We know this shambolic mound of barnyard dung will do just about anything to screw over his fellow man, but does he have to bring innocent animals into it?
In case you were playing the special 10-million-square Trump-is-an-asshole bingo game, you can now blot out the “he swindles the people of New Jersey out of thousands in tax dollars by keeping goats on his golf course” space.
From The Wall Street Journal, via Business Insider:
President Donald Trump is able to pay tens of thousands of dollars less in property taxes on his New Jersey golf courses because of a goat herd, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Citing public records, The Journal reported in 2016 that Trump had been able to save thousands of dollars in property taxes on his two properties in Bedminster — where he is this week for a "working vacation" — and Colts Neck. Because the properties have a goat herd, as well as hay farming and woodcutting, New Jersey law permits them to receive a farmland tax break.
Therefore, Trump pays reduced property taxes on the parts of his golf courses dedicated to farming, the report says.
Granted, Trump’s head is permanently stuck in the Bronze Age, but he ain’t no damn goat herder. But, hey, he’s also pretending to be a successful businessman and a human being, so it’s par for the course, really.
Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster maintains 113 acres of hay farming and eight goats, and the property in Colts Neck has 40 acres of hay production and trees, The Journal reported, citing tax-break applications reviewed in 2016 during the presidential campaign.
The Journal estimated that Trump paid less than $1,000 a year in property taxes on land that would typically require roughly $80,000.
The farmland-assessment program Trump is benefitting from was added to the New Jersey Constitution in 1963 to prevent overdevelopment in the already crowded Garden State, the report says.
So the grifter-in-chief strikes again.
Seriously, what won’t this billowing monkey hemorrhoid try to get away with? It boggles the mind.
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