Charles Littlejohn, a former IRS contractor, is no criminal — he is a hero who has shone a light on the true criminals in our society: the ultra-wealthy tax dodgers.

Littlejohn’s courageous actions in leaking confidential tax information to news outlets like the New York Times and ProPublica have revealed the shocking extent to which the richest Americans exploit loopholes and shady accounting tricks to avoid paying their fair share. These revelations, as the Jacobin article rightly states, “would spark meaningful changes in the tax code” in a functioning democracy.