There is a massive story about President Trump's tax returns.
It's that someone committed a federal crime - or at the very least violated one of the basic principles of federal tax law and betrayed their professional duty - by providing an American citizen's tax returns to journalists.
The story the Times wanted to tell is the lie that the liberal media have been telling for four years now: massive, undisclosed ties to Russia, secret payoffs, and backroom deals.
Disappointed that they didn't get to write the story they wanted to - a thrilling spy novel with Russians and salacious sex stories - the Times reporters invented a new one: President Trump only paid $750 in federal income tax in certain years.
His companies have paid more than $100 million over the same time in corporate tax, sales tax, employment tax, and property tax.
President Trump is different in only one respect: unlike most billionaires, he signed tax reforms that reduced the number of deductions available to wealthy people in order to allow middle-income Americans to enjoy lower income tax rates.
That's a story the Times should write about some time, instead of violating tax privacy to chase down wild conspiracy theories.
Thursday, October 1, 2020
NYT's Report on Trump's Stolen Tax Returns Doesn't Tell the Story Liberals Wanted It To
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