their presence on the luxury property helps lower the resort's tax bill. trump saves tens of thousands of dollars a year by farming goats and hay in bedminster. that's according to an analysis of his bedminster township property taxes by "the huffington post." "the wall street journal" has reported in the past that trump is taking advantage of a new jersey farmland law designed to prevent overdevelopment in the state. but let's be clear here. trump's bedminster golf resort is located in wealthy horse country, hardly a part of the garden state that's under threat of overdevelopment. yet it's all part of the same pattern that "the new york times" exposed about trump last fall. the trump organization has a history of lowering the value of its property as a way to lower the taxes it owes. the "times" also reported the trump family has spent decades coming up with ways to dodge taxes in order to build their wealth. so in case of bedminster and the goats and the hay farm, the general public is basically subsidizing president trump and his golf club members to play