donald trump is taking time off from the campaign this morning for the grand opening of his new hotel in washington. he s at the ribbon cutting right now. trump has been aggressive in fighting to pay as little tax as possible while his dozens of properties and that includes his latest new hotel. cnn s senior investigative correspondent drew griffin has been looking in this for us. good morning. reporter: good morning. you know, many of us who have houses like to challenge our property tax bill when we get it, but what we found in our study of donald trump s properties is almost the second he acquires a property, he starts pressuring the local governments to lower his taxes. it s the shiniest new example of trump s success. the old d.c. post office project has turned a crumbling washington landmark into a luxury pennsylvania avenue hotel. when it s completed, it will be truly one of the great hotels of the world. reporter: a double win for
i will cut spending. didn t cut spending. the list goes on. i will cut taxes. restore your prompt tax rebates. he raises property taxes. how does this work in new jersey? he cut the program and turned it into a direct credit. not only did he significantly reduce how much, most low income. middle-class homeowners and seniors receive. he converted it. instead of receiving a rebate check. you can then go out and spend. transferred into a direct credit on your property tax bill. shows up as a line when you get your tax bill. you no longer get that check. if this was the campaign commercial a month after he won election, i think that the results may have been a lot different. i think the takeaway is what he found is it is a lot harder when you are running the state and you are in control of the budget than when on the outside and you are criticizing the guy who is. crystal, it seems that he that he tries how to work this reputation as the straight
the other piece of magical thinking, remind me of paul ryan. he projects that lowering taxes on businesses and on, millionaires is going to somehow magically increase revenue. he has a lot of rosie predictions about the state s growth that when it doesn t come to pass his revenue projections fall far short of what was originally anticipated. he has to grab money from the other pots to fill the gap. john, we just saw the video. he ran for governor saying here s exactly what i will do as governor. exactly what i will do. i will cut spending. didn t cut spending. the list goes on. i will cut taxes. restore your prompt tax rebates. he raises property taxes. how does this work in new jersey? he cut the program and turned it into a direct credit. not only did he significantly reduce how much, most low income. middle-class homeowners and seniors receive. he converted it. instead of receiving a rebate check. you can then go out and spend. transferred into a direct credit on your property
can t do the activities and that s unfair and against the scope of public education. you re not supposed to be able to buy more benefits. however, you can t keep dumping your neighbor with a higher property tax bill to pay the skyrocketing costs. this issue is paying for those costs and parents who can afford it should have to pay a pupil tax, let s say, you ve got five kids in school and let s say you re a renter you re not paying property tax, but poor kids who can t afford these fees should not get burdened with them. that s against the scope of it. it s not private school and on the private school note. private kids don t have to pay for the special ed and special needs kids. they won t get into the public schools, private schools, you can t compare those costs dollar for dollar. john, what do you think about it? i think this is not a partisan issue. look, every president says they re an education president. our system has continually deteriorated despite bright spots. my siste
dollars. think what you could do with that money. parents don t know and parents don t get the bill. says the problem. if you go and buy a service to miss a you want to send the package, you are presented with the cost of doing that. in public schooling the most you will see that you might see your property tax bill. even that, you have the fuse that cost through lots of people who don t have children. also sales taxes. so you don t know the price of all the things you re demanding the sound good. and the worst part is ultimately even a good sounding things don t produce good results. john: thank you. next protest in wisconsin? these people are part of the blob. most remember the teachers union. they lost this fight. two years later we can see the results. so what are they? so what are they? that s n