Trump’s taxes could reveal a great genius: Your Say

Letter to the editor:

After releasing her tax returns citing that she and her husband paid a 34% tax rate, Hillary Clinton tweeted, “There is a non-zero percent chance that Donald Trump isn’t paying *any* taxes.”

Well if this is indeed true, and Trump isn’t facing any hostile action except his usual annual audit from the IRS, then the man is an absolute genius. What better way to illustrate how his economic brain functions than by legally getting away with paying any hard-earned income to a reckless government that’s notorious for wasting and squandering our tax dollars?

During his Republican nomination acceptance speech Trump chidingly smirked, “Face it folks, no one knows the system better than me.” And if he does know how to work the system to his benefit of paying no taxes, who better than him to fix it and make it more equitable?

If Trump is indeed holding back from releasing his tax returns because he’s paying little or no taxes — and he is being advised that it would be a political mistake to release them — I see this as a grave tactical error.

Not paying taxes or paying as little as possible is one of the ultimate strengths of a business leader’s acumen. Why would anyone view it as anything else?

Ironically, it’s Trump who has pledged to streamline the tax code by simplifying it, which would end all the loopholes that he most likely uses to dramatically slash his corporate and personal tax bill. In effect, this part of Trump’s plan would be giving himself a tax hike as opposed to the current tax system under President Obama that Clinton alludes he’s somehow cheating on. He is simply “working the system” to its maximum benefit.

Someone needs to ask Clinton, who in their right mind wouldn’t?

Eugene Dunn; Medford, N.Y.