[pepsionice]

No one is really cheating....they all utilize the 80,000 pages of federal tax code to their advantage. They pay accountants who are experts on the code, and everything is legit.

So unless some idiot wants to dump the 80,000 pages and go to a standardized 10-percent tax, with no credits and zero out all of the hundreds of thousands of angles....I don’t see this changing.

Getting to some point where everyone pays their fair share....means that 50-percent of Americans go from paying zero....to paying something, and way too much money in the federal pot, which they would just build a thousand bridges a year to ‘nowhere’.

[a fool in paradise]

That “code” doesn’t just happen. They pay for such laws to be enacted. It’s cheaper than paying the taxes they insist YOU should be paying more of.

[farming pharmer]

No one is really cheating....they all utilize the 80,000 pages of federal tax code to their advantage. They pay accountants who are experts on the code, and everything is legit.

Which they hardly mention, if at all, in this article.

[griswold3]

Avoidance is legal (Judge Learned Hand)
Evasion is illegal.

[1Old Pro]

No one is really cheating....they all utilize the 80,000 pages of federal tax code to their advantage. They pay accountants who are experts on the code, and everything is legit.

Pretty much agree with that.

[Fledermaus]

They don’t take income so pay no income tax. Most take capital gains and pay that tax.