This is totally unaligned with my experience. Yes, the wealthy can afford to find ways to cheat on everything. But all segments of society are dodging taxes.

This is totally unaligned with my experience. Yes, the wealthy can afford to find ways to cheat on everything. But all segments of society are dodging taxes. As a middle-class salaried employee, your income is taxed down to the last decimal place. But if you work in the trades, or anything else where many transactions are handled in cash, then tax evasion is _rampant_. And you know who is usually party to that? The tradespeople AND the relatively wealthier folks giving them envelopes of cash in exchange for a "discount" because the transaction isn't reported. Will those stop? Probably not. But at least in larger sums it should make people afraid of dodging their tax burden.