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They are grifters. ... dishonest.

But in this case? You can say it is unseemly and be like, "Really?"

But this is the tax code the state of NJ set up. They are actually doing nothing illegal if they get it all set up correctly and there is actually a cemetery there. It's not like the schemes to value buildings one way for tax purposes and then value them higher for insurance purposes. Or any of the countless illegal things they have done -- and continue to do -- to steal from others.

I sometimes feel so out of the mainstream, but when I saw these stories last week, my initial reaction wasn't so much anger at Trump or his kids, even if I laughed and thought, "They would have sold her eyeballs the minute the body was cold if they had a buyer." My reaction was more, "Why do we have a tax code that can be exploited that way in the first place?" The cemetery business can be very profitable and lucrative for someone. Why exactly do they get exempt from all income tax, property taxes, fees, etc. when some other guy who runs a business selling a different good or service might have to turn over 10.75 percent of his income to the state, plus pay the highest property taxes in the country? How much money changed hands to get those tax benefits? It's so patently unfair in not treating equal citizens equally.

I find Trump as ridiculous and unseemly as any of you do for this, but the only thing he's really guilty of (until he inevitably crosses a line) with this, is being willing to be ridiculous to look like he is exploiting the tax code. Isn't the tax code the problem?

Ill also say this up front. ... Most of Trump's signature businesses, including his golf courses, lose money hand over fist (he uses them to lower his taxes. ... a la that NY Times expose). So if that Bedminster club loses money, technically putting a cemetery there would not help on the income tax side; it would help on property taxes. At some point, none of us would be surprised to find that Trump was writing off losses on the golf club AND taking an illegal write off of some sort for the cemetery. If that turns out to be the case, it obviously takes it out of the realm of what I was saying above where he isn't technically doing anything illegal.