Alice Wilder

Okay, she says, Let's talk taxes and how, as Americans, we seem to have a belief system that if you don't find a way to reduce your taxes, you're not being smart.

Like, we've built cheating into the system."

And yet, we all know our government has a big deficit, and we still want services to be provided.

But it's hard to see or feel the direct line between paying our taxes and how we benefit.

And then there's the guilt about trying to pay less.

This may be a me thing, but I make around $180,000 a year as a single mom.

I'm not a billionaire, but I'm also not struggling.

I feel a social obligation to help those who need more services and breaks, which I do through volunteering and donating.

Okay, Reema, what is your reaction to that?

I thought it was interesting that she used the word cheating, like we've built cheating into the system.

And I'm like, I don't think that's cheating.

Like taking all the deductions you possibly can isn't cheating.

It's I think that the government assumes that everyone is going to do that.

And they put those tax breaks in there intentionally to say like, OK, maybe we're not going to have universal parental leave for child care.

What we will give you is a credit for child care, which, you know, big gulf between those two things.

But it is, like, something that we're being given.

And so, like, I don't know.

I'm not a parent.

But I'm like, why not take that?

If they're putting it on the table, take it.