A Modest Proposal for Fixing America’s Hilariously Broken Economy

Peter Thiel with Donald Trump in 2016
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Baratunde Thurston
August 8, 2021

I’ve been thinking a lot these days about taxes and the celebrated art of tax avoidance. Disclosure: I have an accountant. He’s a professional with a license and everything, and he keeps me out of I.R.S. prison, also known as prison. I also have my own S-Corporation that I run my business out of. I’ve learned it’s far better to be a corporation in the United States than a human. You literally get more respect. I take what I consider to be reasonable steps to plan my taxes such as writing off business expenses and using tax-free retirement accounts.