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Something You'll Never Hear in America

Tommaso Padoa-​Schioppa, Italy’s Min­is­ter of Econ­omy and Finance, in an inter­view with Rai 3’s “In mezz’ora”:

“Anti-tax polemics are irre­spon­si­ble. We should have the courage to say that taxes are a beau­ti­ful and civ­i­lized thing, a way for every­one to con­tribute to indis­pen­si­ble goods like health care, secu­rity, edu­ca­tion, and the environment.”

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