No 'thought police' here. It's one thing to think it. It's another thing to print or say it. If he was wrong - so are you.
I've read your posts over the years, you're smarter than this.
Try to tell me what EXACTLY is WRONG (we are talking about morality here, aren't we?).
Many of us also have an impulse and desire to NOT pay all the taxes that we do, but we pay them.
So there is no need for your warnings and "condemnation", as you mentioned, or any righteous high-horse sanctimony. You're a good old guy, I know you well, but your comparison here is trifling.