Why not? What right do you have to make demands on his time or energy? Do you get a free pass from scrutiny? Tell us how you’ve brought positive change to the world since 2016, OK?

How he spends his free time is his business. He doesn’t have to explain or justify anything he does. 

After 20 years of living under your microscope he’s living his life and screw you if you don’t like it.

Yes, he does.

He gets the biggest free pass.

Are you kidding me? The racist electorate of the USA elected Donald fucking Trump in response to him being in power 8 years. The same Donald fucking Trump that is now spending every waking moment undoing everything he did. And he abandoned his public?

Taking some well deserved rest after 8 stress filled years is now considered abandonment? If I were him, I’d peace out permanently if that was some ingrate’s attitude.

He only had the most stressful job in the fucking world for eight fucking years. He’s a fucking private fucking citizen and can do whatever the fuck he wants.

THIS^. The thing that no conservative tax crusader will ever tell you is that probably 90% of the tax code only applies to people in about the top 2%. Period. We’re talking about the vast majority of the tax code exists purely for a few thousand corporations and people.

The argument about the complexity of the tax…

The bracket simplification argument really burns me. We could go to 10,000 brackets and the computer I’m typing this on could probably compute every US taxpayer’s income tax in about 4 days, maybe 4 hours.

But NOOOO: “Reduce the number of brackets, THAT’S what makes the tax code so complex!” Lying liars with pants on…

Exactly. Everyone is so concerned about “I’ll save $474 in taxes. Woohoo - new TV!” or “Bill Gates will be paying only $7.8 million in taxes - Boo!” that they are ignoring what those taxes pay for. Tax cuts are only feasible if spending cuts go right along with it. We are TRILLIONS in debt as a nation..and no one…

Can’t star this enough. Where are those deficit hawks?!? Didn’t we have a budget surplus before the Bush tax cuts? Aren’t these tax cuts going to increase our deficit by over a TRILLION dollars?

Taxes being raised on income below $418K is not giving up everything you worked so hard (debatable) for.

What’s super fucked is the fact that lots of people idolize the 50's and 60's. One of the defining features of the 5o’s and 60's? Sweet, sweet gubmint cash. Schools were super well funded. Christ, you could get driver’s ed in your average high school up until practically the 80's. That’s like $400-500 right there. You…

Correct re: brackets. You can have two brackets or 200 brackets. Doesn’t matter since it’s just a matter of looking up your income and finding it on the chart. So it takes six seconds longer to find your bracket among the 199 others. It makes no difference in “simplifying” the tax code. Wanna simplify? Every dollar…

Don’t forget the followup to the tax cuts - oh wow, now the deficit has exploded, we have no choice now but to cut health care, unemployment benefits, or anything else that benefits mainstream America.

The whole thing is a lie, the “savings” they discuss is based on a higher personal exemption while taking away more valuable deductions. I would be paying $3,000 more under the Trump Plan. The biggest lie is that a lot of tax brackets mean that the tax code is complicated. For most people the tax code is quite…

Pretty much this. Meaningful wealth redistribution from the wealthy to the poor will not occur in this country without violent revolution. In the meantime, would it be too much to ask that the wealthy stop bleeding whatever little the poor have left?

Seriously.