is guilty of income tax evasion, the IRS will catch him and he should go to jail, just as Hilary should already be in jail for espionage. If he followed the existing tax code and paid little or no tax, so be it, those are the rules. He is right to say that would make him smart, since he'd be an idiot to pay more tax than he has to---and so would you.
Lastly, given the average income of a Villager, on average we all pay about 6K in income tax, while Trump likely pays tens of millions. Perhaps you should rephrase your comment to state "We should all vote for the guy who pays a thousand times more tax than we do"---percentage means NOTHING--taxes are paid in DOLLARS, not percentage points.