patriotism

Every year, millions of Americans celebrate Independence Day by watching fireworks light up the night sky.

Georgia has a one-hundred mile Atlantic sea coast protected by a series of barrier islands called the Golden Isles. A marvelous one-hour documentary about the Golden Isles during World War II is described by the following narrative.

America! For more than two hundred years the word has represented hope, opportunity, a second chance, and freedom. In America the accident of a man’s birth did not serve as an inescapable weight that dictated a person’s fate or that of his family. The individual owned his own life and was free to shape it as his own mind guided him.

America is supposed to be the land of the free, yet it is has one of the most vicious tax regimes in the rich world. Once blessed with comparatively low tax rates and levels of regulation, businesses and entrepreneurs flocked to the United States from the sclerotic systems of Europe (and elsewhere). Now American businesses are fleeing America’s shores and foreign-born entrepreneurs are less inclined to come at all.

Ben Domenech wrote eloquently in 2011 in a piece that moved me. He’s a young guy, but he gets it. He wrote about the Reagan revolution: where it is today and…