As we celebrate the 4th of July, I hope we’ll ponder two things:

• that all across our land, the world’s foremost economy is near bankruptcy, with states unable to pay their bills, while legislators do little or nothing about it 
• and that the nation that was founded by brave men who risked personal insolvency in doing so (Adams’ law practice and his farm suffered from his absence; Jefferson and, ironically, Hamilton, the financial genius who founded history’s most reliable currency, died near penniless) is now run for the benefit of plutocrats who plunder the treasury and manipulate the tax code for their own benefit.

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