OPINION - Donald Trump was berated by the democrats and progressives in the United States for not releasing his taxes. People were assuming he was trying to hide his taxes and what he does but he has been transparent about his taxes since his 2016 Presidential Campaign. The fixation of the mainstream media on Trump's taxes amounted to nothing substantial. Not only did the release of his taxes reveal to us that he paid his required taxes, but also it revealed that the hate-mongering by the Democrats was completely unneeded.
Trump's taxes are not important and were never important. He has stated on the campaign trail that he has paid his taxes and utilized losses to his advantage. On one hand, we have Democrats calling Trump a failed businessman for having bankruptcies and losses, but it turns out he and his advisers are well-versed in tax policy. Trump, like many other business people in the US, paid his taxes and used the benefits and deductions that people like Hillary Clinton supported. The tax policy was written by the same politicians who dislike Donald Trump.
This endeavor to get Trump to release his taxes has nothing to do with transparency and everything to do with a political witch hunt against an individual who has hired tax professionals to lower his taxable income. Essentially, they are mad that Trump does what the vast majority of tax filers do; they look for the best way to lower their taxable income. Basically, this wasn't just a political witch hunt against Donald Trump, this was an attack on American citizens who pay taxes.
Democrats are not after transparency, they are after your money as the hard workers you are. Every single American wants to pay fewer taxes, Donald Trump isn't special in that.