KZRG commenters- There's nothing wrong with Trump not paying taxes

If President Trump were to actually shoot someone on Fifth Avenue as he said it a fit of hyperbole during his first campaign, I have absolutely no doubt his supporters on the KZRG Facebook page would defend him and ask why doesn't anyone ever talk about all of the people Hillary killed.

Why should they care if he decides to shoot someone when they don't care that this billionaire pays less in taxes than any of them?

The self-proclaimed tax experts and apologists were out in full force Sunday and Monday when KZRG posted the Fox News story about the New York Times report detailing Donald Trump's tax returns for the past two decades.

Of course, it really wasn't Fox News' story about the allegations.

Fox News never really reports on any of these allegations. Those are buried in the article. To Fox, every allegation has been met with a headline similar to the one that accompanies the article on the KZRG Facebook page.

Trump calls New York Times report that he avoided paying taxes 'totally made up'

It's a not-so-subtle way of Fox putting its thumb on the scales. There has never been a time in journalistic history when every time an allegation is made against a politician, the story is not the allegation, but the denial.

Whoever it is that handles the KZRG Facebook page, put the thumb on the scale even further with a comment by quoting Trump in the update portion of the post.

"Everything was wrong, they are so bad," Trump said.

You would think the president was describing his tax returns, but neither he nor the commenters had any problem with those.

A sampling of the comments:

"More anonymous sources from that rag the NYT. It must get tiring playing the boy who cried wolf all the time." (President Trump signed the tax returns.)

"Tax avoidance is legal. Jeff Bezos uses it. Tax evasion is illegal. NYT doesn’t grasp the distinction."

"I deduct everything I can on my taxes. That’s completely legal and expected!"

"If they worked as hard on fixing the U.S. as they do trying to harass Trump imagine all the things that would be fixed."

The NYT should be asking if Hunter Biden paid taxes on the 3.5 million he received from the wife of the ex mayor of Moscow. 

(If Hunter Biden was the president or if he was running for president, they would.)

What does anyone's taxes have to do with running the country? It is not in the constitution or a law that the president or anyone else has to show their tax returns. I have always wondered what difference it makes. 

(What difference? How about a president who is deeply in debt, with hundreds of millions in debt that he personally guaranteed that he has to pay during a second term. Who is he in debt to? New York banks stopped lending money to him decades ago. Or just simply the fact that he sold himself to the country as a successful businessman who would make great deals for the country. Some successful businessmen have down years, but they don't have them forever. A president's financial situation also could also reveal a vulnerability to influence by people who could affect his bottom line, or get him out of debt. That's not to mention the promotion of tax bills that benefit him or her, but not the country.)

It will be interesting to see Biden's tax returns and see the income from China.

(Here's a link to all of Joe Biden's tax returns. He posted them on his website. I am sure you probably just overlooked it.)

I am really hoping Trump used every loophole created by politicians to only pay $750 in taxes. That is beating them at their own game.

(No, it is not. If the loopholes are legal, that's an indictment of our tax laws. If they are not and there is plenty of indication that is the case, it is stealing money from you and me.)

Everything negative is always fake according to him. Now here is your chance to prove it! Stop hiding  behind an audit,, Let's see those taxes. After all, you said you had no problem showing them in the past.

(How the heck did that comment get on KZRG? Someone must have been asleep at the switch.)

Trump 2020!

(Oh, well.)