"Overtaxed people figure out new ways to shelter their income from the government, or they renounce their citizenship."
…and that's where I should have clicked Close Tab. Instead, I read on and am now burdened with the knowledge that Obama is the American Stalin. Also bored! And incompetent!
"For Mr. Shane, asserting 'exceptionalism' is the way American leaders gloss over the ugly realities of a country with (as he sees it) too-high rates of incarceration, military spending, obesity and child poverty."
OT (sorry Alex!) but where is Choire's News Blaster?? I like to start my day by listening to it on loop until I'm ready to put on pants at 10:45a.
"Overtaxed people figure out new ways to shelter their income from the government, or they renounce their citizenship."
…and that's where I should have clicked Close Tab. Instead, I read on and am now burdened with the knowledge that Obama is the American Stalin. Also bored! And incompetent!
Yikes.
Ha ha, they think we want Hillary to be president.
It is pretty to think she could ever win a general election, isn't it?
"For Mr. Shane, asserting 'exceptionalism' is the way American leaders gloss over the ugly realities of a country with (as he sees it) too-high rates of incarceration, military spending, obesity and child poverty."
Because no amount of child poverty is too high!!!