This Modern World
Greg Saunders at This Modern World expresses a kind of outrage over corporate welfare and greed that I share, but it seems that this is not the kind of issue that galvanizes that famous thing called "public opinion."
Emotions run high over Dubai Ports, but $104 billion in corporate tax breaks that were supposed to repatriate jobs to the US (the second part didn't happen as imagined) doesn't seem capable of setting off any kind of mass outrage in the collective mind against Republicans and their failed tax break policies.
I know the rationale about our collective indifference to corporate malfeasance -- , we're all hoping to be able to take advantage of those tax breaks ourselves one day when we are suddenly transformed into CEO's, but still, I have a really hard time grasping the inability of citizen to react in her own self-interest. Is it because "higher" yearnings for security, nation, the ideal continue to be more affectually compelling?
Emotions run high over Dubai Ports, but $104 billion in corporate tax breaks that were supposed to repatriate jobs to the US (the second part didn't happen as imagined) doesn't seem capable of setting off any kind of mass outrage in the collective mind against Republicans and their failed tax break policies.
I know the rationale about our collective indifference to corporate malfeasance -- , we're all hoping to be able to take advantage of those tax breaks ourselves one day when we are suddenly transformed into CEO's, but still, I have a really hard time grasping the inability of citizen to react in her own self-interest. Is it because "higher" yearnings for security, nation, the ideal continue to be more affectually compelling?
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