Paying what you owe

As the patron saint of this blog, Jerry Shulman, once said, he was happy to pay taxes if he owed them.   It proved he was making money and had a successful business.  That seems to be the opposite tack of that taken by Cheeto Jesus, who continues to rally the rubes even after being exposed as a tax fraud and cheat going back decades.  I find it ironic that Jerry was a reliable republican vote during most of his life, but became fed up with the GOP in his later years as it veered further and further away from its roots.  Meanwhile, tRump mostly supported the democrats (after all, this was NYC) until the other party became corrupt enough to support a lying, tax cheating sexual assaulter for president.  It's a tale of two men and their political journeys to opposite poles.   I always respected the one and disdained the other.