“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.” IfsThinkingGovernmentPoliticalCertainPoliticsWiseSubjectsMastersLibertarianThrivePopularityHelplessHelplessnessDespotsPower GovernmentPower Politics Book:The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction Source: The Dosadi Experiment and The Eyes of Heisenberg: Two Classic Works of Science Fiction
“The subjects of every state ought to contribute toward the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state ....As Henry Home (Lord Kames) has written, a goal of taxation should be to 'remedy inequality of riches as much as possible, by relieving the poor and burdening the rich.'” ShouldStatesHomeGovernmentEnjoyGoalAbilityPoorLordSupportRichWrittenSubjectsOughtEconomicsProtectionLibertarianRichesInequalityProportionRemedyTaxationRevenue Author:Adam Smith