Trump is proud of evading paying federal income tax and says he's smart for doing so. Are those patriotic Americans who do pay federal income tax dummies? Do we average Americans pay more because people like Trump avoid paying their fair share? What if we all copied Trump and found ways to pay no federal income tax? Obviously, the United States would cease to exist. And how did the loopholes in the tax code that Trump used get there in the first place? Because the Trumps of our society bought politicians in Washington and paid them to put the loopholes there.