I personally believe that a man gotta do what a man gotta do. If I was a US citizen and wanted to cut or avoid paying taxes I would, personally, had to consider renouncing the citizenship and moving on. Laws have to be respected to a certain level of tolerance, don't forget that all governments lie to their voters at time of elections by putting spins out on political agendas, why can't we do the same?
Small/medium Businesses have always had double accounting systems, the odds of making it into middle/upper class from scratch are not extremely favourable to a regular guy nowadays, that said when have they ever been.
There is a saying - "I can explain all my millions, apart from the first one". Apart from extremely bright individuals, there is no way to achieve success by being honest 100% at all times, unless your level of success is measured by being a regular guy with no ambitions.
US is a great country in many ways, that's why I would like to confirm my point of view, that there are ways to not pay taxes or pay very little taxes, but one would have to renounce US citizenship to achieve this legally. That said, there is little point in doing so, unless your SUSTAINABLE earnings are over $200k I would say.
