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Let me take a shot at unpacking this. Someone who is following the law, but “not paying his ‘fair’ share” is breaking the “law.” I used the word law in the same sentence twice, but it has two different meanings given the bias of the person interpreting whether you are paying “your fair share.”

Also, the reason the IRS targets the middle class is the middle class can’t afford the specialized legal and accounting services necessary to find the exceptions which are nearly infinite. Therefore, the return on investment of IRS time is much greater on the middle class than on the wealthy.

I had an audit after I took a twenty-thousand-dollar deduction for legal services. At stake was whether the lawsuit was about theft or conversion. For one, I could take the deduction, but for the other I couldn’t. Since I knew this would happen, I had the accountant and lawyer write a letter for my files explaining why it was the one and not the other. (Due to the narrow difference any reasonable person could claim the opposite.) The kicker was, I kept the audit open for an entire year, thus ruining the agent’s closure stats. Finally, he let me go with my interpretation. Did I pay “my fair share?” Well, not according to liberals. I can tell you the agent was fuming.