Columnist Mark Shields: Today‘s Low Taxes Are ’Fundamentally Un-American’
We should probably establish this point early: when someone talks about the government’s “revenues,” he is mainly referring to the government’s ability to tax. So when a syndicated columnist laments the low “revenues,” he’s really lamenting the low taxes. That’s exactly what Mark Shields did on PBS on Friday. And he invoked the term “un-American” to do it.
“But we got 14 and a half percent in revenues,“ Shields said on Friday on ”Inside Washington” while disagreeing with conservative Charles Krauthammer. “That is unsustainable and it’s unacceptable and it’s fundamentally un-American.”
The 14 and a half percent he’s referring to seems to be the 14 and a half percent the government took in tax revenue, as a percentage of GDP
