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Well, Donald Trump has never structured his life that way. He has never structured his tax return, he\u2019s never structured his income expense report, he\u2019s never structured the way he manages his finances as though he was gonna be a candidate someday. In other words, he\u2019s been real. With all of these politicians running for president what we find out is that their primary source of income is the salaries paid to them by taxpayers. We find that\u2019s their primary source of income, which is $150,000 a year, $165,000 a year. That\u2019s their prime income.<\/p>\n
Romney, of course, is not part of this because he was independently wealthy before he became a candidate, but that\u2019s my point. If you don\u2019t have a tax return that looks like the standard, ordinary, everyday politician with an income based on your congressional or Senate or whatever salary, then there are immediate red flags that are immediately held against you. And I might add the Clintons — despite only being paid, whatever, 400 grand for president and zilch for first lady, $170,000 when she was in the Senate, whatever as secretary of state…<\/p>\n
Despite earning literally meager amounts of money, they somehow have $300 million now. Now we know how, and nobody looks askance at that. Nobody thinks that odd. Nobody thinks there\u2019s something corrupt. You have Trump with a loss of $916 million and people say, “Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Scandal, scandal.” Why is there no scandal with Hillary Clinton earning $22 million in two years doing 20-minute speeches primarily to banks, the transcripts for which she will not release? Why is that not the scandal?<\/p>\n
Why is there no scandal associated with the entire Clinton Crime Family Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative, all of these people from around the world who have “donated,” quote\/unquote, to the Clinton Foundation? We know what\u2019s going on! They\u2019re making investments in Mrs. Clinton as secretary of state or as an eventual president. Why is there no scandal there? Well, there is. It\u2019s just not looked into because they have a standard, ordinary, everyday tax return like every politician alive has.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m a little long here I\u2019ve got take a break. But you get my drift here, folks.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: Hi. How are you? Welcome back. No, no. Let me cut to the chase. My point is that this whole business of politicians releasing their tax returns is a scam in and of itself, and it is designed to keep outsiders from running. It\u2019s designed to keep nonpoliticians from running. I think having to reveal your tax returns is one of the primary reasons why people don\u2019t run. And politicians have this gamed up. They know how to prepare their tax returns structure their lives that their only income appears to be their congressional salary.<\/p>\n There\u2019s nothing super special on it, \u2019til they leave office, then all of a sudden you find out how much land they own and — or when they\u2019re so incumbent entrenched, they can\u2019t possibly be beaten, like Harry Reid. I really believe that this whole tax return business is part of the scam that the establishment has put together to keep outsiders and nonpoliticians from running. And, furthermore, it allows the media to demonize private sector candidates as “rich and evil people, and people that you can\u2019t trust,” when their tax returns show anything outside the norm.<\/p>\n Anything! Doesn\u2019t matter what it is. It could be that they\u2019ve made a lot of money. It could be that they\u2019ve had a lot of losses that equal write-offs. This is exactly what they did to Romney. Anybody that has a tax return like Romney that utilizes any law applicable and thus looks complicated compared to your average politician… Remember, that\u2019s the measure, that\u2019s the standard. The outsider\u2019s tax return as measured against Congressman X, Congresswoman Y, is going to, by definition, look more complicated and different, particularly if that private sector person\u2019s been successful.<\/p>\n But when the media is the arbiter, there\u2019s no way a guy like Trump or anybody on the outside can prevail and win, \u2019cause they\u2019re gonna be dissed.<\/p>\n BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n RUSH: I want to wrap up on this Trump stuff. I really, folks, think that this tax return business is a setup. Look, it\u2019s easy to say now. But I\u2019m gonna tell you: I have always thought this tax return thing was worthless, meaningless, a gimmick. It always ended up helping the Democrats, every time! Richard Nixon had his tax return leaked way, way, way back, and it was thought at the time that — and they got away with it.<\/p>\n They created the idea that Nixon was somehow scandal ridden, even though there was nothing illegal on his tax return. It was just leaked. But I have always suspected it; I\u2019ve always been suspicious. The Democrats are always… They\u2019re just always using this. They\u2019re so eager for whoever the Republican candidate is to release his taxes, and one of the primary reasons why is it\u2019s one of many techniques Democrats use to try to disqualify the Republicans on the basis that they\u2019re rich or on the basis that they have more money than the average American.<\/p>\n The Democrats are the New Party of rich, by the way. But I\u2019ve often thought tax returns don\u2019t tell anybody anything. It\u2019s not a window into anything. And therefore it\u2019s obviously a gimmick, it\u2019s a trick, and who\u2019s ginned it up? The Washington establishment. I think the way it\u2019s manifested itself now is that the tax returns of politicians are the result of calculating people to begin with. You have to be a calculating individual to be a politician.<\/p>\n From the moment you decide to get into it, you start calculating what you can and can\u2019t say, what you can and can\u2019t do, what you can and can\u2019t be seen doing, what you can and can\u2019t wear wherever you go, what you can and can\u2019t involve yourself in. Everything is a calculation, including the picture of your finances. And, unfortunately, most people don\u2019t pay any attention to the financial disclosure forms. They are so esoteric the average person couldn\u2019t understand those like he can\u2019t understand an average spreadsheet from a Wall Street firm.<\/p>\n And they\u2019re designed to be that way! Financial disclosure forms are designed in such a way so as not to harm the politician involved. It\u2019s part of being in the club. Tax return, ditto. Calculating people begin calculating every aspect of their lives from the moment they decide to get into politics, elective office or even appointed, and they calculate their financial lives so that they\u2019ll look a certain way on a tax return.<\/p>\n Well, a private citizen doesn\u2019t even think of calculating in the political way. A private citizen has other considerations in business, whatever. Everybody\u2019s got specific reasons for doing what they do. But politics has its own set of specific reasons and behavioral patterns that you must engage in if you\u2019re gonna be successful. So here comes an outsider knockin\u2019 on the door, knocking it over, trying to get in to the insider club.<\/p>\n Their tax returns are used to disqualify them somehow or another. And I\u2019m just sick of it working. I\u2019m sick of them getting away with everything they get away with. I\u2019m sick of it, to the point of openly fuming about it. It\u2019s an insult to my intelligence, number one. It\u2019s doing great damage to the country, number two. And the bad guys are getting away with it! And that\u2019s got to stop. For the sake of everything, the bad guys have got to stop getting away with it — and that\u2019s, in part, what the Trump campaign represents to people.<\/p>\n The bad guys finally stop getting away with it, ceasing to get away with it.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" RUSH: Now, about this tax return business. I think, again, a little perspective might be helpful here. What is this tradition of candidates releasing their tax returns anyway? When did that start? What\u2019s its purpose? Well, its purpose is to tell a lie. 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