Donald Trump’s Company Charged the Government $3 to Serve Him a Glass of Water The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold is back with more reporting on the subject that he covers better than anyone else in the world, namely, the bogus methods by which Donald Trump funnels money to himself.* In Tuesday’s piece, Fahrenthold lists some of the line items that make up the $2.5 million that has been paid (that we know of) to the Trump Organization by the U.S. government during the tenure of U.S. chief executive Donald Trump. Here is the best one, involving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe When Trump and Abe met at Mar-a-Lago, their first meeting was a brief one on the couch in Mar-a-Lago’s central living room. The two men shook hands for the press, and made brief remarks about what they hoped the summit would achieve. There was no food served. No private room to rent. Seemingly, nothing to charge for. But Mar-a-Lago still sent the government a bill. “Bilateral meeting,” the bill said. “Water.” The price was $3 each, including service charge. Let’s do some extremely back-of-the-envelope math about the costs involved here using figures found via Google: • Price of a glass worth of tap water: less than one cent. • Price of the glass: Also less than one cent, assuming you could buy one at wholesale for about a dollar and use it for a year before it broke.
你不知道啊，华人都是巨富，都是得益于trump的tax cut Trump’s tax cuts helped billionaires pay less than the working class for first time Economists calculate richest 400 families in US paid an average tax rate of 23% while the bottom half of households paid a rate of 24.2% 就这还担心通胀 落地无声 发表于 2022-08-12 20:31
先好好学英文吧 我举例的文章里是说美国前400户富豪，你的数据是top 1% The top 1% represents about 1.3 millionhouseholds who roughly make more than $500,000 a year -- out of a total of almost 130 million.Oct 8, 2021 https://www.bloomberg.com › articles
先好好学英文吧 我举例的文章里是说美国前400户富豪，你的数据是top 1% The top 1% represents about 1.3 millionhouseholds who roughly make more than $500,000 a year -- out of a total of almost 130 million.Oct 8, 2021 https://www.bloomberg.com › articles
落地无声 发表于 2022-08-12 21:13
你说的吧：" while the bottom half of households paid a rate of 24.2%" 富人的事情你们可以忽悠但是我们穷人自己的事情还是知道的，我们穷人自己交多少税不清楚？哪有24.2% 再说到富人，https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/23/americas-richest-400-families-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-average-taxpayer.html 8.2%, 这个数据来源是白灯总统白宫的数据，你总愿意相信了吧？
trump的律师当时在场，而且她说了，trump全程在看闭路电视 Trump and his family watched the FBI search Mar-a-Lago via the property's security feed, says the former president's lawyer https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-family-watch-fbi-search-mar-a-lago-security-feed-2022-8?amp
你说的吧：" while the bottom half of households paid a rate of 24.2%" 富人的事情你们可以忽悠但是我们穷人自己的事情还是知道的，我们穷人自己交多少税不清楚？哪有24.2% 再说到富人，https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/23/americas-richest-400-families-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-average-taxpayer.html 8.2%, 这个数据来源是白灯总统白宫的数据，你总愿意相信了吧？
beyondwind 发表于 2022-08-12 21:15
这个是差不多的标题数据不一样。 问题是我也不是 bottom half 的。 America's richest 400 families pay a lower tax rate than average taxpayer PUBLISHED THU, SEP 23 2021 12:47 PM EDT UPDATED THU, SEP 23 2021 4:02 PM EDT Greg Iacurci @GREGIACURCIWATCH LIVE KEY POINTS The richest 400 Americans paid an average 8.2% federal income tax rate, which is "low" relative to other taxpayers, according to a White House report published Thursday. That's due to the tax treatment of investment income, like capital gains and dividends, the report said. The analysis comes as Democrats try to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund up to $3.5 trillion in investments to expand the safety net and mitigate climate change. 我举例的文章引用了伯克利教授的书 In 2018 the richest 400 families in the US paid an average effective tax rate of 23% while the bottom half of American households paid a rate of 24.2%, University of California at Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman calculate in their new book, The Triumph of Injustice. Taxes on the rich have been falling for decades. In 1960 the 400 richest families paid as much as 56% in taxes, by 1980 the rate had fallen to 40%. But Trump’s tax cuts – his most significant legislative victory – proved a tipping point. Thanks to the controversial tax package the top 0.1% of US households were granted a 2.5% tax cut that pushed their rate below that of the lower 50% of US earners. “This is a revolutionary change and the biggest winners will be the everyday American workers as jobs start pouring into our country, as companies start competing for American labor, and as wages start going up at levels that you haven’t seen in many years,” Trump said in September 2017 as he fought to pass the tax package. But the tax cuts have not led to a significant uptick in economic growth, hiring has slowed and wage growth has remained lackluster. In the meantime the national deficit has swollen to $1tn.
