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Voltaire says, somewhere, that, 'the art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third'.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot quotes Voltaire to illustrate the inequities in government taxation and benefit distribution.
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