SubscribeMark Cuban, famed online entrepreneur and Dallas Mavs owner, had an awesome post this last week on his personal blog. He titled it “The most patriotic thing you can do”. 
Essentially, Mark laid out the idea that the most patriotic thing you could do is to “bust your ass and get rich” (his words, but I couldn’t have said it any better). Basically, you have to look at the “rich is evil” argument like this: the overwhelming majority of taxes in the United States (upward of 70%) are paid by the wealthiest tier of people in America. Additionally, the successful entrepreneurs are the people out there starting companies, creating approximately 60-80% of new jobs in the US in the last decade, according to the Small Business Administration of America (http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/advo/stats/sbfaq.pdf). Additionally, small businesses account for more than half of the GDP and pay nearly 45% of the private sector payroll in the US.
As you can see, “Greed is Good”, as Gordon Gecko famously once said.Go out there, bust your ass, make a ton of money, and then have fun with it. Your fun employs people, and your taxes subsidize government aid programs and our military.
Read the full article here: http://blogmaverick.com/2009/08/13/the-most-patriotic-thing-you-can-do/
