Mercy Not Sacrifice
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"Patriotic millionaires" call for their tax cuts to expire - Joe Conason - Salon.com
This begs the question as to what defines "patriotism." I read a quote years ago that says, "A real patriot is someone who receives a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works." Here are some people who know that they are able to help finance our public systems, and now they are choosing to be willing to do so as well.
In the opposite camp, the blind contempt for government that many Americans have is, IMO, completely unpatriotic. How can you claim to love a society yet hate its governing body? Again, it's like the man who tells his wife that he loves her so much, he wants to divorce her. Such a claim is illogical at best and bitterly cruel at worst. Yet so many Americans do the exact same thing, when they say that they wouldn't dream of doing what these millionaires are doing!
This begs the question as to what defines "patriotism." I read a quote years ago that says, "A real patriot is someone who receives a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works." Here are some people who know that they are able to help finance our public systems, and now they are choosing to be willing to do so as well.
In the opposite camp, the blind contempt for government that many Americans have is, IMO, completely unpatriotic. How can you claim to love a society yet hate its governing body? Again, it's like the man who tells his wife that he loves her so much, he wants to divorce her. Such a claim is illogical at best and bitterly cruel at worst. Yet so many Americans do the exact same thing, when they say that they wouldn't dream of doing what these millionaires are doing!