Tell this to the farmers he's ruining with bad trrade policy

A HuffPost analysis of the taxes paid by the various tracts that make up Trump National Golf Club Bedminster shows that Trump is paying $88,067 less in property taxes in 2019 than he would have had those acres been taxed at the average rate of the land in the remainder of the golf resort.

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According to his golf course’s latest filing with Bedminster Township to justify its “farmland assessment” tax break, Trump maintains eight goats and farms hay on 113.2 acres. Another 70.6 acres of adjacent woods are also set aside as agricultural, so that a total of 183.8 of the golf resort’s 514 acres are taxed at a much lower rate ― just over $6 an acre, rather than $462.

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Allan Sampson, the “farm operator” listed on Trump’s farmland assessment application, said he plants and harvests the hay but knew nothing of the animals. “I don’t deal with the goats,” he said, declining to provide details about his financial arrangement with the golf resort.

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THe is reportedly receiving a similar agricultural break for his golf resort in Colts Neck, New Jersey. And in municipalities stretching from Ossining, New York, to Chicago to Palm Beach, Florida, Trump has sued to lower his property taxes, claiming that his hotels and golf resorts are really only worth a fraction of what he says they are worth on his financial disclosure forms, according to ProPublica.

“No doubt Trump aims to milk this farm exemption for whatever he can,” Weissman said.

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he White House also did not respond to goat-related queries.

  HuffPo

And I won't make any comments about the possible parentage of the old goat's Bedminster kids.