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Taxing troubles

Trump spirals down as Congress takes a break without confirming a Supreme Court justice

By Dan Simpson

October 5, 2016

With two volatile presidential candidates, anything can happen before the election Nov. 8, but after the revelation Sunday of Donald Trump’s business non-acumen and his apparent non-payment of federal taxes for years, can we declare his candidacy definitively dead?

I ask not from insensate joy at the now likely election of Hillary Clinton, but rather from a realist’s assessment that Mr. Trump has now so seriously offended or disappointed so many voters that he could not possibly win, even against the sometimes feckless Ms. Clinton. http://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/dan-simpson/2016/10/05/Taxing-troubles-nbsp/stories/201610040025