> This is legal. That has yet to be determined. Tax law does recognize acts whose sole or primary purpose is to avoid taxes (i.e. not as a side effect of other

> This is legal. That has yet to be determined. Tax law does recognize acts whose sole or primary purpose is to avoid taxes (i.e. not as a side effect of other business purposes) as evasion, and evasion is illegal. Just because such cases are very hard to prosecute successfully, and are rarely prosecuted at all for that or other reasons, doesn't make an illegal act legal. > I expect that you also make 0 deduction That's an incredibly shallow argument. Those who identify a problem don't have to be martyrs. In particular, those who identify inequity are under no obligation to increase it at their own expense before it can be addressed. I'll be glad to give up my exemptions when the tax code is fixed for everybody, not while others are still benefiting from its flaws. Policy and decisions and personal benefit should be separate. We should respect those who will argue for a policy change out of principle, even when that means giving something up, and not demand that they give up more. The people we really shouldn't trust are those who never argue for a policy that doesn't benefit them. That's called corruption.