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Why are people like you a thing? Why all the spite? Why all the desire for punishment?

Honestly, I don’t get this mindset.

When you see someone doing better than you, why is your first thought “I must put him down” instead of “I want to learn this too”.

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We're not talking about someone who's doing better than you because they worked harder or had a better idea or took a useful risk that paid off. We're just talking about someone who paid less tax than everyone else in the same situation by using a trick that is potentially criminal tax evasion and getting away with it. Calling for any unintended loophole in the tax rules to be closed is hardly "spite" or "desiring punishment".

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