...the whole thread is bullshit. It was a feeble attempt at a "gotcha" of Jon Stewart. The OP was bullshit yet righties followed it like lemmings running off a cliff. Here is a SIMPLE EXPLANATION of the difference between Stewart and Trump:
JON STEWART
a) Bought a piece of property in Tribeca for $5.8 million in 2005
b) Paid all property taxes that were due on the assessed value that was determined by the government
c) Sold the property to a willing buyer for $17.5 million in 2014
DONALD TRUMP
a) Bought Westchester Country Club in Ossining, NY for $7.5 million in 1996
b) Trump invested $40 million in improvements to the property. Trump said in presidential financial disclosures that the property was worth at least $50 million (7.5 + 40 = sounds about right)
d) Property was assessed by Ossining govt. at $15 million
e) Trump claimed that assessment was far too high. In 2015, Trump said the property was worth only $1.5 million in a lawsuit filed against Ossining to lower the taxes on the property
http://www.propublica.org/article/trump-inc-podcast-trump-organization-suing-towns-property-tax-breaks Stewart never contested the assessed value of his property. He paid his property taxes without complaint.
Trump has a property worth $50 million but assessed at only $15 million by the Ossining government. Even though Trump invested $47.5 million, he claimed the property was only worth $1.5 million. Trump sued the city of Ossining every year to get his property taxes lowered because he's a cheap POS.
Here are the dumbest righties in the thread:
1) willy - always spouting off about science but he doesn't know jack shit about science. The first step of the scientific method is to QUESTION. willy did NOT question the article. He swallowed it whole and couldn't wait to post it on TER.
This is the same willy who thinks journalism - left or right - is bullshit.
http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/politics-and-religion-39/the-newsmax-link-is-bullshit-441163?page= http://www.theeroticreview.com/discussion-boards/politics-and-religion-39/yes-journalists-are-bordering-on-mental-retardation--441680?page= 2) Lester - he lives up to his reputation as SPOAT by using the following descriptions of Stewart's transaction:
"Stewart over-valued his property"..."Stewart rip(ped) off the taxpayers by vastly underpaying real-estate taxes"...the buyer he sold the property to was his "victim"..."Stewart's crime"
3) CKS175 - couldn't rub his two remaining brain cells together and come up with a theory of his own. All he could do was parrot Mark Levin's theory...which was bullshit.
4) marikod - not a righty but his stupidity has to be recognized. He claimed there were "bells and whistles of fraud" and "badges of fraud." Idiotic meaningless phrases, yet when challenged to explain what those stupid phrases meant, marikod ran away like the gutless little coward he is.
One notable exception to the righty idiots is LostSon. He knew Stewart didn't overvalue his property in order to obtain a loan but he still thought Stewart "overvalued (his property when he sold it) to take advantage of someone."
When I gave him an example of another transaction, he apparently realized that Stewart did NOT take advantage of the buyer because he did not challenge my post. So I give him props for not being an idiot...at least in this thread.
BTW, Ossining is the home of Sing Sing prison. It is on the Hudson River north of New York City. That's where the phrase "going up the river" came from. Hopefully, Trump will be going up the river soon.