There are probably not a lot of Americans that like paying taxes, although there are a lot of Americans that understand the necessity of taxes having to be paid to our Government. When it comes to America's tax code, there is a massive and unfair line drawn that separates the "unconnected" and "unenlightened" taxpayers from those "special" taxpayers that have either the means to hire or to utilize the output of the best and brightest tax attorneys and accountants, or lobbyists, or possibly having the ear of important members of Government agencies, such as members of Congress, and the like. The bottom line when it comes to paying taxes is that the more simple and the more straightforward that our tax code is, the better that we can be assured that it is indeed being equally applied to all. However, we know for a certainty, that this is not the case in America, as according to the taxfoundation.org our tax code is 70,000 pages, although it is claimed by: "Andrew Grossman, the legislation counsel for the Joint Committee on Taxation that helps write tax laws … it’s “only” 2,600 pages."
Few of the truly rich and powerful in America have any interest whatsoever in paying their "fair" share of taxes. While they can justify their attitude on a lot of different levels, and some of that justification is absolutely correct, the most basic reason why the rich don't want to pay more than then have to in taxes, is all about the basic principle that the more money that you have or the more money that you control, the more stuff that you can therefore use money for, for example, to better yourself, or your family, or your compatriots, and basically to maintain control or undue influence over the thingsthat you consider most important to you. For an absolute certainty, whether the money that a man has obtained or earned has come through legitimate means or through somewhat questionable ones, most rich people, considers that money to be theirs, only theirs, and have little interest in departing with any of it, unless it is on their terms.
Not too surprisingly, with that sort of attitude in mind, and with the staggering aggregate numbers that are being bantered about being in the billions upon billions of dollars, there is going to be plenty of motivated people, that will work very hard, to provide and to recommend various tax shelters so that certain people, can say, and possibly mean it, that they pay all of their taxes due that are required by law. Whether that is a literal truth or not, is best left to the tax gods to sort out, but in essence, what it really means, is that their tax shelters work effectively and they're therefore pleased by that.
The crux of the problem, however, is that the tax shelters that are utilized are both an inherent and unfair advantage that the rich have over the rest of us, whether the wealthy are using and misusing charitable trusts, or grantor retained annuity trusts, or tax-deferred retirement plans, or step-up in basis for assets transfers, or the parking of money in offshore accounts, or anything that is able to take current income and reduce it substantially through the "tricks of the trade" will suffice.
The bottom line is that when the rich truly do not pay their fair share of their tax obligation, and they often do not, it becomes demonstrative proof that the game is rigged, that the sucker is all those that do pay their fair share, grudgingly or not, and our country and its posterity are far the worse for it.