This is where we are challenged politically: how do we pay down the debt while also addressing the climate crises and supporting social safety nets for a large population, tasks that seem to require more government spending and curbed economic growth? The only half-answer I have is that we as a country need remind ourselves taxes are worth paying and tax administration is worth investing in (the tax gap, the difference between taxes owed and taxed paid, is about $600 billion/year).
Good morning, Rev. Cameron. I give you some words planted by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in her novel, Middlemarch. These are the last words of this incredible story written in 1871.
""...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
Imagine Mary Ann's surprise if someone told her that her words would travel into the 21st century and take root on a communication platform she would have never dreamed of!
This is where we are challenged politically: how do we pay down the debt while also addressing the climate crises and supporting social safety nets for a large population, tasks that seem to require more government spending and curbed economic growth? The only half-answer I have is that we as a country need remind ourselves taxes are worth paying and tax administration is worth investing in (the tax gap, the difference between taxes owed and taxed paid, is about $600 billion/year).
Good morning, Rev. Cameron. I give you some words planted by George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) in her novel, Middlemarch. These are the last words of this incredible story written in 1871.
""...for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
Imagine Mary Ann's surprise if someone told her that her words would travel into the 21st century and take root on a communication platform she would have never dreamed of!