Just because it's legal, doesn't make it right.

While it's difficult to penetrate the Republican bubble when it comes to Trump, I don't really understand why the wealthy cheating and manipulating the tax system more generally doesn't draw more outrage. I get that there's something of an intrinsic wealth - worship among conservatives that includes the " prosperity gospel " and all that. Combine that with the "taxation is theft" gibberish that they frequently espouse, and you’ve got what I can best describe as a Darwinist economic mindset. But every dollar of debt the government takes on, and then every fee that is increased, every fine or nickel - and - dime way that our payments to our government increase because of that is because the wealthy are avoiding , evading, and lying about their taxes without consequences. The rest of us… can’t do that. Even the parts of tax avoidance that ARE legal requires attorneys and accountants to exploit the loopholes that most people can’t afford. They don’t eve