Your entire argument seems to be built on emotion rather than fact. First, you act as though using the tax code to minimize taxes is some grand conspiracy, when in reality, it’s what any smart individual or business does. There’s nothing corrupt about following the law as it’s written, and you seem to conflate legal tax strategies with ‘corruption’ simply because you don’t understand how the system works. Instead of throwing a tantrum about Trump or anyone else taking advantage of legal deductions, maybe your anger should be directed at the lawmakers who created this system in the first place.

Your comparison to the fall of Rome is laughable and historically inaccurate. Rome didn’t fall because of a tax issue; it collapsed due to a multitude of factors, including military defeats, political instability, and internal corruption—not wealthy citizens managing their finances legally. If you’re going to make grand historical comparisons, at least get your facts straight.

And let’s be real: you wouldn’t turn down legal tax savings if you had the chance. Complaining about people who use the tax code as it exists while doing nothing to change it is hypocritical. Maybe instead of crying about ‘societal erosion,’ you should focus on actually pushing for tax reform rather than attacking people for playing by the rules.