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human
CMV: Paying less taxes isn’t a bad thing.

I personally don't agree with Trump's policies but about the huge scandal with him only paying 750 in taxes I don't see what's the problem. I agree it’s a shocking number but I don’t see what’s wrong. The whole point of the tax code is to reduce taxes and he followed the tax code and this whole thing is legal.

Tom Wheelwrite, the dude who wrote tax free wealth (I'm reading RN) talks about how how the tax code is literally written for ppl to reduce their taxes. The tax code is 5,800 pages of tax law, only about 30 pages are devoted to actually raising taxes. The rest is reducing taxes. Basically the whole point of it is that it allows the govt to sway where ppl spend more money like clean energy, real estate, etc. 

Judge	Learned Hand, a	former	 judge	on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said “Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike, and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”


{all of my info is from the book, it’s a pretty cool book, this is what he said and from what I read I agree with him}
gpt
Of course there is nothing wrong with Trump, or anyone else, working within the law to reduce their tax bill. The issue is with the tax code itself.

The whole point of taxes is that citizens contribute to the cost of running the country, how much everyone should contribute depends on your political ideology but it's universally accepted that the poor shouldn't contribute more than the rich.

Salaried employees (mostly middle and working class) have little ability to effect how much tax they pay, it comes directly out of their pay cheque. Business owners and the rich are different, they often aren't salaried and so pay their taxes differently to everyone else. Thanks to the complexity of the tax code there are numerous ways they can reclassify their earnings to be tax exempt, they can also afford to pay accountants who are able to exploit the tax code to pay the minimum amount with the result that they pay significantly less tax than could be considered reasonable.

This is why using the tax code to pay less tax is bad, it means the rich can avoid paying a reasonable contribution which puts an unfair tax burden on the poor which subverts the intent of the tax system.

Edited for typos.