That's not how tax write offs work. You can write that off against profits, and save around 20% - but you still lost 80% of the money. So what would be the pu

That's not how tax write offs work. You can write that off against profits, and save around 20% - but you still lost 80% of the money. So what would be the purpose of tanking it on purpose? He could just send the US Treasury the money for less trouble.