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How the few plunder the many

Ever since the advent of representative government placed the ultimate power to direct the administration of public affairs to the hands of the people, the primary instrument by which the few have managed to plunder the many has been the sophistry that persuades the victims that they are being robbed for their own benefit.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 18, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories taxationTags Arthur Goddard

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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