Thank you, exotic local peasants, for picking up my tax bill

Sure, Donald Trump reported a $1 billion dollar loss on his federal taxes—twice—to avoid paying decades of income tax. And yes, he cheated New York state out of sales tax on expensive jewelry. And okay, he used his “charitable foundation” as a plain old tax dodge to both take in income without paying taxes and pay his bills without tapping his own accounts.

But just how petty can one man get?

... documents obtained by The Huffington Post show that the candidate has also repeatedly fought to lower the amount he pays in state and local taxes, in some cases telling authorities that his properties are worth tens of millions of dollars less than he’s claimed in his federal election filings.

Donald Trump to the public: These are the greatest assets anywhere!

Donald Trump to the government: These old shacks aren’t worth spit.

He talked the tax board in Las Vegas into knocking the appraisal of his Trump Hotel down to $25 million, then the very next week, listed its value at $50 million in his financial statements. Maybe that’s just Trump in his “smart businessman” role, putting one over on the government. Except Trump’s campaign has been arguing that, even if it’s true that he paid no federal taxes for decades (it’s true), he still pays out gobs of state and local taxes.

… Trump’s aggressive tax tactics are not always consistent with his personal financial disclosures, nor with his campaign’s insistence that the state and local taxes his company pays offset the massive federal income tax deduction he has apparently claimed.

Trump has cheated at every level from the exceptionally large to the unbelievably petty—even prying money out of a local public library.

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