I Wish I Had An Honest President

@fazer1k: It's nevertheless interesting to hear what people from other countries have to say. I'd also like to add that plenty of Americans think it's okay to weigh-in on all sorts of things they can't vote on, such as Brexit. I fail to see how non-Americans expressing an opinion on US politics is any different.

@Rutterman: Brexit is a mistake in my opinion - so even when I do get to vote it makes no difference, apparently! Thank you for you support, at least as far as having an opinion goes anyway.

@fazer1k: You're welcome. It was a pleasure talking with you.

@fazer1k Lol, ummm ... Thank you for explaining all that, but you have no idea how little I care about the inner workings and dynamics of a family three thousand miles away. 😂 I know so many people track the daily comings and goings of the royal family, but I am not one. :)

@IAmJess Fair enough. I don't follow them either, to be honest, but the 'big' news always ends up in the UK media and becomes hard to miss when you live here!

@fazer1k Understandable. Kinda like Trump news here. But I tend to tune out all but the biggest headlines about him.

@lastbabyboomer: China now runs the world economy

@nedkelly: Yeah, that's all I see...."made in China?!" 😳

@sweetpea: YES and babyboomer is what we say down under - tell him he is dreaming

Thank you! :-)

Could she possibly be worse than Trump? Democrats are a much safer bet than a right-wing extremist.

@fazer1k: Some of these Hillary-haters have a distorted view of reality. No one lies more than Donald Trump. In fact, analyses of statements made by all of the presidential candidates going back to the primaries have shown that Donald Trump has lied more often than anyone else, including Hillary Clinton.

Here's just one example of fact-checking that has demonstrated this:

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2016/jun/29/fact-checking-2016-clinton-trump/

I don't like either candidate

@Resilience: Fair enough. That sounds like a good reason. I must admit I have been faced with that type of decision and I ended up voting for who I considered to be the 'lesser evil'.

I don't think I'll vote this time around either. :(

Hasn't Trump misbehaved enough already with things he has said during the campaign? He has shown himself to be racist and to attract support from the more extremist right-wing groups, disrespectful to women, and 'astute' enough in business to make a loss sufficient to discharge his liability for tax for 18 years. I'm pleased to see he is behind in the polls. There's hope yet.

@fazer1k:

US Taxes come in many forms. Besides federal income taxes, we pay state income taxes, city earring taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, real estate taxes, payroll taxes, inheritance taxes, excise taxes, special hotel taxes... basically taxes on everything. The average working American will easily see over 50% of his/her earnings being used to pay taxes in one form or another. Most taxes are in and of themselves. That means a business profit or loss has no effect on the amount owed/paid for real estate taxes.

Business income taxes are paid on business earnings. That basically means money collected (or earnings accrued) minus expenses paid (or accrued), based on standard accounting practices. And it's perfectly acceptable to carry losses to future years. Example, if it cost $1 million to build a building in 2016, and the building is sold in 2017, the tax filing for 2016 would show a $1 million loss. The loss wound carry to 2017. If the building is sold in 2017 for $1.1 million, the tax would be on the $100,000 profit.

Big losses that carry forward to multiple years aren't unusual. There is no tax prize for a big loss and it's not an escape from paying one's fair share. If the business doesn't eventually cover the loss with earnings, at the end of the game, the loss comes out of the owner's pocket.

What I found pretty funny was Hillary's flip-flop in Trump's business loss. First she claimed that he must be a horrible businessman if he lost 1 billion dollars in one year, and then she changed horse and tried to associate his billion dollar loss with not paying his fair share :)

The US income tax code is super complex and the average voter probably doesn't know the difference between a debit and a credit. Democrats pander to Americans who don't own businesses and claim that the rich aren't paying their fair share. It's part of the Democrats' plan to keep Americans "Dumb and compliant" as revealed on recently released Democrat e-mail.

@yllacsar: That's interesting to know. Thank you. And I have only spent a few days in New York but I can relate to what you say. I put it down to N.Y. being a hectic city and it seemed like everyone was in a hurry.

That's another thing - it's virtually impossible to be racist growing up in NYC....you're constantly surrounded by every concievable ethnicity ....
Sure there's some racial tension and much of natural discord amongst the atavism of cultural microcosms....BUT - judging individual people by ethnicity is uncommon...
You seldom hear an INDIVIDUAL described by race/creed....

Assertations of trumps racism is absurd

@yllacsar: Yes. New Yorkers can difficult to take at first. They often wear an abusive crust that may feel threatening to the outsider. I lived there for a few months and was a frequent overnight visitor for years.

There's an old joke about New York City, about why passerby respond indifferently to taxi-cab drivers being mugged, and don't interfere. It's that they don't know which is the victim.

I would take Hillary over Trump in a heartbeat but it's too late now. Congratulations on getting your preferred result anyway. :-)

For many, it was a choice between two undesirables. We'll see how history unfolds.

Our Obama left too many messes to be cleaned up by his heir (hillary). And had she been elected she would most likely just double-down on his messes.

Trump represents a chance at a fresh start. But it's a "chance".

I believe there's a popular British saying about the US: "Americas will always do the right thing - after exhausting all the other possibilities." :)

@IAmJess Too late now! Oh well... 😉

@fazer1k Well, I can say not my fault because I wasn't yet eligible to vote. :)

@grandaddypurple: If they both die Paul Ryan becomes President. That would be great.

@grandaddypurple, you hit the nail right on the head!