Altogether, humankind had spread over less than one-eighth of the galaxy. Expansion was somewhat self-limiting. The U.S. had not been able to hold a colony at two hundred light-years distance. At fift...
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.
Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Is this Paradise?''I can guarantee you that it isn't,' Jubal assured him. 'My taxes are due this week.
Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of greed is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned—neve...
Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes, his grandmother replies bleakly. Humans don’t live in a vacuum; we’re part of a larger pattern of life.
Failure to use tax money to finance things not liked by the taxpaying public is routinely called ‘censorship.’ If such terminology were used consistently, virtually all of life would be just one long,...
He said that there was death and taxes, and taxes was worse, because at least death didn’t happen to you every year.
For any ranked society, whether a chiefdom or a state, one thus has to ask, why do the commoners tolerate the transfer of the fruits of their hard labor to kleptocrats? This question raised by politic...