有太多社会学文化学上的理由critical race theory 要教了。作为一个政府他有尊重学术自由么？在没有学术理由的情况下通过政治理由来禁止学术讨论，这种行为本质上和中国政府删帖没什么两样。 在疫苗出来的时候鼓吹反疫苗的言论以及跟着特朗普不戴口罩都是他推行的事情。和特朗普一样擅长利用Populism和极端言论来让自己红起来。
他对Kavanaugh的背景调查就是网开一面 FBI DIRECTOR CONFIRMS AGENCY SENT TIPS FROM KAVANAUGH TIP LINE TO TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WITHOUT INVESTIGATION Trump White House also determined which witnesses the FBI should interview. 4,500 tips to FBI went uninvestigated. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/fbi-director-confirms-agency-sent-tips-from-kavanaugh-tip-line-to-trump-white-house-without-investigation
因为女婿在丈人入驻白宫前欠了一屁股债啊。 然后要挟得到一笔钱摆脱困境 Jared Kushner, in his capacity as a senior adviser to President Trump, reportedly played a central role in supporting a blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Kushner never disclosed his meeting with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the blockade to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the time. Later, a financial company tied to Qatar brokered an especially valuable deal to rescue the Kushner Companies’ property at 666 Fifth Avenue. https://www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeline-on-jared-kushner-qatar-666-fifth-avenue-and-white-house-policy/
去看一下原话吧 一半：They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice … 另外一半：are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.
Donald Trump’s Company Charged the Government $3 to Serve Him a Glass of Water The Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold is back with more reporting on the subject that he covers better than anyone else in the world, namely, the bogus methods by which Donald Trump funnels money to himself.* In Tuesday’s piece, Fahrenthold lists some of the line items that make up the $2.5 million that has been paid (that we know of) to the Trump Organization by the U.S. government during the tenure of U.S. chief executive Donald Trump. Here is the best one, involving Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe When Trump and Abe met at Mar-a-Lago, their first meeting was a brief one on the couch in Mar-a-Lago’s central living room. The two men shook hands for the press, and made brief remarks about what they hoped the summit would achieve. There was no food served. No private room to rent. Seemingly, nothing to charge for. But Mar-a-Lago still sent the government a bill. “Bilateral meeting,” the bill said. “Water.” The price was $3 each, including service charge.
Let’s do some extremely back-of-the-envelope math about the costs involved here using figures found via Google: • Price of a glass worth of tap water: less than one cent. • Price of the glass: Also less than one cent, assuming you could buy one at wholesale for about a dollar and use it for a year before it broke.
川粉的目标都是巨富
但是，有可能在证据上是铁案如山。。。。FBI岂不知如果抓不到铁证，自己会被媒体修理成啥样。
川普这把会比较难过关。
我最感兴趣的是，FBI是怎么知道的？？而且一抓就抓到了，那就是说知道藏匿的地点啊，这情报能力杠杠的，要么就是川普身边人反水。
你们自己从不交税？怀疑你们在不在美国，这个数据错得太离谱。 我们一般人哪有付24%这么多联邦税啊？就算富人老老实实交capital gain税，也就15%, 更别说各种避税了。 查了一下，平均8%左右。
看把你能的
https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/09/trump-tax-cuts-helped-billionaires-pay-less
反水又怎样？举报犯法难道不是应该的？
房子着火，不怪放火的人，难道怪报警的人吗。
看来你真没交过税，这个也信。 https://files.taxfoundation.org/20220119174949/High-Income-Taxpayers-Paid-the-Highest-Average-Income-Tax-Rates-Average-federal-income-tax-rate-by-income-group-in-2019-Summary-of-the-Latest-Federal-Income-Tax-Data-2022-Update.png
