July 31, 2004
Quote Of The Moment #0064
We have been told again and again in America we have problems that are so intractable we can't do anything about them. Well, that's the prescription for the end of the United States of America. We started this country on the principle that we don't need King George to tell us what to do. We can solve our own problems. It says in the Preamble to our Constitution that we created this Constitution to promote the general welfare. We can solve every single problem we've had, but we have to be citizens, and we have to do the hard work of maintaining our democracy. The reason we can't solve lots of problems in our society is that we aren't trying. We're hoping somebody else will.
People say to me everywhere I go to speak: Well, how would you fix this? And my answer is: I don't know. Because I'm not God. I'm not omniscient. Here's what I do know: If everybody in America will pay attention to our tax system, and you think how much money you pay in taxes, think about whether it's worth spending less time worrying about who Jennifer Lopez is sleeping with, and more about your tax dollars. If all of us paid attention and listened, and spent some time learning, we would get out of our collective wisdom a tax system that does what a good tax system should do. -- David Cay Johnston
Johnston isn't speaking about War Tax Resistance, but WTR could be an essential tool in achieving tax justice.
Posted by Eddie Tews at July 31, 2004 05:14 PM
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