“Public Good”

The title of an article in today’s NYTimes informs us that :


"Pakistan’s Elite Pay Few Taxes"
The article’s opening and self-righteous propagandistic salvo further reveals, accusatorily and without a scintilla of self-analysis, that:

“The lack of a workable tax system feeds an inequality in Pakistani society, where the wealth of its most powerful members is not redistributed or put to use for public good."
Then, I guess  that

• the world’s largest taxpayer funded military budget

• the billions spent on political campaigns

• the world’s 37th ranked health care system

• epidemic and continuous environmental disaster cover ups

• rampant financial frauds

• pervasive predatory lending

• reductions in social services for the elderly

• our subpar public educational system

• our corporate profit driven University system

• our taxpayer funded bailouts

• the maintenance of military bases all over the world

• the maintenance of a health care system that is rated 37th in the world

• the support of sieges of innocent native communities, i.e. native Americans, Palestinians, Haitians…

are all paragons of  PUBLIC GOOD!