"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
One Human’s Taxation is a Tragedy; Three Hundred Million is a Statistic
"When people see that they have to work for two weeks of their year to pay for the healthcare of someone they’ve never met, or for a morning (with luck, probably a Monday) to preserve land they’ll possibly never visit or enjoy, or a full day to pay to fight wars which they may find morally reprehensible, without the choice of refusing, they rightly become angry!"
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