De Santis 怎么极端了？我也不希望川普选了，FL州长，我肯定选他，堕胎不极端，小学不推广Lgtb， 不搞 Open border, 估计也不搞AA，这些都符合我的观点
先好好学英文吧 我举例的文章里是说美国前400户富豪，你的数据是top 1% The top 1% represents about 1.3 millionhouseholds who roughly make more than $500,000 a year -- out of a total of almost 130 million.Oct 8, 2021
你说的吧：" while the bottom half of households paid a rate of 24.2%" 富人的事情你们可以忽悠但是我们穷人自己的事情还是知道的，我们穷人自己交多少税不清楚？哪有24.2%
再说到富人，https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/23/americas-richest-400-families-pay-a-lower-tax-rate-than-average-taxpayer.html 8.2%, 这个数据来源是白灯总统白宫的数据，你总愿意相信了吧？
我的天。。。。。critical race theory都不许大学老师去教授，谁教谁被大字报。当初fire state cdc 追踪新冠case的雇员，不推疫苗，各种反智倾向。到古巴移民那儿鼓吹说什么biden是社会主义，这都什么对什么？都是利用古巴移民怕卡斯特罗，但是卡斯特罗和biden是一回事儿么。还有就是他是最推崇特朗普的，就是个比特朗普更competent 的特朗普。
我的天，crt为啥要教？到现在还要有人要推疫苗？你boo了几针了？真打算一辈子打下去？你才是反智商吧。
不会 不会 不会 不会
他说话狠而已 政策中庸
佛州堕胎还不极端…… 啥样才算极端？
虽然2020年我选的他，但是他如果把美国的绝密机密卖给别国那就是间谍罪，支持他坐牢，说明举报的那个人还有良知
忘了在哪里看到trump律师反驳了对方。可又有人说律师一直没发言。 他律师到底有没有发声？
这个是差不多的标题数据不一样。 问题是我也不是 bottom half 的。 America's richest 400 families pay a lower tax rate than average taxpayer PUBLISHED THU, SEP 23 2021 12:47 PM EDT UPDATED THU, SEP 23 2021 4:02 PM EDT Greg Iacurci @GREGIACURCI WATCH LIVE KEY POINTS The richest 400 Americans paid an average 8.2% federal income tax rate, which is "low" relative to other taxpayers, according to a White House report published Thursday. That's due to the tax treatment of investment income, like capital gains and dividends, the report said. The analysis comes as Democrats try to raise taxes on the wealthy to fund up to $3.5 trillion in investments to expand the safety net and mitigate climate change. 我举例的文章引用了伯克利教授的书 In 2018 the richest 400 families in the US paid an average effective tax rate of 23% while the bottom half of American households paid a rate of 24.2%, University of California at Berkeley economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman calculate in their new book, The Triumph of Injustice.
Taxes on the rich have been falling for decades. In 1960 the 400 richest families paid as much as 56% in taxes, by 1980 the rate had fallen to 40%. But Trump’s tax cuts – his most significant legislative victory – proved a tipping point. Thanks to the controversial tax package the top 0.1% of US households were granted a 2.5% tax cut that pushed their rate below that of the lower 50% of US earners. “This is a revolutionary change and the biggest winners will be the everyday American workers as jobs start pouring into our country, as companies start competing for American labor, and as wages start going up at levels that you haven’t seen in many years,” Trump said in September 2017 as he fought to pass the tax package. But the tax cuts have not led to a significant uptick in economic growth, hiring has slowed and wage growth has remained lackluster. In the meantime the national deficit has swollen to $1tn.
上电视了，你Google一下不就可以看到了
你这是把trump当万用背锅侠了吗。 除了贸易战估计没有，isis 估计还打击不了。战争有可能继续。。。 还有你的意思新冠是中国故意传播出来的？？如果和中国关系好就能控制住不传播？？这观点美好的很天真。
难道不应该夸这个FBI头头正直吗？
没有因为同是republican或者对方是前总统就对犯罪分子网开一面
新闻里说了，是川普自己身边的人举报的，所以直接去几个房间拿的东西
左媒很多造谣洗脑，很多东西最好自己独立思考一下。
另外恭喜你，在美国一直都是Top 1, 25% bracket 的稳拿。
你这都在脑洞了，也不愿意带中国。我看中国也能的很，怎么就不卖给中国？中国黄金蓝不比这些国家差
假设前先back一步想想他为啥要卖啊。为钱的话还不如发表些演讲出点书性价比高又安全呢。 而且他想竞选，卖这些文件不make sense.
