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by DanBC 5166 days ago
Rich people can afford good accountants and lawyers. Tax avoidance[1] skirts the edge of tax evasion[2], but that's what the good accountants are for.

Putting different taxes on the owners of some corporation just means that no-one owns the corporation and that everyone is an employee.

[1] Avoidance is legally using loopholes to reduce a tax bill.

[2] Evasion is illegally using loopholes, or just plain not paying tax.