But can we agree those who don’t pay their share cost those who do more?
Similar with credit card defaults or shoplifting, the losses are pushed into other fees or prices and passed along to paying customers. Strange that someone who cheats on their taxes or doesn’t repay their obligations would likely condemn a shoplifter that makes their grocery bill go up to cover the store’s shrinkage loss. And by strange I mean totally expected.
In my mind just another example of a selfish culture that gives little consideration to the greater good. That mentality is further enabled by an inclination to seek justification in a sense of victimhood or other perceived unfairness. The credit card workout commercials bother me more than the tax ones. Are you a victim of unfair predatory lending that enabled you to spend money that you didn’t have and couldn’t repay on stuff you didn’t need? No problem that’s someone else’s fault. In fact it’s the honorable thing to do to teach them a lesson by not paying and making them incur those losses pass those losses on to their customers that honor their obligations.
All of this is really just finding an excuse to justify acting purely is self interest. I don’t blame trump for this but this mentality (and it’s non-financial corollaries) contributed significantly to putting him in office.