Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general, bats have it made.
Excise. A hateful tax levied upon commodities.
Given that the deepest problem with the US economy is slow productivity growth, it is difficult to argue for tax increasesthat might reduceincentives Thereseemsto Kuhn be a public consensus that Donald Trump is the price of progress.
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
I wish the Government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. 794
It gave me a great notion of the credit of our present government and administration, to find people press as eagerly to pay moneyas they would to receive it; and, at the same time, a due respect for that body of men who have found out so pleasing an expedient for carrying on the common cause, that they have turned a tax into a diversion.
It is a maxim of cryptology that what one man can devise, another can unravel. This principle keeps armies of tax lawyers and accountants employed, but adds nothing to our national productivity.
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