You're right, Merci ... we need to look at what happened. It's easy to see that our tax code is monstrous, but it's not as easy to see how that came about or how it can be changed.
Who imposed the taxes? It wasn't some intangible like "the government". It was us ... it was our representatives who enacted these tax laws. The people we elect represent us in our government went to the P. T. Barnum School of Self-Promotion ... they are experts at hokum and misdirection. While they entertained us with hoopla about trivialities, they used our money to entrench themselves and pass laws that favor their friends and "contributors".
We want to believe that those we elect to public office have our best interests at heart ... we are slow on the uptake ... it takes us a long time to accept the fact that ... They don't!!!
Those willing to look at the situation honestly and directly can see that they do not, and never did, represent us ... and that's the thing we need to change. Until we change the way we select our representatives we will continue to have the profoundly anti-human government we presently endure.
Fred
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