Are you patriotic?
Posted by taxguru on September 18, 2008
Biden calls paying higher taxes a patriotic act – I’ve been fighting this Lefty definition of patriotism all of my career. My driving force has always been this quote from Judge Learned Hand, which Jonah Goldberg has posted in The Corner.
Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the
treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes.
Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone
does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.
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