"You don't like the loopholes? Close them." The problem is the loopholes extend way beyond the tax code into the election system, specifically campaign finance

"You don't like the loopholes? Close them." The problem is the loopholes extend way beyond the tax code into the election system, specifically campaign finance and things like the Citizen's United ruling and into things like the weakening of the media ownership rules which bring us a level deeper into the morass with a largely uninformed (and often just plain scared) electorate. Thus we have mostly shitty bought-off politicians (on both sides) representing "us", but mostly really representing their donors who are big business. The current system is unfair by design, as much as big corporations complain about it these issues (like taxes too high, but with plenty of loop-holes) serve as a giant moat for them to avoid the establishment of any serious competition because you have to hit a certain scale before you start to worry about things like how to hide tens of billions of dollars offshore. We are honestly probably way beyond really fixing this stuff at this point, no matter how easy it is to say "Well just fix it" or "just close the loopholes". America's entire large-corporation/government system needs something like a defrag and full reinstall, but there's basically no way to do that while keeping things running.