Rana Foroohar, Just Stop Moaning and Pay Your Taxes, Fin. Times (May 24, 2026):

The idea that taxes are something we should spend inordinate amounts of time, money and emotional resources avoiding is quite commonplace among wealthy Americans. . . .

What might change things? The rich, and even the upper middle classes, aren’t inclined to fix things, whether they vote Republican or Democrat. We most likely need a political coalition between the poor and the working middle class to overhaul the system (something that a new generation of progressives is promising). . . .