If you believe economic law does, or should, supersede personal ethics and/or morality, then you most certainly have a very realistic view of the world.

I'm more hopeful than that.     We are wasting human capital.   It's not a soft position, it's just realistic.   What is the cost of catching and housing a young person for the next 20 years?  Would 12 years of a great education cost the nation more or less?   Health versus sickness?   Structure vs chaos........  

I've taken advantage of the obvious tax benefits, home mortgage interest, dependent children, charitable contribution.   I never purposefully created a tax haven with the intention of avoiding tax's.  I can't hire the accountants.

You may be fatalistic, god know you've earned it, but I think the nation can do better.     I know the fear is that Democrats will create new support programs to spend any extra money collected and not pay down some debt or give it back to those that earned it.   I would be concerned as well.