Ever since the presidential campaign started, the radical left has dined out on the idea that President Trump refused to release his taxes because he never paid any.  The endless shibboleth was in line with the old Occupy Wall Street canard that billionaires are this 1% of the population who live tax-free while the rest of us in the 99% always pay through the nose.  There is a tax-shirking 1%, all right, as the left has always claimed, but it took internet mavens such as Matt Drudge to show that these chiselers tend to be Democratic Party elites, legally or otherwise, finding a way out of paying the taxes they would sock to the rest of us.  Bernie Sanders (13%), Barack Obama (19%), MSNBC (24%), and other names have come up. Fact is, Trump pays his taxes like the rest of us.  He gets no special breaks; he gets no special treatment.  He shelled out for taxes at a 25% rate of income, quite comparable to what the average taxpayer pays....(Read Full Post)