[mrjin]

My point was that Tax Laws were deliberately complicated to allow some people to evade taxes. If you put that into consideration, you will find it's a lot easier to understand the status quo. Again, what you think or what I think do not matter after all.

[johnnyanmac]

It matters completely. Congress makes and changnes tax codes, people vote in congress. People need to remember they are the ones being served and they are in control. Absolving themselves of their representative's choices is the start of the downfall of the system.

[mrjin]

It should matter, but it actually doesn't matter as much as you thought as there is a level of indirection.

Just look back to the promises made before the election, how many were never fulfilled?

[hello_moto]

This is because we continuously being divided with lesser pressing issues: abortion, same-sex, universal toilet, etc.

The left or right are the same side of the coins that the rich will support no matter what.

They shun people like Bernie Sanders, Picketty, etc.

In USA, social programs = socialists = commie.

That's how bad the brainwashing is.

[mrjin]

There is a level of indirection as it should. But that indirection also adds distortions.