Billionaire Trump hasn’t heard of a ‘corner store’ and laments poorer people ‘don’t think in terms of deductions’ at tax event
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-tax-las-vegas-corner-store-inflation-iran-b2959483.html
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BossDj@piefed.social · 125 pts · 145d
He literally sold his first term tax bill by touting people only having to take standard deduction under his plan. No more exhausting deductions! He eliminated a dozen or so deductions that middle class people used. SALT being the most notable.
He would hold up a piece of paper "this is it! You only have to fill out this ONE form!"
Now he's making fun of them. They fell for it, and he doesn't even remember that scam. Only remembers that they're stupid. Because, Trump Cult, you're stupid.
lasta@piefed.world · 44 pts · 145d
Trump’s own tax policies both increased the standard deduction and restricted itemized deductions. Not only that, but most average to low income Americans don’t have enough of the kind of deductible expenses that would make itemized deductions the better choice over standard.
yakko@feddit.uk · 40 pts · 145d
akilou@sh.itjust.works · -12 pts · 145d
You're someone aren't you?
yakko@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 145d
I'm someone in the UK.
whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 145d
Do it! you can break new records!
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 6 pts · 145d
Achieve your dreams!
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 145d
So?
yakko@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 145d
You really feel like you deserve an answer, don't you?
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works · -10 pts · 145d
I didn't expect one tbh. Cowards who tell others to take action while doing nothing themselves don't tend to have thought things through at all.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 145d
A friend of mine, who is better off than I am, told me that I should always itemize. Itemizing does nothing for me. I don't have enough deductions to offset taxes. I don't have a mortgage, my charitable donations are like $200 a year. The tax breaks I want are no tax for war purposes and no tax for ICE purposes.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 6 pts · 145d
Yeah its kinda annoying to. Like you have to figure out an estimate for giving things to charity that your just basically trying to keep out of the waste stream. Maybe the motivation for charity should just be about the charity. I kinda think we should get rid of all deductions for non profits including religions. The actualy charities can deduct expenses anyway and if they actually make no profit then there should be no tax.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 24 pts · 145d
He grew up in NYC, and doesn't know what a Corner Store is. Imagine this dumb fucking hump in a bodega?
"Where's the Diet Coke?"
The clerk just waves in the general direction of the coolers without looking up from his phone.
"HEY! There's a fucking CAT back here!"
dev_null@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 145d
Well, they title is just clickbait, the article quotes Trump saying that he knows what a corner store it. Which is a weird thing to say, sure, but he certainly didn't say he doesn't know.
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 22 pts · 145d
Shades of bush not knowing how grocery store bar code scanners work…
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz · 13 pts · 145d
Not to defend Dementia Donnie here...but as a New Yorker, he probably knows them as bodegas?
Also fuck him, ofc poor people don't know deductions. We can't show 0 income while hiding our assets like his island friends.
Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 145d
As a non-american, and a non-native english speaker, I'm fully aware of what a corner store is.
This is just further proof of Trump's amazing ignorance and poor grasp of the english language.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 145d
It's not even a language issue, it's just complete lack of experience with how the rest of humanity lives.
Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 144d
I guarantee he doesn't know what a bodega is. But he would like saying it, make a racist comment about it, and then would claim credit for inventing the word.
WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 145d
He wouldn't because he's never had to buy anything himself in his life.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 145d
Just McDonald’s. And mostly delivered by PA’s.
hovercat@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 145d
I live in Michigan where we'll call them party stores and corner stores, and I still know what a bodega is. No point in defending him, he's really just an idiot.
Yuccagnocchiyaki@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 144d
He doesn't know any store. He claims he invented the word "groceries" and then told a story about an old woman who wanted three apples but couldn't afford it so she "put one of the apples back in the refrigerator". He also says that we have to show ID to buy groceries.
He knows nothing and we have to suffer for it everyday. It's not bad enough that they are evil but they are also so godamned stupid
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 145d
I'm a New Yorker-in-law, and I know what a bodega is, but I also know what a corner store is. The name describes it perfectly.
Only a virtuosically stupid moron like Trump would have an issue with it, because his entire vocabulary is about 300 words, and half of those have to with money.
Paddy_NI@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 145d
It saddens me that this cunt isn't dead yet.
TipRing@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 144d
Trump has never done his own taxes. He genuinely does not understand how taxes work on any level.
osanna@lemmy.vg · 3 pts · 144d
Which is all the more strange given he’s in charge of one of the biggest economies in the world.
Etterra@discuss.online · 6 pts · 144d
The only corner he needs to know is one on a table that he can trip onto.
foggy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 145d
Gee, it makes yoU wonder If he wiLL ever even pretend tO give a shiT about anyone but hImself. Not rEally, but... You know.
agingelderly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 145d
GUILLOTINEY? is that a new type of pasta? Sounds good
tehn00bi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d
I was like, what is the code word here?
foggy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 145d
Lol damn autocorrect.