Hillary Clinton has spent the last month lamely chiding Donald Trump for taking perfectly legal tax deductions that were available to him and any other American in his situation. This is ridiculous. It’s also worse than hypocritical. The Clintons, you see, not only take deductions whenever they can get them, but sometimes they even lie. A recent report from Americans for Tax Reform reveals just how:
A new review of Hillary and Bill Clinton’s previous tax returns show the Clintons blatantly overvalued their non-cash donations and illegally reduced their tax burden. They didn’t pay the taxes they owed.
Hillary and Bill Clinton famously donated Bill’s used underwear and took a $2 per-pair tax deduction on their 1986 tax return. In Bill’s own handwriting, here is the line from the 1986 Clinton tax return, claiming a $6 deduction for “3 pr. underwear”:
Most press reports have focused on the strangeness of the used underwear donation and tax deduction. But the new examination of handwritten notes reveals the Clintons cheated on their taxes by significantly overstating the value of their donated clothing. These are not simple rounding errors of a few percentage points: The Clintons overstated the value of their used clothing by a factor of several hundred percent.
And not just the underwear, but many items of clothing including suits, pants, and sports coats.
Read more here. First, we hope that the poor soul who was tasked with collecting Slick Willy’s underwear escaped the ordeal disease free.
But jokes aside, what the fine people at ATR have discovered is that the Clintons used the tax code to wildly overstate the value of their donations so they could keep more of their own money. Now, the same Clintons that actually cheated the system are running around criticizing Donald Trump for using legitimate legal avenues to keep more of his own income.
Hypocritical Hillary, we’re on to you.
AAN Staff
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