Your assessment of this as naked politics is purely subjective, and while you're free to voice your opinion on submission quality beyond just hiding it, realize that by policing it with your comment, you're exerting your own politics on HN to an extent.

IMO, this topic has huge intersections with modern tech. From attitudes about US tax reform in the tech community, to means of creating transparency in wealth with tech, to means of aggregating and distributing investigative journalism about such large and complex matters with tech.