The First Rule of Democracy,”The King Does Not Make The Crops Grow.”

One can tax commerce by taxing money, but one can never tax wealth.This does not mean that one should not- It is simply is that it can not be done.

Just as damning a river deprives those down stream of water, so does a taxation scheme deliberately devised to target accumulations of capital necessarily deprive those who need it of work, while, simultaneously, making the basic goods and services they need to survive become more expensive, that is, require more work...

The kind offer of the damn builders to carry water down, and distribute it by hand to the needy, does little to alleviate their distress.