Politico posted a history lesson from 40 years ago, detailing the time voters found out that Sen. Bill Brock, a Tennessee Republican, paid almost no taxes.
It was all perfectly legal (just as Trump’s $900 million-plus loss appears to be squarely within what our broken tax code permits). But the idea that a wealthy U.S. senator was paying a rate far below that of a middle-class factory worker proved devastating politically—especially when across Tennessee, buttons appeared reading: “I paid more taxes than Bill Brock.”
His campaign never recovered.
Politico goes on to wonder if the same thing would happen if someone were to start stamping out campaign buttons that read: “I paid more taxes than Donald Trump.”
Any takers? Anybody want to make t-shirts, banners, buttons, bumper stickers, wig glue, sleep masks, flasks, or whatever you can think of? At the VERY LEAST, let’s get #IPaidMoreTaxesThanTrump trending on Twitter.