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ThomasLite1/06/2019 1:27:28 pm PST

re: #131 jaunte

At some point we’ll find he’s taking that as a charitable donation.

Isn’t that *explicitly* what he’s doing? I believe consensus when it first came up was POTUS can’t actually refuse his salary for some reason (seemed wonky to me then TBH but if some fairly reputable American law profs are arguing so I’m happy to take their word for it - gov’t can be weird at times).
I mean, if that’s what he’s doing it’s AOK to take it as a charitable deduction; X USD coming in, X USD deducted, income tax effect net 0, I believe (unless I’m missing some of the vagaries of the US income tax system). Also, too: at that time it was mentioned there’s a ceiling to max charitable deductions so this would count towards that - not that I seriously believe he’s legitimately donating any amount of substance but hey, it might interfere with some other ‘creative’ schemes.