As one leading Democrat put it: “Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter.”
That Democrat was then-Sen. Tom Daschle in 1998. The same Tom Daschle, we’ve since learned, who failed to pay more than $100,000 in back taxes for perks he received as one of Washington’s most relentless influence-peddlers — that is, until he realized he might receive a job in the Obama administration spending the money most Americans conscientiously send to Washington
http://www.latimes.com/la-oe-goldberg3-2009feb03-column.html
Foundations are protected from scrutiny by the Prince of Darkness himself.
People putting faith in lawmakers, who create all those pages and pages of tax laws, are the problem. The stupid ones are those that “fly too close to the sun” and take shortcuts, most recent lawmakers... Renzi, Brown, Jackson, Jr., Hastert (Cover-up caused that one), Fattah, Stockman, etc...
Foundations with a lot of “suppliers” you grift from buys you a lot of leeway, because it’s “charity” after all. Buffet, Soros, Clinton, Gates, Jobs (The window now)... all play the game well and have political armor up the ying-yang.