A manager at McDonald’s likely paid more federal income tax than President Trump did in 2016, the year he first took office.
The president’s tax returns show he paid just $750 in federal income taxes each year in 2016 and 2017 and paid nothing at all for many years before that, according to reporting from The New York Times.
So how could the tax system allow someone with a lifestyle as lavish as Trump’s — he owns ritzy golf courses, spends tens of thousands dollars on haircuts — to pay less tax than you or me?
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