有太多社会学文化学上的理由critical race theory 要教了。作为一个政府他有尊重学术自由么？在没有学术理由的情况下通过政治理由来禁止学术讨论，这种行为本质上和中国政府删帖没什么两样。
在疫苗出来的时候鼓吹反疫苗的言论以及跟着特朗普不戴口罩都是他推行的事情。和特朗普一样擅长利用Populism和极端言论来让自己红起来。
证据上是铁案如山，的确如此。我上次选了Trump, 不过我不是选个人，而是共和党。他几乎肯定在这件事上犯了大罪，其它事都不用管了。
省税说明不仅穷疯了pay不起tax，还没道德造假。 反正是丢他家的脸。不过他家早没脸没皮了。
他对Kavanaugh的背景调查就是网开一面 FBI DIRECTOR CONFIRMS AGENCY SENT TIPS FROM KAVANAUGH TIP LINE TO TRUMP WHITE HOUSE WITHOUT INVESTIGATION Trump White House also determined which witnesses the FBI should interview. 4,500 tips to FBI went uninvestigated. https://www.whitehouse.senate.gov/news/release/fbi-director-confirms-agency-sent-tips-from-kavanaugh-tip-line-to-trump-white-house-without-investigation
沙乌地阿拉伯刚给kushner“借”了2 billion 演讲你说多少次才能有2 billion？有些人的粉丝真是蠢
我觉得是他老婆。哈哈哈
新冠都全世界穿了好几个来回了，到今天现竟然还有人相信，有任何一个国家/地区能把病毒封住？中国的管控措施，严格地都被骂死了，还不是此起彼伏？
你台湾人啊 我们叫 沙特阿拉伯
我真的对中国无感，你看我这话痨发言，从来政治上不讲中国。
16年已经晚了啊，已经矛盾那么大，要不谁会支持trump。 如果08年她上去了，或是12年共和党拿到了，都不会像现在这样吧？
你没看我前面贴的，$3 tap water，太爱美国。。。的钱了
这个还可以卖很多家
贫穷限制了想象力，以为出书演讲已经是挣大钱了。卖军事机密才是一门好生意
印钱引起通胀有滞后效应 没有毛衣战通胀也不会这么严重
其实希拉里更应该在08年当选 08和16两次选举彻底影响了国运
演讲赚钱慢还累，讲话也要精力的 卖机密多好，能躺着挣钱为什么要站着挣🤗
说了半天还是Obama的锅，你们选了这么个无底线的懂王都是被逼的
08年不是希拉里真可惜，就是从奥巴马开始，开始走下坡路。
我真是不懂那些贪官，要那么多做啥？一个亿不够花吗非要20个亿
kushner和川普现在都是债台高筑，具体多缺钱我不清楚，但是缺钱是肯定的
因为女婿在丈人入驻白宫前欠了一屁股债啊。 然后要挟得到一笔钱摆脱困境 Jared Kushner, in his capacity as a senior adviser to President Trump, reportedly played a central role in supporting a blockade of Qatar by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Kushner never disclosed his meeting with Saudi Arabia and the UAE on the blockade to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the time. Later, a financial company tied to Qatar brokered an especially valuable deal to rescue the Kushner Companies’ property at 666 Fifth Avenue. https://www.justsecurity.org/69094/timeline-on-jared-kushner-qatar-666-fifth-avenue-and-white-house-policy/
佩洛西还稳坐股神宝座呢。他们家缺钱么？
trump粉捐了不少啊，给Eric女友出场费，给老婆形象顾问开工资。
同意。她应该延续男克政策不会走极端，日子会波澜不惊的过下去
如此理直气壮我竟无法反驳 身为国家最高统帅，利用自己的权力叛国，出卖整个国家的人民的安全和利益，这比贪污腐败还严重啊，居然还有为他辩解？
说真的，我也不喜欢CRT， 特讨厌整天种族歧视挂嘴边。我也不喜欢强制疫苗政策，尽管我自己也打了疫苗
