How The Super Rich Ruling Class Designed The IRS To Rob Everyone Else For Their Personal Gain
By Claire Bernish
ActivistPost.com
JANUARY 1, 2016
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark
While most of us are saddled with the burden of taxes, income tax, sales tax, etc., ad infinitum, the über-wealthy in the U.S. have essentially created their own I.R.S. — gaming the system so adeptly, it has essentially become their employee. But, wait, you might be thinking, those ultra-wealthy billionaires worked hard for those riches! Though that might certainly be true to an extent, how they’ve put the I.R.S. to work for them — manipulating the State to gain an advantage almost incomprehensible to most of us — makes these currency-movers and law-manipulators a special brand of leech.
Gaming the system has become somewhat an art form for the wealthiest of the wealthy, and they staff financial managers whose job it is to detect and exploit tax loopholes — or lobby to create them where none exist. Literally.
“There’s this notion that the wealthy use their money to buy politicians; more accurately, it’s that they can buy policy, and specifically, tax policy,” explained senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Jared Bernstein. “That’s why these egregious loopholes exist, and why it’s so hard to close them.”
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