well, if your friend who you have so much nuanced selective sympathy for :-D will open her future educated lawyers' mind and eyes and will very clearly see what deep S*** this administration inherited.....and for the first year in office their priorities were stabilizing our economy , not dealing with taxes.
Patience is a virtue - you friend, coming from hard circumstances must know that(ch) .
Soon enough she will be nicely educated and can start working for some lobbying firm:-D .
Didn't we live on very little when we just got here and were studying? We did. Didn't complain about taxes, just worked our butts of , because once you get this good education, like your friend is doing ( smart!) it really is not how much you pay in taxes, but how much you keep.
We are taxed at much lower rates then many European countries.

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