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DCReport’s investigation into how Trump and others like him enjoy robust opportunities to cheat on their taxes with little risk of detection shows how for decades Congress has handcuffed our tax police. It’s as if your local mayor and city council told their police officers to focus on tricycle thefts, not violent crimes, and wouldn’t pay for testing equipment and chemicals in the crime lab.
We relied in part on a database maintained by the TRAC, the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University. DCReport donors generously contributed money to purchase access to that database and to pay a Rochester Institute of Technology student to organize the data for analysis. Much of the data TRAC gets had to be extracted from our government through litigation over the public’s right to know what our government is doing.
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