'Family gatherings, shopping, movie-going and football were, as ever, the comforting hallmarks of the holiday weekend, but they took place in the shadow of mass shootings, political divisions and economic upheavals,' writes Richard Galant | Opinion
Editor’s Note: Sign up to get this weekly column as a newsletter. We’re looking back at the strongest, smartest opinion takes of the week from CNN and other outlets. In 1789, President George Washington proclaimed the first national holiday of Thanksgiving. He chose a date in late November for people to express gratitude for “the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty,” along with the “civil and religious liberty” that the burgeoning United States of America enjoyed.
” If it is true that Trump has paid little in taxes, he noted, “here is something that all Americans should be able to agree on: something is wrong with a system in which a billionaire can pay no taxes. Either that’s not legal, and someone should be holding him or her to account, or it is legal and the laws should change. We have to better watch the watchdogs enforcing the present law and we have to take a harder look at that law itself.
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