Thread: Five Mexican Nationals Sent to Prison for International Sex Trafficking Ring

Originally Posted by Judy

15 to 24 year sentences for sex slavery??!! Paul Manafort is looking at life for dubious tax charges.

How many of these new high tech firms are up to dubious tax practices? It is not only a GOP specialty. I brought this up a dozen times on Heritage Sentinel conference calls. I give up! Instead they wasted a bunch of time to "repeal Obamacare."

The entire goal of income tax is to figure out how to avoid paying it. Every company uses dubious tax interpretations of expenses and earnings to avoid as much as possible. Sometimes you win with the IRS, sometimes you don't, you pay the tax and a penalty and move on. What they've done to Paul Manafort on this is outrageous!!! The DOJ looked into this years ago and didn't have enough to press charges on tax evasion. Nothing's changed except .... the prosecutor and Manafort's ties to Trump from his short time with the campaign. I don't see how his conviction can stick, I really don't. Also, there are tax courts set up specifically to handle IRS disputes for this very reason because ordinary people serving on a jury have no context, reference, knowledge or capability of determining whether complex business tax treatments were right or wrong. It's just too easy for federal prosecutors to frame someone for tax evasion with a jury.

We need to pass the FairTax and shut this whole income tax crap down once and for all. I hope one day enough Americans can understand that and demand it. It would be a beautiful thing for our country, businesses, citizens, workers and taxpayers.

Also, about this 15 to 24 year federal sentences for the 5 Mexicans for running a kidnapping forced and coercive sex slavery prostitution ring for over 10 years. In comparison, the first person to be released from federal prison under Trump's new First Step Act, the criminal justice reform that for some reason is controversial, that among other things is releasing several thousand federal prisoners, was sentenced in 1996 for 35 years, first charge and conviction, for selling crack to a government informant.

People need to think about that and maybe after awhile those who don't yet understand why the First Step Act is such a fantastic step forward for our country and citizens, will understand why it was not only the right thing to do, it was long, long overdue.

And of course, the person sentenced to 35 years for selling crack to a government informant was a Black American.

God Bless Donald Trump.