Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the Trump tax returns

zanhar1 True tho.

zanhar1 Worst part is, if a waitress or an immigrant tried to evade taxes they'd be fined to hell and back and possibly arrested. But if the 1% does it then they get a slap on the wrist if even that.

ThePrincesTale ^Yeeeeeeeep. Unfortunately this is far from exceptional - billionaires/millionaires avoid paying taxes. Tax evasion is pretty much standard operation practice for these people and the IRS seems to take a hands-off attitude; indeed, the bigger the cheat, the less likely the IRS is to bother them. All of the force and terror of the IRS and the Department of Justice are brought to bear against the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder; those at the top are generally given a pass -- unless, like Al Capone, their taxes can be used as leverage to hold them accountable for other crimes for which the government lacks sufficient evidence for prosecution. The exposure of the myriad of loopholes that allow the 1% to avoid taxes should be rocking the country in a time of hyper-unemployment and collapsing economic ecosystem... There's a bigger story here than just the 2020 election.