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conix/Dream, actually the left, some center, and even some on the right see the U.S.A. for what it is

Trump and the Aristocracy of Fraud
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This is a big number. If America’s wealthy evade taxes on the same scale (which they almost surely do), they’re probably costing the government around as much ..

If that was only 3/4 of what they really owed, that's $40 billion of cheating right there. Plus more evasion, though not on the same scale, for the merely as opposed to filthy rich. Say >$60 billion a year? 6/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) October 4, 2018

.. as the food stamp program does. And they’re also using tax evasion to entrench their privilege and pass it on to their heirs, which is the real Trump story.

The obvious question is, what are our elected representatives doing about this epidemic of cheating? Well, Republicans in Congress have been on the case .. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/business/economy/irs-tax-fraud-audit.html?module=inline .. for years: They’ve been systematically defunding the Internal Revenue Service, crippling its ability to investigate tax fraud. We don’t just have government by tax cheats; we have government of tax cheats, for tax cheats.

What we’re learning, then, is that the story of what’s happening to our society is even worse than we thought. It’s not just that the president of the United States is, as veteran tax reporter David Cay Johnston put it, a “financial vampire .. http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-johnston-trump-cons-and-cheats-20181004-story.html ,” cheating taxpayers the way he has cheated just about everyone else who deals with him.

Beyond that, our trend toward oligarchy — rule by the few — is also looking more and more like kakistocracy — rule by the worst, or at least the most unscrupulous. The corruption isn’t subtle; on the contrary, it’s cruder than almost anyone imagined. It also runs deep, and it has infected our politics, quite literally up to its highest levels.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=144051354

The Left really cannot stand the fact that this country is not as LEFT as they imagine it is.

To conix, Dream, rooster, ForReal and other blinkered conservatives who are allowed the privilege of posting here
(while there is at least one iHub conservative board who says openly they don't want any liberals in their
insular little cubicle), what do you say about the situation Krugman has described clearly above?

Truthfully, i must have missed all the posts by you people decrying that situation.