Anybody who avoids taxes is aok in my book. It isn’t how much you make it is how much you keep and that is why he pays the best lawyers the money.
Trump should simply point out that his many accountants simply follow the tax law as written by Congress. Hillary could have changed it when she was selected NY senator and of course did nothing. Why do you think Wall street pays her so much?
Rudy points out the problem with releasing tax returns - plus, if Trump doesn;t take care to exercise all the deductions available, he can be sued.
Todd thinks it is wrong to have deductions for business losses. Rudy says "Great men have big failures, and come back" citing Winston Churchill and others.
Todd persists that the deduction is a loophole. Rudy says "lots of poor people use loopholes to avoid taxes too." I bet Chuck Todd is a tax loophole fanatic, for his own benefit.
Rudy explains the "too stupid to be president," and Hillary was wrong for attacking Monica. Todd tries the trick of making Rudy a bad messenger because Rudy has had infidelities. Rudy took him to school.
To me, I dislike the term “avoid taxes”. The correct term should be he paid his taxes, even IF he paid nothing. The LAW allows all kinds of deductibles, charges, etc., as long as everything is well documented and itemized. This way, the government can even check later to prove the accuracy of the statement.
So, if Trump or anyone in this country filed their tax document, in accordance with the law, then they HAVE paid their taxes.
Let the New York Times prove his tax return false. I’m sure the democrats and IRS would love that. However, if he filed and it was accepted, they can all go pound sand.