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Originally Posted by GGG
I hate the arguememt that trump the businessman should have bought American. He bought from the lowest priced quality source. That's what he should be doing. It's the same as the tax argument. He should be reducing his taxes by any legal means.
These shouldn't be reasons he's not qualified to be president.
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It's different when you are campaigning to "Make America Great Again" but your personal and business history shows nothing that indicates you actually want to make america great again. He can choose to support US businesses but thus far it doesn't seem like he does unless it's his own business already. And yes that is a very real choice many businesses make.
The tax thing is more complex as he likely could have used other peoples and bank money to essentially finance his massive take write-off. It may be legal but legal doesn't mean ethical. It's also important because everything I've seen about his tax plan recommendations doesn't actually address these things. edit: what may have been done is Trump personally guaranteed $800+ million of debt and other assets and using provisions only available to real estate developers used that as a personal write-off...something one can do even if not investing a dime of your own money. He'd have to recapture that at some point unless you of course use other loopholes like, maybe, saying your are insolvent and unable to meet that debt. And again this and various other loopholes real estate developers somehow get will not be closed down with his proposals.
Similar to bankruptcy...just because you can legally do it as a company or person doesn't make it the ethical way to do things as a lot of other people end up footing your bill. I'm pretty sure Trump likely doesn't want people digging into whether or not he had other options than bankruptcy to keep things solvent. It was likely the best option for him and him alone. Others be damned.
And that's the problem. A president shouldn't really have a "what's best for me and others be damned" attitude.