Comment by mistrial9

I see this as a cynical mass-media emphasis on an individual tax case, while a multi-national corporate tax-evasion party continues larger than ever. -- As a US citizen with some decades behind me, I can say that the US has lost balance with taxes badly. On the one hand there are "illegal" laborers with no working benefits and little protection, paying who-knows-what for tax; secondly, in the 90s, international money transfer by corporations ran rampant for tax evasion. The Clinton's became super-powers on Wall Street for turning a blind eye to it, and later the Ms. of the family became essentially the official enabler of this with the US State Department Foriegn Aid office ($8 billion a year slush fund, on top of dollar-based commerce tax evasion). Saavy multi-national corporations pay little to no tax here, and it is widely documented.

Meanwhile, a 20-something engineer at a six-figure salary can tell you how much of that they get to keep. (hint about half here in California)