We all know that the IRS is a fraud.That our taxes go to pay back the interest and never the principal.

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We all know the lyrics. They’re buried deep in the DNA of a generation:

Let me tell you how it will be/There’s one for you, nineteen for me/Because I’m the taxman, yeah/I’m the taxman.

The Beatles, of course, knew whereof they sang. If anyone had tax problems, they did, just as did a lot of my old Hollywood cohorts, mega-liberals (almost) all, whose attorneys and business managers urged them the minute they started to strike it the slightest bit rich, or even before, to form a loan-out company for their services to (drastically) reduce their tax bill. If you, by some obscure chance, don’t know what a loan-out company is, look it up. Your dentist probably has one.

And if you’re looking for the very bleeding heart of liberal and progressive hypocrisy, look no further than our tax structure, not to mention the appalling political misuse of our Internal Revenue Service that has yet to be corrected. Just ask Lois Lerner.

Meanwhile we have a tax code that is proverbially the size of the Manhattan telephone directory, not that anyone looks at that anymore. Nevertheless, almost everyone agrees, and has for a long time, that something must be done about this bulbous mess.

Thank Donald Trump again — who introduced his tax plan Monday — for bringing this to our attention. When Donald does something, everyone pays attention, even the aging boys and girls at 60 Minutes. Pro or con, the man is box office. If he doesn’t win the presidency, he should be the anchorman for the evening news on NBC, CBS and ABC simultaneously. He would single-handedly bring back the networks.

But what about his tax plan? It’s not bad, and neither are the less-publicized plans of Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio. All three advocate something that should have been done years ago — lowering the corporate tax rate. That U.S, corporation taxes are among the highest in the world is sheer self-destructive stupidity that only someone as out-of-it as Bernie Sanders could approve. It’s as if we deliberately want to drive our businesses — and jobs — overseas.