This is how the article starts, and it might be somewhat off-topic, but I disagree. Plenty of businesses (at least privately held ones) have the goal of simply making enough for the owners to get by. Not to optimize for the absolute maximum. And why should they be responsible to do so?
You clearly just want to have a convenient source for your frustration and show no interest in actually solving the problem permanently.
> Which checks?
Congress. They pass laws. The administration is bound, by the constitution, to follow those laws and to administrate them with "due care."
> The supreme Court OKed stopping people because they were brown ("Kavanaugh stops") and Congress has lost the power of the purse
What does this have to do with tax law?