Eleven ways to get $ out of citizens:
“If a government were trying to squeeze as much money as possible out of a population, what would it do? [It would
employ:]1. The use of indirect rather than direct taxes, so that the tax is hidden in the price of goods.
2. Inflation, by which the state reduces the value of everyone else’s currency.
3. Borrowing, so as to postpone the necessary taxation.
4. Gift and luxury taxes, where the tax accompanies the receipt or purchase of something special, lessening the annoyance of the tax. [Soak rich]
5. Temporary taxes, which somehow never get repealed when the emergency passes. . . . .
Etc. Aren’t we glad none of that can happen here?
Blithe Spirit 