Governance

08/30/05 – Flor⁠i⁠da Taxpayers and ⁠t⁠he Plucked Goose

By: The James Madison Institute / August 30, 2005

Governance

August 30, 2005

The finance minister for France’s King Louis XIV had it right: “The art of taxation,” said Jean-Baptiste Colbert, “consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the smallest amount of hissing.”