How should Democrats tackle Trump’s tax story?

You can’t reveal corruption when it is already in plain sight.

“Long-concealed records show Trump’s chronic losses and years of tax avoidance” so reports the New York Times.

But is anyone surprised by this?

Almost four years ago to the day, during his debate with Hillary Clinton, Trump bragged about how not paying taxes makes him smart. This might be horrifying to some, but it clearly isn’t to others. Using the extremely unscientific method of looking at social media comments, the response of “I wouldn’t pay tax either if i could get away with it” is a popular one.

In a similar vein to screaming Republican hypocrisy about how they’re handling the vacant Supreme Court seat, screaming corruption at Donald Trump might be cathartic, but I suspect it will also be ineffective.

I think there are three things that should be talked about, though.

1. Trump can’t handle his own finances, let alone the biggest economy on earth

The only area where Trump leads the former Vice-President is around the question of economic competence. So while drilling down on the $750 federal income tax figure might be tempting, I fear it would produce a similar response of “I would also do that if I could”.