“…True patriotism isn’t cheap.
It’s about taking on a fair share of the burdens of keeping America going.
Those who earn tens of millions of dollars a year but pay less than 14 percent of their incomes in taxes – and argue the rich should pay even less – are not true patriots.
Those who defend indefensible tax loopholes, such as the “carried interest” loophole that allows private-equity managers to treat their incomes as capital gains even if they risk no income of their own – are not true patriots.
Those who avoid taxes by putting huge amounts of their earnings into IRAs via foreign tax shelters – are not true patriots.
Those who want to cut programs that benefit the poor — Food stamps, child nutrition, Pell grants, Medicaid — so that they can get a tax cut for themselves and their affluent friends—
- are not true patriots…”
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Robert Reich: True Patriotism | Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics.
