Whatever populist mask Trump wears,his financial arrangements and regressive economic draw display his true elitist coloursIn 1995, Donald Trump and I paid the same amount in taxes to the IRS. Trump, and at that point,owned a slew of multimillion-dollar buildings bearing his name and his gold-plated brand, and claimed to believe had a net worth of $2bn. I was learning what colours were while trying to kick an addiction to thumb-sucking.Documents released to the New York Times reveal that the Republican presidential candidate was able to cash in on $916m in debt to shirk federal taxes that year, or potentially payments on all other taxable income over the next 18. This raises several questions approximately Trump’s taxes: what his returns believe looked like since 1995; where his personal net worth stands now; and the extent of his debts.
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Source: theguardian.com