Why all the undeserved credit for FDR? He was a well-managed 'agent' for the sociopaths who have manipulated the political strings of this country since day one of our Republic. Look to the people that were 'behind' him, just like now (can you say, 'David Axelrod', 'Rahm Emanuel' (before Axelrod)),etc., etc., etc.
Taxation? Here's a quote by former Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland: "The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. Most people in this country have NO CLUE about the correct application of the Internal Revenue Code to the citizens of the 50 states."