You may be on to something: the Wizard was a flimflam artist and snake oil salesman who had bamboozled the citizens of the Emerald City into believing he could perform miracles.
Yeah, I observed that asahi’s been doing Putin’s work months ago. (Not claiming it’s paid work; it could be coincidence that what asahi posts adheres so closely to what paid Putin operatives try to get Westerners to believe. But: even so.)
I’ve decided I don’t need conservative friends or family members.
When conservative meant preserving old values, I could tolerate their presence. But what conservative means now is preserving old and inhumane values, and I refuse to legitimize that. I would no more try to reason with a conservative than I would a rabid raccoon.
Donald Trump engaged in tax schemes that included cases of fraud in which he and his siblings helped their parents dodge taxes, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
The Times investigation, which a Trump lawyer said was inaccurate, cited a “vast trove” of confidential tax return and financial records to show Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413m from his father’s real estate business.
The Times reported that much of that fortune came to Trump because he helped his parents evade taxes, setting up a fake corporation with his siblings to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents.
Trump’s parents transferred more than $1 billion to their children and paid about $52.2 million in taxes. Given the relevant tax rates on gifts and inheritances, they should have paid about $550 million — 10 times more.
Guess that claim that he only received $1 million from his dad was a small lie. Whooops, probably miscounted.