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In reply to the discussion: Supreme Court won't halt Trump tax record turnover [View all]mezame
(295 posts)I was hosting a party late '70's (I was in my mid-20's), and there was this guy I met (friend of a friend, etc.), and the subject somehow came up, and he actually belittled me because I paid taxes. I was made to feel a fool, an idiot, in my own home by some smarmy wise-ass - and as I write this now, I recall the feeling that if more like him proliferate, the worse it's gonna get.
I'm proud to pay my taxes. It makes me part of the Grand Experiment. Of course I would love to pay less! But I have to trust that those monies are spent for the common welfare - even for shitheads like my party guest. What makes him smarmy and 'smart' is that he knows he's ripping-off everyone else and will still reap the benefits of society (or offshore accounts, if you're corrupt-yet-still-gets elected politician).
The 'smart' ones can hide behind so many layers upon layers of misdirection and rabbit holes of 'legality' and 'blind trusts' - so seeing the lid finally pried from his cold now-politically dead hands is most satisfying.
They put Capone on Alcatraz for tax evasion. I can't wait to see the worm wriggle on the DA's hook! What a fishing expedition that will be!
There will be no unity without accountability.