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You can swap Amazon for any company or individual large enough to hire an accountant. A good one is worth their weight in gold.

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Exactly. Since this article is meant to repeat Trump's rhetoric, how about we look at his companies and their history of avoiding taxes, or his (presumable) avoidance of paying taxes?

If only there were some sort of well-established norm requiring presidential candidates to publicly disclose their tax returns...

>norm requiring presidential candidates to

Apparently not required.

If only we had a president who cares about well-established norms of integrity and truthfulness.

If only we had a democracy and campaign process that valued informed voters more than monied interests

If only citizens would show up to vote for their presumed slam-dunk candidates!

If only the media wouldn't feed the electorate the message that voting is pointless because they already know who is going to win in a landslide!

Mitt Romney got blasted for not revealing his returns (they were being ammended IIRC). The media made this whole thing about it for weeks.

Apparently it didn't matter as much 4 years later. The media are a fickle bunch.

They did the same thing for trump. And for every other thing he ever did. I'm not sure how you could imagine otherwise; anything that could potentially be construed as offensive in some fashion, was reported as such. Most channels absolutely hated him.

But he became president anyways. maybe as a result of it.

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