Pence mocked for saying ‘I don’t really buy the rich need to pay their fair share’ - eviltoast
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    1 year ago

    They also simply don’t pay taxes. Tax cheats cost the US roughly a trillion dollars every year, and almost all of it is attributed to the top 5%. If you’re wealthy enough to hide your earnings, you are also wealthy enough to fight the IRS and make it too expensive to recover. It’s cheaper to buy politicians who defund the IRS than it is to pay your fair share.