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Trickle down

Trump The official line is that the rich should enjoy lower tax rates so they can use their superpowers to spread the wealth and create wonderful jobs. But through special legal loopholes available only to rich people, Trump paid zero. How can taxes for the rich go lower than that?

Tax recognition

Candidates
​After six-or-so intensive weeks of meeting and interviewing New York political candidates, I’ve noticed that the differences in position on the tax burden here is – regardless of political party or stripe – indiscernible, and therefore kind of meaningless.