Senator Lindsey Graham said, "It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally...It's a game we play...I see nothing wrong with playing the game because we set it up to be a game." Why should it be American to play with paying taxes, when you can afford to pay them and keep some government funding that help the poor. When is come to paying taxes people in America could care less about how them paying their …show more content…
Which is pay no wealth tax, they can defer their income taxes, and pay a reduced capital gains tax when they decide to cash in. The wealthy have a loophole in paying taxes where they pay a lower percent of their annual income, leaving them to have more of their money to self. Whereas the poor or middle-class families are paying a huge part of their taxes to the government.
The government does not give the poor and middle classes any break from financial hardship. Yes, there are government aids for the lower class family but yet they are given out so freely that there is a shortage, for the families who truly need the help. Most of the annual one point three trillion in tax expenditures tax subsidies, from special deductions, Special deductions such as exemptions, exclusions, credits, and loopholes goes to the top quintile of taxpayers. One estimate of total tax expenditures is a nearly unbelievable nine billion dollars a