Trump still hasn’t released his tax returns and I’m sure it is because his effective tax rate is probably lower than yours or mine. That doesn’t bother me at all, but the media will have a field day with it and make it a big issue. My thought is it will haunt him like it did Romney. He should release his tax returns and in a couple of weeks, it will be old news. Better now than in October like Romney did.
For the past 20+ years Trump was not calling the shots, not in power, nor did he make or legislate all these punitive lunatic laws, regulations, create reckless trillion dollar foreign policy disasters, put us trillions in death of debt spiral, 10 year long compassionate wars costing trillions. Everyone on the planet is making bank on their free trade deals, everyone but Middle America.
It is this which haunts me.
The government is ripping us all off in broad day light while they spend like drunken lotto winners. The fed governments main purposes in life is to secure our borders and protect the homeland. They not only failed at that, but they've aided and abetted all of it including their reckless chain immigration policies. It's all there.
So I have zip zero concern for Trumps tax return.
Voters aren’t gonna turn on a guy for minimizing his tax—that’s what all voters themselves do.
He may be waiting till this years is filed to make it look better than last years. I think he has till Aug/Sept if he filed an extension. I suppose a lot of it will depend on how many of the beneficial decisions are locked in and how many are adjustable.