Everyone [laughing] in this country does their very best to pay the least possible amount of federal income taxes.

Are you actually saying that you are more of a patriot if you don’t?

Why is this even a question?

Christ!

And every politician in this country does their very best to crush their opponent. Are you actually saying that you are a better human if you don’t?

You seem to be making the case that Romney’s use of every legal (and questionably legal) means of tax avoidance is perfectly ethical while Reid’s use of every legal means of political warfare is disgustingly immoral. I don’t buy that at all.

I appreciate your desire for a more polite and kind society but we don’t live in one, never have, and never will. Read the book “The 48 Laws of Power” and you’ll understand what makes people like Romney and Reid tick and why they are wealthy and powerful and we are not.