Lago in the Morning

Lago in the Morning

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It Was September 1773...

The Public Advertiser publishes a satirical essay titled Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One written by Benjamin Franklin. An excerpt:

"In laying these Taxes, never regard the heavy Burthens those remote People already undergo, in defending their own Frontiers, supporting their own provincial Governments, making new Roads, building Bridges, Churches and other public Edifices, which in old Countries have been done to your Hands by your Ancestors, but which occasion constant Calls and Demands on the Purses of a new People. Forget the Restraints you lay on their Trade for your own Benefit, and the Advantage a Monopoly of this Trade gives your exacting Merchants. Think nothing of the Wealth those Merchants and your Manufacturers acquire by the Colony Commerce; their encreased Ability thereby to pay Taxes at home; their accumulating, in the Price of their Commodities, most of those Taxes, and so levying them from their consuming Customers: All this, and the Employment and Support of Thousands of your Poor by the Colonists, you are intirely to forget. But remember to make your arbitrary Tax more grievous to your Provinces, by public Declarations importing that your Power of taxing them has no Limits, so that when you take from them without their Consent a Shilling in the Pound, you have a clear Right to the other nineteen. This will probably weaken every Idea of Security in their Property, and convince them that under such a Government they have nothing they can call their own; which can scarce fail of producing the happiest Consequences!

The dimmocrats have harvested it for their party platform. And a shilling per pound?!? That’s only five percent.

Corpus Christi collects the maximum legal local sales tax 8.25%. That rate consists of 6.25% Texas state sales tax , 1.375% Corpus Christi tax and 0.625% Special tax. There is no applicable county tax....Then income, property, gasoline, etc., etc., ad nauseum.

“The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.”

by Mark Twain


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