There's no point in criminalizing money laundering, extortion, and racketeering either because the real money launderers, extortionists, and racketeers are the mafia and they'll just figure out how to do it anyway.
No point in making murder illegal because people will commit murder anyway.
Hail to the Chief!
Oh and here's the full quote:
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"Just remember, when you're talking about, oh, we're just going to run up the taxes on a certain number of people ... first of all, real rich people figure out how to dodge taxes. And the small-business owners end up paying a lot of the burden of this taxation," Bush said.
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so yes, he is making a statement critical of taxing the rich.