Believe me, this infuriates me too. But I view all this as a piece. Avarice is avarice, no matter who’s doing it.

I did. It’s internally leased, which is...nonsense. You’re an educated guy, I refuse to believe you don’t see what he’s doing. So then it comes down to a difference of opinion on two fundamental things: Capitalism and taxation. (Also the letter and the spirit of legislation, but that’s a woolier conversation.) So, is…

Did you not read the article?

...To use just one of your examples, you don’t see the difference between not paying taxes on a jet and contributing to a 529 — which is, by its nature designed to grow tax-free?

Naive, you mean? I know. I like it when people pay taxes so the government can afford to provide services. And I particularly like it when people wealthy enough to buy and pay taxes on a jet pay the taxes on their jet, without knocking it through a variety of subsidiaries. But fuck me, right?

You don’t see a difference between a family utilizing tax breaks and the owner of a prosperous company playing monkey in the middle with the taxes on a jet?

No. I just pay my taxes. Like a chump, apparently.

You’re fucking kidding me, right? You have to pay taxes because it’s the law. And you know why you pay taxes? To pay for infrastructure. Like roads. Police. The fire department. Defense. The fucking military. If you make more, you pay more. That’s how the system is supposed to work. It’s not a fucking maze that only…