Grover Cleveland’s Veto Of A Taxpayer-Funded 4th Of July Celebration Holds Important Lesson For Modern Americans – OpEd

By Lawrence W. Reed

When the city council of Buffalo, New York, sent the mayor a measure to fund Fourth of July celebrations in 1882, conventional wisdom suggested that approving it was the politically wise and patriotic thing to do. After all, the money would pay for festivities planned by the Grand Army of the Republic...