Quote Originally Posted by LDAHL View Post
The advantage of that approach is that you will always retain finger-pointing privileges for perfectly legal activity. It's hard to conceive of any practical tax code so simple that you wouldn't be able to find some fault with "the wealthy".
That is true. And it is probably also true that the wealthy have a better means to find and use tax advantages. If there is fault it probably falls more to the law than the tax payer. That doesn't totally excuse the the use of loopholes from scrutiny and criticism.