Taxes Are No Longer About Income For Government
The myth is that taxes support government’s ability to provide essential services. Further, the myth would have us believe that tax burdens are distributed equitably, everyone doing their share.
The fact is that taxes are Congress’ tool with which to fiddle. Our Senators and Representatives use their ability to write tax law the same way bees use flowers. To make honey. The incredibly bloated K-Street conglomeration of lawyers and lobbyists exists almost entirely for the purpose of fiddling taxes on their clients’ behalf. Each self or industry-interest buys their own professional fiddler and that same interest provides funding to individual legislators so they will listen to the music.
Music, honey, bees, fiddlers, flowers—all convenient metaphors for graft. But the fact is (there's that fact again) that you and I don't have our own personal-interest fiddler. We're not supposed to need one.
There are those who rant that business and the rich don’t pay their fair share and an opposite bun…