Category: politics

Whatever is actually in Trump’s tax returns is worse than what the New York Times says

Whatever is actually in Trump’s tax returns is worse than what the New York Times says

Trump could have released his tax returns and proven them wrong. Trump could have shown their speculation to be mere speculation, and used it as a cudgel to discredit their reporting on his campaign. The Times was far, far out on a limb.

But the Times bet correctly. Trump still isn’t releasing his returns. And here’s what that means: whatever is in his returns is worse than what the New York Times is telling the world is in his returns. The Trump campaign has decided it prefers the picture the Times is painting — a picture where Trump didn’t pay taxes for 18 years — to the picture Trump’s real records would paint.

It’s the cover up, not the crime.

The press thought Trump’s first 30 minutes were his best. They were his worst.

The press thought Trump’s first 30 minutes were his best. They were his worst.

NAFTA was enacted in January 1994 — a few years before one of the strongest economies in American history. It would be foolish to credit NAFTA with the ’90s economic boom, but it is yet more foolish to pretend NAFTA devastated the American economy given the fact that unemployment fell from 6.6 percent in January 1994 to 4.0 percent in January 2000.

There is little to no data to support NAFTA as harming workers yet this is taken as a fact.

The US excels as capital goods production. NAFTA changed nothing there.