哇塞， 3 billion, 是数学老师教的英语还是英语老师教的数学？
不管MSM FBI被抓住撒谎多少次，铺天盖地的脏水泼上去还是很有用。川普不管你多不喜欢，他也是民选的总统，这些年MSM和DC establishment对他就像闯入聚会的小偷一样没有一点尊重，莫须有的罪名和迫害就没停过。可是美国是美国人的美国，税金不是你家的钱包，FBI不是你家的保安，政府不是你开的party
这个国家就是人家的 想卖就卖 关你何事？
笑死了，国家不是人民的？政府还是靠纳税人养的呢
你喜不喜欢crt是你的问题，不由分说通过政府行为而禁了它，这本质和文革的时候把任何西方的事情当成资本主义都禁了，书也别读学校也别上，是一回事儿。 不过说回来，你一个华人，被叫作"Chinese virus"，你为啥还不喜欢crt？
我想说3亿，英文打错了哈哈，毕竟平时用不到
哈哈，看来现在川粉已经接受川普出卖国家机密的事实了，辩解的角度成了国家机密想卖就卖。请继续你的表演。
川普不缺钱。但狂妄，自大，加嘴大给毁了。
别人笔误而已，但意思没错。 你反驳她的观点比嘲笑她的typo更有说服力
哈哈，一看到粉丝说：“一国总统，偷点儿机密文件回家，能算偷吗？”吓得都不会打字了哈哈哈
这粉丝估计读过孔乙己吧，总统拿的文件，能叫偷吗 🙈🙈
正因为是民选的总统才要接受监督 而不是为所欲为 为了一己之私推翻整个民主基础
这不是正常的监督，这是政治迫害 佩洛西当众撕川普演讲稿，拜登说希望司法部prosecute川普，他的最大政治对手
哈哈哈看到你们气急败坏我真开心！
再说一遍，这不是什么迫害，敢做就得敢当！
以前总统 mishandle classified information 不是刑事罪，老川因为希拉里 email 的事，特地通过法律凡是带政府机密文件回家是 felony 刑事罪了。
请君入瓮，说的就是你的偶像，呵呵。
川粉早说了，川普其实是真总统，拜登是傀儡，川普赢了选举，看看国家机密是总统的权利。
你所谓的法制，就是当了国家领导人就能随便犯罪，没人敢管？
这也太厉害了吧。
连民主斗士们所谓的专制独裁的“厉害国”，恐怕都不敢说自己这么厉害吧。
现在还只是一个warrant，你们就给他定叛国罪了，你们咋这么能呢？
这话问川粉刚刚好。 只需改两个字，仇恨变热爱。
只能说，有的人真是不作不死。
这个法律针对federal employee, 总统不算employee, 是大boss.
司法部还没有定义犯罪 白宫还说不知道这事儿 怎么到你这里就提前判定犯罪了呀
今天到底是啥结果呀 知道给个萨默瑞 先谢谢了 这几天给压榨得忙晕了
美国总统是 federal employee， 因为他的 paycheck 出自 federal government 。
而且美国总统不是大 boss，因为他是美国人民选出来的为美国人民服务的公仆。
知道谁可以是一个国家的大 boss 吗？习大大，金大大，呵呵。
请科普档案馆对奥巴文件问题的具体回复 我好想看看这个出处具体条款 权当增加学习 谢谢
今晚咱去研究行政法 好好地去看看administrative law 到底是怎么说的 估计也没有那么具体到总统可以带啥个文件 不懂 如有专业人士 欢迎普及一下学习学习
一半真的说少了
看到有些人的发言真的惊呆了。总统就是大boss，总统就可以above the law？这么喜欢独裁和特权，不如回中国去享受习近平的铁拳。习近平也只会说自己是人民的公仆。川粉真是脸都不要了。
boss 是个大概的说法，总统不算civil service officer, 是constitution officer。 等大家研究法律哈。
吃瓜群众也太投入了吧。攻击起不同政见者简直是疯了一样咬。不支持希拉里就是deplorable? 就别替这台上一个个的亿万富翁们操心了。
怎么不是正常监督了？因为fox说的吗？
总统当然有特权。 正在学习中 关于川普谋逆，相关法律是否适用于president, 法学教授都在讨论 https://reason.com/volokh/2021/01/20/is-the-president-an-officer-of-the-united-states-for-purposes-of-section-3-of-the-fourteenth-amendment/
去看一下原话吧 一半：They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice …
另外一半：are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well.
当然是大统领神机妙算，卸任之前就预判了🐷党会用这十一份材料来陷害忠良。所以秘密解密了这十一份材料，就等着deep state自投罗网
前面同学说得对，要是08年是她，也好了。。。给了她两次机会拯救世界她都没有抓住。
说的真对