[fastball]

How is that hypocritical? Individuals try to minimize their taxes. So do companies. Except a company isn't actually benefitting because a country is just a collective.

Do you have a child? Do you not deduct that child in your taxes? What about a mortgage? Donations to charity? Etc. etc.

[n4r9]

The hypocrisy is that he's publicly taken a principled stance about paying taxes whilst actually going against that in private.

> Individuals try to minimize their taxes.

This is an oversimplification. For example, I might vote for a party that would raise my own taxes, and happily pay those taxes if I thought good use was being made of them.