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A dozen years. he was it was all legal. they don't understand how to write tax codes. he also understands how to fight local taxes and property taxes too. cnn analyzed 26 properties across the country owned by trump. in all but one trump had his attorneys fight to lower the assessed tax value so he could pay less in property taxes. the trump campaign didn't respond when he asked for comment. >> the trump campaign did respond to his article in the "new york times" saying the times and tax experts are engaged in pure speculation. and according to the statement either don't understand the law or ...

Buildings, golf courses and homes. like in the district of columbia, where the current battle over this old post office could cost the district thousands and thousands of dollars annually. d.c. originally assessed the hotel at $98 million. donald trump says his assessed property tax value, the possessory income tax as it's called here should be reduced to $28 million. tax expert lee shepherd says this is exactly how big property owners do business. >> everyone with a big commercial building does that. everyone. this is how the system works. >> reporter: another case in point, the stunning trum...

Down to these lower brackets. are you talking a housing deduction, house pricing will fall with an after tax value of your mortgage payment. well, i think, you know, i thought insulation because of a tax break. all of this consumerism happens because it granted shouldn't be there. to make them go poof overnight. >> jonas, to have more money in your pocket? how much consumerism would that cause? if you didn't go out and spend all the money on your accounttant, you would have more money to spend at home depot. >> i'm glad you brought that up. someone who makes $10 million a year, i'm not quite t...

Health care reform in this country really is a redistribution of wealth. >> it is. >> so if they're trying to redistribute things, stuart, if they tacked a vat on, that would not be helpful to the people they're trying to give the money from the top to the bottom. >> look at alone health care reform is increment redistribution. looked at in total entitlement and how to pay for them, that comes down the food chain, everybody pays a bit more. >> once you start this, you can't stop. >> no going back. >> i remember when it was started, they said here comes the vat. pretty soon, we'll be able to re...

Quite value. that's one of the allegations we have heard, free cars, free apartments, free tuition. what that adds up to and what was the lost tax value to new york. if they believe they should have paid packs on them and they didn't, how much actual money was lost. that's going to go a long way to determining how bad are the penalties or the possible penalties for weisselberg. >> to that point, andrew, if it was huge apartments, free cars, not paying taxes on them, what would that mean in terms of how serious the charges would be? because when you just hear, oh, he want paying taxes on perks,...