Showing posts with label inheritance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label inheritance. Show all posts

Thursday, September 12, 2024

How much did Trump inherit from his father?

The Times claimed that, after reviewing financial documents, it determined Trump received more than $413 million — in 2018 dollars — from his New York City developer father, Fred, for years. 

According to the Washington Post, Trump benefited from trusts set up for family members as well as loans from his father and his father's estate. The New York Times said it found Trump and his father avoided gift and inheritance taxes by using a sham corporation and undervaluing assets, The Associated Press reported...

Friday, May 20, 2022

Abortion and inherited disease: Genetic disorders complicate the view that abortion is a choice

"…Abortion should remain legal, and it should not be limited by gestational age. I won't hide my personal belief that abortion should be available without exception up until the time of delivery. This view has largely been formed by watching children die of untreatable disease. The discovery of serious problems in a pregnancy can't be subjected to a tidy timeline…"


Thursday, December 16, 2021

The Great Inheritors: How Three Families Shielded Their Fortunes From Taxes for Generations — ProPublica

… Roosevelt summed up the stakes of this historic probe in a letter to Congress. "Taxes are what we pay for civilized society," he wrote, invoking former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. He then added his own knife twist: "Too many individuals, however, want the civilization at a discount."…

Worries about outsized wealth consolidated in the hands of a few date back to the Founding Fathers. When he was a Virginia legislator, Thomas Jefferson sought legal ways to prevent the perpetuation of great fortunes, fearing the rise of American-style feudalism. An "aristocracy of wealth," Jefferson warned in his memoir, posed more "harm and danger, than benefit, to society."……

Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Trump Rambles About ‘Good Genes’ and ‘Racehorse Theory’ at Minnesota Campaign Rally

President Trump told supporters at a campaign rally in Minnesota on Saturday that they’re genetically blessed. “You have good genes, you know that, right? You have good genes. A lot of it is about the genes, isn’t it, don't you believe? The racehorse theory. You think we’re so different? You have good genes in Minnesota.”....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rambles-about-good-genes-and-racehorse-theory-at-minnesota-campaign-rally








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