Three points:

1) If anyone was even mildly surprised by this, then I’d have to say they never followed or thought about this issue. (Many wealthy folks arrange for all their “income” to be from dividends of stocks… and thus, they pay no tax on that income. That’s been true for my whole life, and I’m not young.)

2) Has anyone with these “deep, thoughtful” takes on this issue looked at the list of folks whose taxes were released? Did anyone notice that every last one of them said something unsupportive of the previous President, at some point? Notice how Trump’s taxes were not, in fact, “leaked”? Weird, huh? It’s *almost* as if it were politically motivated.

3) It is, in fact, a black-letter violation of law for these records to have been leaked. Crimes are supposed to get investigated, even if one believes one has benefitted indirectly from that crime.

I mean to say: Anyone who thinks the story here is “the rich pay no taxes” is likely to be similarly surprised by the news that the Earth’s orbit around the sun is so regular it can be predicted, trivially, with micro-second accuracy. And, since the House and Senate publicly voted, a few years back, (to great fanfare), to put many huge corporations into the exact same situation as these wealthy folks, the faux outrage at the situation looks just a tad disingenuous.