Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Burke states that creating taxes is simple and can be done by incompetent people.
- In plain terms
- Imposing taxes is easy even for unskilled people.
- What can you take from it?
- Taxation is easy to create but hard to do well.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is taxing too easy?
- Who should design tax laws?
Another view
Some complex taxes require real expertise.
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