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.”
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.”
