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Tax Avoidance is un-American, un-Athenian, Just Plain Uncivilized

Ancient Greece and early America hardly seem like moral paragons today–large parts of both their populations were enslaved. Yet somehow even they had some glimmer of understanding that the comfortable owed their comforts to their broader society. It is jarring when comparing the 1-percenters in ancient Athens and the United States’ very first president to the nation’s 45th who boasted that his ability to avoid paying taxes made him “smart.” His sole responsibility was to make himself and his partners rich, so the argument went, and he claimed to be really good at it. Continue reading... [link removed]


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