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It took four years of due process, but the House Ways and Means Committee has the last six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns.

I think this is actually doing him a favor because it helps him fulfill a promise he’s been making since at least 2012 – when he said he was looking forward to releasing his returns because they would show how successful he was at making a lot of money.

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I know Trump supporters will argue that this is highly hypocritical – further evidence that Democrats, for all their talk about privacy, are more than happy to violate the privacy of Donald Trump.

But secretly, I think Republicans are as eager to see what’s in those returns as the rest of us are.

And while I won’t deny that Trump-haters are probably hoping his tax returns are what finally puts him in the slammer, that’s not what I’m looking for. I’m not looking for punishment here – I’m looking for tax tips!

Isn’t that what most of you are looking for?

Trump may well go to jail for trying to overthrow the government – but that has nothing to do with this. This is about financial strategy.

If he is half the financial genius he claims to be, I think we are all eager to see how he did it. And I am hoping his tax strategy is 100% legal because if it is, I intend to use it.

I keep hearing billionaires have these amazing strategies that only a select few understand – and I sense that, with the release of Trump’s returns, we ordinary middle-class minions could be on the cusp of getting the keys to the kingdom.

The ultimate secret to the lucrative –but legal– tax strategies of the super-rich.

The secret for not just to making money, but keeping what you make.

And if, God forbid, it turns out his secret is nothing more than tax fraud – or selling $99 photoshopped fungus-proof superhero snapshots, I will promptly scrub this commentary from the ³ÉÈËXÕ¾ website.

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