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October 23, 2025

Governments last as long as the under-taxed can defend themselves against the over-taxed.

Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian, The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.22

But who comprises the undertaxed? And who the overtaxed?

Berenson set the cat among the pigeons here, giving no direction as to who is who? But my money is on those poor rich people being the undertaxed.


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