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- tax avoidance is legal. tax evasion is not. tax avoidance is choosing to make a contribution to your IRA this year so that you are in a lower income tax bracket, or choosing to be a stay-at-home parent instead of paying daycare costs. tax avoidance is also keeping the majority of your wealth tied up in stocks. tax evasion is using illegal methods to conceal income or falsely reporting income in order to pay less tax. you want tax avoidance to be legal because if tax avoidance is not legal then the above stay-at-home parent could be fined. you want tax avoidance to be legal. i cannot stress this enough. if you say a billionaire doesn’t pay taxes because they are evading taxes, i have to ask, have they been audited recently? many of the wealthiest people manage their money in perfectly legal ways. this should scare you far more than the idea that they’re evading taxes should. 

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