Were not broke documentary full biography

It’s unlikely that you’ll ever hear Grover Norquist admit it, but Scottish philosopher Adam Smith in his seminal 1776 text, The Wealth of Nations, actually makes an argument in favor of a progressive tax.

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion,” Smith wrote. Laissez-faire adherents happy to adopt Smith’s free market arguments seem to have conveniently forgotten that element of his philosophy over the last 200 years.

In WE’RE NOT BROKE, directors Karin Hayes and Victoria Bruce show how that might finally be changing. The film spells out the effects of a regressive U.S. tax policy so riddled with loopholes that multinational corporations with billions of dollars in annual revenue are some