http://www.theotherpaper.com/news/article_db880af2-6782-11e0-856d-001cc4c03286.htmlLots of other people live tax-free, too. I have Donald Trump's tax records for four years early in his career. He paid no taxes for two of those years. Big real-estate investors enjoy tax-free living under a 1993 law President Clinton signed. It lets "professional" real-estate investors use paper losses like depreciation on their buildings against any cash income, even if they end up with negative incomes like Trump.
David Cay Johnston is a columnist for tax.com and teaches the tax, property and regulatory law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law and Whitman School of Management.
He has also been called the "de facto chief tax enforcement officer of the United States" because his reporting in The New York Times shut down many tax dodges and schemes, just two of them valued by Congress at $260 billion.
Johnston received a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for exposing tax loopholes and inequities. He wrote two bestsellers on taxes, Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch.