Trump boasted about using tax breaks to pay next to nothing. Duckworth used a veterans benefit.

[Tom Rinaldo]

Presented as some kind of scandal. Fox News writer Dom Calicchio wrote, in a Sunday column, that Tammy Duckworth had not paid property tax on her Illinois home since 2015. True, she utilized a tax benefit available to military veterans. She lost both of her legs in combat service to America. Contrast that story to this one

"Donald Trump brags about 'brilliant' use of tax laws, which helped him skirt paying them for years

That's a New York Daily News headline from 2016, but you can find a dozen similar stories about Trump in countless media sources. Here is the story link:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-brilliantly-tax-laws-paying-article-1.2816127

Here is a snipped:

"I have brilliantly used those laws," Trump continued, to make good on a "fiduciary responsibility to pay no more taxes than is legally required."

"Or to put another way, to pay as little taxes as legally possibly," he said.

The comments were Trump's first public response to a New York Times report published Saturday night that reviewed multiple pages of his 1995 tax returns.

Trump, the returns showed according to the newspaper, declared a loss of almost $1 billion — and may have skirted federal income taxes for 18 years.

Then there is this:
"NYT: Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017"
https://www.axios.com/nyt-trump-paid-750-in-federal-income-taxes-in-2016-and-2017-b15150cd-1a05-4e6e-8f0d-7dfd2c2fa1ac.html

Today's Republicans are the standard bearers for "having no shame".

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Cult45 and its media enablers ... really are scum

And so is IQ45 himself of course.

Oh, and about that "Fiduciary Responsibility"?

Your companies aren't freaking public dude.

[calimary]

2. Absolute 100% SCUM.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. Fox News So Mad Tammy Duckworth Gets Veterans Tax Break, Like Some Kind Of Veteran!

Link to tweet

We should never expect great journalism from Fox News, and technically, the story just links to a Chicago Sun-Times article from Friday with the headline, "You Pay More In Property Taxes Because 27,288 Cook County Homeowners Pay Nothing."

The Sun-Times piece opens with the line “No one likes to pay property taxes," which is a little cynical. Surely, someone somewhere looks at their tax bill, smiles, and says, “Man, I love funding public schools."

It's true that Duckworth doesn't pay property taxes, but it's not because she claims her own home as a business expense. No, she qualifies for this exemption because she's a veteran with a disability rating of 70 percent or higher, as determined by the US Department of Veterans Affairs.

You see, Tammy Duckworth has no legs. She lost them in the Iraq War, where she served as a US Army helicopter pilot. Iraqi insurgents shot down her helicopter in 2004 with a rocket-propelled grenade. She lost both limbs in the attack, as well as some mobility in her right arm. She requested a medical waiver so she could continue to serve in the Illinois National Guard for another decade. Her injuries apparently weren't as severe as bone spurs.

We are trying to figure out, do the Sun-Times and Fox News want us to consider Duckworth a deadbeat or something?